I've often used amarok (1) to connect to non-advertised daap shares -- for example, stuff that's not on the local network.  I used to be able to do that with the "media devices" interface.  Amarok 2 seems to have added support for automatically detecting advertised daap shares.  That's nice.  But I can't figure out how to get to my non-advertised ones now.  Did the option move someplace else?  Or was it removed?

I am a new user of amarok2 and I have this problem. How can it be solved?

Hi!

I am looking for an answer of the same problem. That was a feature I was using to listen from work to the music files on my home server.
Can a developper tell us if the implementation of this feature is planned?

And by the way, thanks for the great job!

Best regards,

Cédric

Hi again,

I found today a solution to overcome this problem. It involves not playing with amarok, but with avahi, which is the daemon advertising DAAP servers.

Here is the link I followed: http://forums.rokulabs.com/viewtopic.ph ... b71f0ff255

I created a file /etc/avahi/services/firefly.service and added a line in /etc/hosts, as recommended in that thread.

Now I can see the music from my home server at work. Nice! I hope it will work for you as well !

Best,

Cédric

P.S: it might be more correct to add the IP address of the remote server not in /etc/hosts but in /etc/avahi/hosts.

I'm trying to do the same and after I put firefly.service in place, avahi-daemon reports in syslog:

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Failed to add service 'Firefly on myserv' of type '_rsp._tcp', ignoring service group (/etc/avahi/services/firefly.service): Not supported

Any idea why?

atrox wrote:I'm trying to do the same and after I put firefly.service in place, avahi-daemon reports in syslog:

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Failed to add service 'Firefly on myserv' of type '_rsp._tcp', ignoring service group (/etc/avahi/services/firefly.service): Not supported

Aha, looks like "domain-name" has to be "local", no matter where my server actually resides.

But it seems that Amarok2 cannot see DAAP-server with password. Is there any way to set a password for remote DAAP in Amarok?