Share Music in a Network using Avahi (DAAP) September 22, 2006
Posted by Carthik in applications, guides, music, packages, ubuntu.trackback
Okay, so I have a desktop with around 50 Gigs of music. I also have a laptop on which I work most of the time, from various places in and around the house. I did not want to (and don’t have the space to) copy the songs onto the Laptop. So I went looking for a simple way to share my music over the Network.
I found that rhythmbox supports DAAP, the same technology that Apple uses with iTunes to enable sharing.
To enable sharing, install the avahi daemon on the desktop using:
$sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon
Now, in Rhythmbox, go to Edit->Preferences->Sharing(which is a tab) and select “Share my music”.
Avahi is the name of the project that brings DAAP (aka rendezvous or zeroconf) to Linux.
You’re all set! Now when you use Rhtyhmbox on the laptop, or any other system in your network, the music collection on the desktop should appear when you start it up in the “Source” pane on the left! Og’s post was one of the many pages I hit when I was searching for a solution. He even has a screenshot showing how the shared directory shows up.
If you want to share music using Banshee, install the banshee-daap package which provides a plugin for DAAP music sharing.
The only caveat is, even when you use this, Rhythmbox has to be running on your desktop for the files to show up elsewhere. If that bothers you, then see how Tangerine can help you. From the website, we get the following description:
Tangerine is an application that allows you to publish music over the local network, using DAAP. It runs on both Linux and Windows. There are several clients that you can then use to connect to it, such as Apple’s iTunes, Banshee, and Rhythmbox.
Music files can be specified either by a directory, or can be automatically discovered using Beagle or Google Desktop. Recently you can also specify which music player you use and share the songs in it’s collection. For typical configurations, a graphical tool is included (see below).
As far as I know, the stable version of Amarok, my favorite music manager, does not have any support for DAAP, either as a server(for the desktop) or as a client(for other computers to access shared stuff).
Ubuntu Blog 
The latest version of Amarok features daap-client. Grab it form backports on kubuntu site.
Instead of tangerine you can also use mt-daapd, which is a flexible daemon not written in C# that will also share files in the background.
http://www.mt-daapd.org/
DAAP is not rendezvous/zeroconf(/bonour).
DAAP announces itself using bonjour (formerly rendezvous and a.k.a. zeroconf), but then so does Apache if you run the bonjour module.
If you are willing to give up DAAP, MPD is a good choice.
Seconded for mt-daapd, and it’s apt-get’able. Running on my headless server, providing music to my desktop & laptop.
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Check my easy HowTo on my blog on setting up MT-DAAPD on UBuntu.
http://dotnet.org.za/matt/articles/48417.aspx
Is possible to use this with Amarok?
Whismaster,
Try this: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Music_Sharing
I have never gotten Banshee’s, LimeWire’s nor iTunes’ DAAP to talk to each other. I only seam to get them to talk to matching clients. Banshee talks to Banshee and LimeWire talks to LimeWire… iTunes does not talk to any other software’s use of DAAP.
It is a shame that they do not work together properly.
I’ve always have trouble with daap and rhythmbox & firestarter. I found this solution from a blog beacuse. Is a fix in the iptables. It cannot be done from the firestarter GUI, this because firestarter doesn’t suppport opening mDNS. You have to edit:
/etc/firestarter/user-pre
then add the following lines
$IPT -A INPUT -p udp –dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT
$IPT -A OUTPUT -p udp –dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT
Just to report: I have tried Banshee, Rhythmbox, and Amarok with Avahi and neither can successfully communicate with iTunes/Mac. The names on the server will show up but there will be no music inside. Amarok fails with “Permission denied”. Still searching for an answer.
Nice 1, this worked a treat for sharing music at work.
Thanks!
Instead of using these, i’ve enabled a GNUMP3D server in our network so everyone can stram MP3s as radio on any application, win/linux/mac …
MP3 and OGG repo is updatable by everyone from an anonymous ftp access
How can I save files which have been shared by others using DAAP?
Thanks
Instead of tangerine you can also use mt-daapd, which is a flexible daemon not written in C# that will also share files in the background.
http://www.wezp.com
thanks for the info on tangerine, works fine, only thing I could get to.
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Can the gnump3d server be advertised using avahi somehow?
itunes 7 and up encrypts it’s share and will only talk to other itunes 7 and higher clients. Use iTumes 6 or one of the linux programs as your daap server instead of iTunes 7.
Works fine one way -> rhythmbox to iTunes running on Mac. On Linux, I can see the Mac, but see no music for the connection although it’s shared on the other side. I think iTunes 7 is used.
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This seems to be EXACTLY what I need! My laptop runs WinXP with iTunes. I also need to be able to add a few songs to my laptop in case i want to leave the house. Is there some pain-in-the-a…. protection preventing this?
Hi
Do you think DAAP is the key to getting the Apple TV to recognize media on a Linux computer? I would be indebted to the person who helps me figure that out.
Shanereiser, i think Avahi is the method you are looking for.
You can find it on :
http://www.zaphu.com/2008/04/29/ubuntu-guide-configure-avahi-to-broadcast-services-via-bonjour-to-mac-os-x/
Rinse – I’ll be looking into Avahi tonight. Thanks for your help.
so how do you to this backwards? the mp3s on a windows box, trying to play on ubuntu?
Awesome, thanks so much, I’m listening to my music now remotely and without all the traffic of trying to index it over the network. Fantastic.
If you are willing to give up DAAP, MPD is a good choice.
Seconded for mt-daapd, and it’s apt-get’able. Running on my headless server, providing music to my desktop & laptop.
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so how do you to this backwards? the mp3s on a windows box, trying to play on ubuntu?
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MPD is a good choice
up, that right
yeay!! thats right
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