Having bought the Western Digital My Book World NAS HDD 1TB I wanted to setup the Firefly mt-daapd service my music library and share it to my iPhone via my home WIFI..
so, here is what I did:
DAAP NAS Setup
- Set your router to assign it a static IP
- Fire up your web browser open up the IP to your WD HDD, you will see WD admin panel, login with your/default login details (in the manual)
- Under Advanced > Media > iTunes: enable the iTunes service
- Fire up your browser to http://[your NAS IP]:3689 (default iTunes daap port) to open up the Firefly GUI
iPhone DAAP connection:
Its a real shame that iPhone/iPod cannot natively connect to shared daap libraries (inc iTunes shared libraries).
It took me a while to find this fantastic iPhone/iPod native app called Simple DAAP Client by magnet-magic.com. Download it free in the Apple store.
Connect to the WIFI router from the iPhone and launch the app. On launch, Simple DAAP Client will scan the network and display a list of DAAP servers on the network. Connect up and enjoy your music.
App description from magnet-magic.com
Simple DAAP Client is Music Streaming Client application based on Digital Audio Access Protocol(DAAP).It can connect to DAAPD Server as mt-daapd, receives streaming musics.
But it does not support connecting to iTunes , because connecting to iTunes is needed special validation.
iPhone DAAP Demo by www.magnet-magic.com
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2 comments
8th Nov, 10
I cant get it to work on my iphone 4... i get (-1004) error but everything works from my android phone so the problem is in the app i think
14th Jan, 11
Thanks for your post! Finally found something that works.
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