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2006-09-14, 23:18
(This post was last modified: 2006-09-14, 23:19 by aussieboi21.)
Hi Guys,
Updated my Mac to iTunes 7 yesterday and now XBMC can't connect to the share. Has anyone else noticed this?
I have also noticed that it can't download movie trailers from the Apple site anymore.
Any ideas how long a fix for these will be?
Thanks!
Luke.
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Yes, it is a known issue.
I believe you can't connect to an iTunes 7 share using an older version of iTunes either, so they must have changed <something> in the connection protocols.
Someone needs to sniff the network traffic connecting between iTunes 7 and iTunes 6 and vice-versa, and between iTunes 6 and iTunes 6, and iTunes 7 and iTunes 7 and document the process.
My understanding is it's all done with HTTP requests with certain key items in the headers.
Without this documentation, a fix is unlikely to arise. Unless Apple has a bug in v7 which they fix ofcourse (unlikely).
Cheers,
Jonathan
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I have also found the same thing using the mac version of iTunes 7... it's hard to say what they did with it, but I can tell you that iTunes 7 is hardly a finished product... for the first time in a long while, Apple has pushed something out the door before it was ready, a la, Microsoft-style. There are literally dozens of problems with the application both on Macs and PCs.
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2006-09-15, 18:06
(This post was last modified: 2006-09-15, 18:08 by corrigann.)
Hello, I am having the same problems with my setup, iTunes 7 simply refuses to share to older versions of iTunes and XBMC. If you want to there is a workaround to sharing your music with a SMB share. You can set up a Share using Sharepoints or some other type of folder sharing software. After it is set up you can modify your sources.xml file in XBMC with a bookmark like this:
<bookmark>
<name>iTunes Share (SMB)</name>
<path>smb://username(colon)password@ipaddress/name of share/</path>
</bookmark>
I'm not going to post on how to use Sharepoints as there are hundreds of places out there to figure it out, but this will allow you access to your music. Only thing is you won't be able to share all your iTunes playlists, but it works as a temporarily solution.
Hopefully iTunes gets overhauled ASAP, it's looking pretty beta.
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Same problem here.
I think it might be to do with the fact that iTunes now has multiple libraries, not just one anymore. There would probably have to be some reference that we now need to supply xbmc to point to the right library.
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monitron, that's actually a misnomer about iTunes 7, all the metadata is still held in one database/library. iTunes 7 simply reads that data and separates it on the UI into types of media such as shows, music, movies... I am still trying to figure out why they are referring to this as "multiple libraries" when it's really just a change in the way the information from the single library is displayed. It is possible to manage multiple libraries in iTunes (and has been for a couple of versions) by holding down the option key on your mac when launching the application.
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I believe they're talking about playing from the slimserver to iTunes, not the other way around.
The authentication routine has changed.
Note that iTunes 6 can't connect to an iTunes 7 share, but iTunes 7 can quite happily connect to an iTunes 6 share.
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I don't have time to read all about it, but from a quick scan, it seems pretty clear it's using the iTunes xml database to get the song details, not using the DAAP protocol to share the tunes at all.
ie the slimserver software scans the underlying music files (and iTunes xml database file) and uses that to stream the files. People are just using iTunes to organise them - not to stream.
This is quite different than what XBMC is doing - XBMC acts as an iTunes client - all the streaming is handled by iTunes. Apple has changed the authentication (again) to try and stop this behaviour.
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Any idea when we will see a fix to get XBMC working with iTunes 7? Seems something is wrong now with this new version of iTunes, can it be fixed?