2009-06-12 06:15:52 -04:00
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forked-daapd
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forked-daapd is a DAAP and RSP media server for Linux. It is a complete
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rewrite of mt-daapd (Firefly Media Server).
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DAAP stands for Digital Audio Access Protocol, and is the protocol used
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by iTunes and friends to share/stream media libraries over the network.
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RSP is Roku's own media sharing protocol. Roku are the makers of the
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SoundBridge devices. See <http://www.roku.com>.
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forked-daapd is a temporary name that should change to something else if
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someone can come up with a good name for it.
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Supported clients
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forked-daapd supports iTunes clients as well as a number of devices similar
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to the SoundBridge.
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It should be able to serve your media library to any client supporting DAAP
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or RSP.
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A single forked-daapd instance can handle several clients concurrently,
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regardless of the protocol.
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Supported formats
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forked-daapd should support pretty much all media formats. It uses ffmpeg to
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extract metadata and decode the files on the fly when the client doesn't
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support the format.
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However, ffmpeg is not necessarily very good at extracting metadata, so some
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formats may cause problems. FLAC, Musepack and WMA use custom metadata
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extractors to work around that.
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Formats are attributed a code, so any new format will need to be explicitely
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added. Currently supported:
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- MPEG4: mp4a, mp4v
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- AAC: alac
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- MP3 (and friends): mpeg
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- FLAC: flac
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- OGG VORBIS: ogg
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- Musepack: mpc
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- WMA: wma (WMA Pro), wmal (WMA Lossless), wmav (WMA video)
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- AIFF: aif
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- WAV: wav
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Playlists
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forked-daapd supports M3U playlists. Just drop your playlist somewhere in
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your library with an .m3u extension and it will pick it up.
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2009-11-28 05:01:22 -05:00
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Support for iTunes Music Library XML format is available as a compile-time
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option. By default, metadata from our parsers is preferred over what's in
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the iTunes DB; use itunes_overrides = true if you prefer iTunes' metadata.
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2009-06-12 06:15:52 -04:00
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Smart playlists are not supported at the moment.
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Library
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The library is scanned in bulk mode at startup, but the server will be
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available even while this scan is in progress. Of course, if files have gone
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missing while the server was not running a request for these files will
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produce an error until the scan has completed and the file is no longer
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offered. Similarly, new files added while the server was not running won't
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be offered until they've been scanned.
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Changes to the library are reflected in real time after the initial scan. The
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directories are monitored for changes and rescanned on the fly.
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Symlinks are supported and dereferenced. This does interact in tricky ways
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with the above monitoring and rescanning, so you've been warned. Changes to
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symlinks themselves won't be taken into account, or not the way you'd expect.
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If you use symlinks, do not move around the target of the symlink. Avoid
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linking files, as files themselves aren't monitored for changes individually,
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so changes won't be noticed unless the file happens to be in a directory that
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is monitored.
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Bottom line: symlinks are for directories only.
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