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MediaTomb support for SongBook

February 20th, 2009 0

I’ve had a number of people ask me if SongBook will support MediaTomb. I’ve been doing some testing and have made some progress.

I installed MediaTomb from source on a Mac OS X Server, it is considerably easier if you have a linux machine, you can just install the packages with your package manager.

Depending on where you install from you may need to edit the config.xml file. I’m not going to go in to great detail here, I assume that if you are wanting to play around with MediaTomb you have enough technical skills to do what is required.

My config.xml had a mapping for flac files missing. In the mappings section under extension-mimetype I added this line:


<map from="flac" to="audiovideo/x-flac"/>

Also I removed this line:


<transcode mimetype="audio/x-flac" using="oggflac2raw"/>

Then I recompiled with taglib support, but you probably don’t need to do that :-) . I then rebuilt the MediaTomb database too.

That got me further, I could now browse the music tree with MediaTomb. I couldn’t play a track though. That turned out to be a bug in SongBook. I was not entity-escaping the URL sent to the DS. That doesn’t matter with twonky because there are no & characters in the URL, but there are in MediaTomb URL’s. Simple one-line fix though.

End result is that with the next version of SongBook, version 1.2 you will be able to use MediaTomb if you want.

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