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[joelgoodman]

I've seen other people having this issue with various media servers. Wanted to bring it up to the developers'/community's attention here just in case there's a fix I don't know about.

basically iTunes 10 won't load any of the shared media from the NAS, shows a few folders and "untitled playlist" but no actual media.

[alan3885]

I am also experiencing the same problem I click on my NAS under the "Shared" section and It says Loading "NAS".... and then nothing shows up everything is empty/blank. I hope D-Link gets this resolved asap. 

[Magick72]

Same issues here... I thought it was just me.. kinda glad it's not

[JoeSchmuck]

Why would someone think this was a D-Link issue?  It worked fine for all versions of iTunes prior to version 10.  Maybe someone should be bugging Apple.

-Joe

[andrew*debbie]

Why would someone think this was a D-Link issue?  It worked fine for all versions of iTunes prior to version 10. 

Does Apple make the iTunes sharing protocol public?   In any case Apple does not have to guarantee backward compatibility for 3rd party hardware.   We also don't know where the fault lies.   Could be there has always been a bug in the D-link software but it happened to work anyway with older versions of iTunes.

[JoeSchmuck]

True, Apple doesn't need to ensure backwards compatability but it's smart business to ensure backwards compatability.  Also, my NAS has worked fine since at least version 7 that I know of.  I guess someone could take a look at other NAS or iTunes servers to see if any of them stopped working.

It would be nice if this drove a new firmware update so we could have some of those other features many of us still desired, but I'm not holding my breath.

[andrew*debbie]

I've done a little research.   DLink uses open source mt-daapd for the iTunes server.   

As far as I can tell, there hasn't been any work on that project in ages. For awhile it was reborn as FireFly but that appears to be dead too

http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:firefly


Dunno if FireFly is going to work with iTunes 10 either.   


http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/


There is at least one bug posted against FireFly that iTunes 9 broke it.

[andrew*debbie]

Came accross this related article.   Confirms that d-link is using a reverse engineered work around.  Don't look to Apple to issue a fix.  Best hope is someone in the open source community picks this up.   Even then it might never show up in an offical release from D-Link. 



http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/09/09/apple_working_together_with_bridgeco_to_launch_airplay.html

[JoeSchmuck]

Well that sucks.  I know my daughter used the iTunes server on my NAS periodically, but I guess not any more.

I asked for the 1.03 firmware source code last year and the only thing I was provided by D-Link was the original firmware.  D-Link is required to provide the open source code but I think it's gonna take someone writing them an actual paper letter to get the code.  Then we could update it appropriately.

[andrew*debbie]

A tiny bit of hope:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/09/denons-avr-4311ci-to-gain-airplay-compatibility-this-fall-th/

[fejj]

I just wanted to post a few observations of mine about the iTunes/sharing issue.

1st off, I've got a DNS-321, ver A2 with 1.03 firmware.

I have 3 machines I'm currently running iTunes on. 2 are WinXP 32 bit (a desktop running WinXP pro and a laptop running WinXP MCE...yeah, I know, it's really pro too) and a laptop running Win7 64bit Premium. The two laptops both have iTunes ver 10.0.1.22, and the desktop is running 9.2.1.4.

Reading the posts here and elsewhere I fully expected the two machines running 10.0.1.22 to not be able to read my iTunes share on my brandy spankin new, just configured DNS-321. To my surprise, the XP laptop running iTunes 10.0.1.22 reads and streams the NAS share just fine, as does my XP desktop running iTunes 9.2.1.4. The Win7 laptop, however, can't seem to see either the share on my DNS-321 OR on either of my two XP machines. Oddly enough, I can view the iTunes share on my Win7 laptop from either or my XP machines.

I've reinstalled iTunes 10.0.1.22 on my Win7 64bit laptop, and get the same result; I can't see any shares, but my 2 other machines can see the shares on it. Seems like an Apple/iTunes problem to me.