HOW-TO access your Apple iTunes library from within XBMC

Gamester17 Wrote:Can't you simply replace "your_IP" with "localhost"?

Yes you can.

This should not only work with XBMC for Mac OS X, but for XBMC for Xbox, and XBMC for Linux over the network as well, right?

...and it should (in theory) also work with iTunes installed under Mac OS X as well as iTunes installed under Microsoft Windows, correct?

I mean, Apple iTunes is available for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, and Firefly Media Server is also available for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, and all XBMC versions have a build-in DAAP client.

PS! Would anyone of you who have tried this care to write a 'HOW-TO' article for this in our wiki (XBMC Online Manual)?
Like so => http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...ction=edit


oh, and just FYI I do not use iTunes myself

Any idea why we can't just connect to iTunes' music sharing feature directly? Isn't that using DAAP?

Apple changed to a new proprietary protocol/communication-scheme between iTunes 6.x and iTunes 7.x but did not release any public specifications of those changes, therefor the is currenly no open source DAAP-client which supports connecting to iTunes 7.x ...you can not even connect to a iTunes 7.x library from iTunes 6.x running on a other computer, which cleary states the fact that it is not backwards-compatible at all.

You can read more about that here => http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=25097

Blame Apple for not supporting FOSS, ...and people complain about Microsoft, Apple is just as bad IMO.

SO this is great. I'm just having some growing pains setting this up.
I started up firefly, and then switched over to XBMC. I was able to successfully set up the connection>

Initially I was getting all the playlists, however, there were no songs in the playlists. Now when I connect I just get a subfolder called "Library" which is empty.

I went in the firefly server web page. I can see that it's still loading the songs but it states that it has scanned 5000+ songs however none of them are showing up in XBMC. I only get the "Library" sub folder, which is empty.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

So I've tried using the firefly solution, however, I ditched using it. Everytime I rebooted my computer it had to rescan my mp3's before it was available to use. I don't know if there is a firefly fix for that.

I ended up scanning in my mp3's and that works really well actually. I don't have playlist support, or album art yet.

Anyone know of a way to create an M3U playlist from itunes?

My solution is just to sync over my music weekly, and preferably my playlists weekly. Thanks.

@zyprexa

Do you sync over your playlists from iTunes and use them with OSXBMC? If so where do you sync them to?

My music is scanned in alright but there is no album artwork or playlists. I am assuming the devleopers haven't got there yet. Because there is a option in the music settings to download artwork during the library scan. However it doesn't seem to work.

cheers

jhoulden Wrote:Because there is a option in the music settings to download artwork during the library scan. However it doesn't seem to work.

Make sure you create a ticket for this... It's the best way to get it fixed.

Quick question probably but I didn't find the answer searching the forums.

I went to add daap to my sources.xml in /Application Support/XBMC/userdata/sources.xml

I added the following lines:

<source>
<name>iTunes Network Share (DAAP)</name>
<path>daap://192.168.1.185</path>
</source>
<source>
<name>Firefly Network Share (DAAP)</name>
<path>daap://192.168.1.250</path>
</source>

To the music section as per:

http://www.xbmc.org/wiki/?title=ITunes_%28DAAP%29

I rebooted the aTV and the changes never take effect, I re-check the file and its the original. Is there something automatically restoring the file to the original state?

Thank you in advance.

Welcome to the forums.

You read the "itunes and XBMC" paragraph?