Comments on: How to fix a dying QNAP iTunes server

By: dan

dan — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:38:07 +0000

Nice post. Makes for and easy fix

By: Philippe

Philippe — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:44:31 +0000

Hi,

I’ve troubles with al lot of files, which seems normal as eg:

Adding /share/MD0_DATA/Multimedia/Music/MP3/Anita Baker/Onbekend album/Sweet Love.mp3
Segmentation fault

Does anyone have an idea?

Philippe

By: Ian Powell

Ian Powell — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:04:48 +0000

Thanks this highlighted which file was causing the service to die. I deleted the file also.

Big thanks

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:52:26 +0000

you beauty. fixed an ongoing itunes server issue with my QNAP TS-419P Turbo. great work

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:15:08 +0000

Well done! The only place I found a answer/fix to the most annoying problem with my new NAS!

Thanks.

By: Joe Hay

Joe Hay — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:57:11 +0000

Thanks a million! Top tip. I was pulling my hair out with moving files backwards and forwards to find the culprit. Found it straight away with this. No idea what’s wrong with the file. Will try re-endcoding and putting it back in.

Thanks again!

By: Lennart

Lennart — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:23:07 +0000

Good walkthrough! I also found Itunes disconnecting on some m3u’s. Just deleted them.

But now when I make a smart playlist in the Qnap admin interface I get the same problem (although no m3u’s are created). Running Itunes 10.3.1.55
Stupid Apple..

By: corelgott

corelgott — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:18:39 +0000

just in the case that anybody beside me runs into this: My iTunes sees my Lib on the qnap but when I click it, itunes deselects the qnap lib after a second or so and jumps back to my local library.

The fix described, deleting/renaming some of my music wasn’t my favorit option… You know… deleting stuff…

As it turnes out (thx for the verbose forground cmd) my mt-daapd is unable to process not my files but some of my m3u files and resets the connection. Mt-daapd doesn’t seem to crash but it’s enought for iTunes to drop the connection.

I was able to fix this by changing a line the qnaps /etc/mt-daapd.conf

turing: process_m3u 1 => process_m3u 0

Restarted the service and everything worked like a charm.

Cheers Corelgott

Ps.: for anybody wanting to get serious into the debugging the protocol… http://tapjam.net/daap/ helped me alot

By: idmanager

idmanager — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:36:35 +0000

would just like to say that its the ` in the file name thats the problem not the o to set up a itunes server on any qnap just copy your itunes folder to qmedia folder and tick the server in qnap control panel easy..

By: micsaund

micsaund — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:48:21 +0000

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

Alan, I was using Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB drives and recently (about 2 months ago) swapped in a pair of Spinpoint F4 2TB drives. I’ve been exceptionally happy with the Spinpoint drives and would recommend them. Microcenter had the 2TB on sale for $99 each when I bought them, and they can be had for a few bucks less since then.