Fireflymediaserver and Amarok

2007-10-04

Permalink 09:36:22, by jaervosz Email , 165 words, 810 views   English (EU)
Categories: Gentoo, Universe/English

Fireflymediaserver and Amarok

At work I've been trying to get Amarok (on Kubuntu) to play music from my home server via stunnel and mt-daapd at home.

Somehow it always fails with (or some other random port number):

Error Loading Media
No suitable input plugin. This often means that the URL's protocol is not supported. Network failures are other possible causes.
http://localhost:55824/daap.mp3

I'm not sure why it lists thoose port numbers as it is supposed to just use the stunnel port...

It appears that my problem is already filed in upstream bug #12077.

Just for the fun of it I created a similar setup on my laptop running Gentoo and tested it while away from my LAN and to my suprise? it just worked :)

Update: As of 20080123 I discovered that someone had posted the solution on the bug. It turns out that the problem is KDE using privoxy as HTTP proxy. So I just added 127.0.0.1 to servers to connect directly to and it worked like a charm.

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Fireflymediaserver and Amarok :  Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
Well, the problem is probably the old Amarok/xine interaction bug I fixed myself some time ago :) You can't of course expect certain distribution to check whether the versions of backends and frontends are compatible one with the other, no?

The reason why it has such a strange URL is because Amarok uses a ruby "proxy" to access DAAP (and last.fm, although with recent xine-lib and Amarok versions, last.fm plays transparently) that is running on that port.

Remember: if you have doubts about Amarok or xine, just mail me first :D

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Comment from: Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò [Visitor] Email · http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
Well, the problem is probably the old Amarok/xine interaction bug I fixed myself some time ago :) You can't of course expect certain distribution to check whether the versions of backends and frontends are compatible one with the other, no?

The reason why it has such a strange URL is because Amarok uses a ruby "proxy" to access DAAP (and last.fm, although with recent xine-lib and Amarok versions, last.fm plays transparently) that is running on that port.

Remember: if you have doubts about Amarok or xine, just mail me first :D

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