AirTunes - forked-daapd and Airport Express

One small issue one can run into after installing forked-daapd is that using the iPhone/iPad remote one cannot play any songs.

Looking in /var/opt/forked-daapd.log one will see something:

[2011-04-14 11:24:59] laudio: Could not open playback device: No such file or directory
[2011-04-14 11:24:59] player: Could not open local audio
[2011-04-14 11:24:59] dacp: Could not start playback

The reason for this issue is that the device one is trying to send the output to is not know to forked-daapd, or it is not selected by default.

The way to solve this is;

1) install sqlite3 tools
2) use bonjour browser, find the id of the device which will be in HEX, then use the Calculator to convert it into binary.
3) stop forked-daapd (/etc/init.d/forked-daapd stop)
4) open the database with sqlite3:
# sqlite3 /var/cache/forked-daapd/songs3.db
sqlite> insert into speakers (, 1, 100);
sqlite> update speakers
... set selected = 0
... where id = 0;
.exit
5) start forked-daapd (/etc/init.d/forked-daapd start)

And now in Remote it should be possible to play songs.

Comments

demck85 said…
Where else could on find the device ID from?
June 14, 2011 at 8:37 PM
casper said…
As far as I remember it will automatically get in there if you try to choose a different set of speakers through the iPhone Remote.

Also as far as I remember the device ID is a decimal representation of the network mac address.
June 15, 2011 at 12:50 AM
la_tristesse said…
Could you explain the steps more deepfully. I'm running Snow Leopard (10.6.7) and a plug pc with debian squeeze. I dont get how to find the id and convert them. Is there a similiar tool under Mac OS X? Would appreciate your help.
June 15, 2011 at 2:00 AM
hk said…
Could you please give an example of
a) what such an ID might look like in the Bonjour browser (screenshot?)
b) how to convert it to binary

I have everything else set up but I am stuck at exactly this point :(

Thanks.
June 28, 2011 at 7:04 AM
hk said…
Could you please give an example of
a) what such an ID might look like in the Bonjour browser (screenshot?)
b) how to convert it to binary

I have everything else set up but I am stuck at exactly this point :(

Thank you very much!
June 28, 2011 at 7:06 AM
casper said…
Sorry, don't have time to figure out what I actually did to get the Airport Express into the database.

Follow the documentation (README) for forked-daapd, and search on the internet.
July 2, 2011 at 5:21 PM
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