Open pztrn opened 7 years ago
Confirming on Rhythmbox on Debian 9 - same behaviour.
Yes, forked-daapd is not able to stream radio stations to iTunes, and that is why it is not shown in the playlist. The documentation could be more clear on that, I admit.
I will consider adding this ability, but the reason it has not been a priority because I would think for most people it is easier to just add the radio station directly to iTunes?
Yes and no - I will be happy to listen radio in iTunes and, if neccessary, switch to, for example, HTPC on Linux (which also accesses audio via DAAP).
And, moreover, maybe it's iTunes "feature" - only first item from radio playlist will be used, others are ignored :(
I'm already using forked-daap for music streaming and hoping I'll be also able to stream radio with it :)
You can of course have forked-daapd stream radio with Remote or an mpd client (so not daap), but perhaps you already knew that.
If you could elaborate a bit on the setup you are going for then please do.
Yes, already know that.
My setup is: listen to radio with iTunes from DAAP playlist (as well as other players that supports DAAP). Is that forked-daap limitation, or iTunes (and other players) will not allow that in any case? They're (iTunes and Rhythmbox for example) showing empty playlist for radio URLs.
The empty playlist is a result of this. Since you built yourself, you can modify it and just let the function return, in which case the playlists should no longer be empty.
However, I don't think playback of the stream in iTunes will work. With daap, forked-daapd serves the file to the client, and since this is not a file it will likely fail (not sure exactly how...).
EDIT Here is the correct link: https://github.com/ejurgensen/forked-daapd/blob/master/src/httpd_daap.c#L531
I'll elaborate on my setup and why this would be incredibly useful for me.
I've got 5 airplay speakers set up throughout the house. Historically I've been using iTunes to listen to DI.fm and broadcast the single stream to all the speakers in the house. I was hoping to do the same with forked-daapd as I'm now on Linux instead of Windows for the main audio server machine.
I'd love to be able to fully replace iTunes with forked-daapd if possible.
@thekevinbrown this issue is about radio stations not being served to iTunes (so OP would still be using iTunes). I think what you are looking for should already be supported.
I will rename the issue to make it more clear what it is about.
@ejurgensen I'll lodge a different issue in that case.
As title says, it have problems. To be more specific - latest iTunes on 10.12.6 shows nothing in playlist, but it is added to database.
This problem appears on 24.2 from Debian 9 and on 25.0 which was manually compiled. Tested with two types of playlists - with one stream and two streams, both AAC 128k and MP3 320k. Debug output: