Monthly Archives: March 2013

I've been very happy with Ubuntu for quite some time – moving through its various versions before settling on Xubuntu for my laptop because I loath Unity and Gnome was getting as bad, and Kubuntu seemed to have apps crashing … Continue reading →

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Two of the Android Apps (DAAP and SharePlay) are quite able to crash it. Luckily I can just ssh onto the server and restart it and with the db_rebuild level set to 2 it only takes a few minutes (as … Continue reading →

Forked-Daapd Success!  Well its now working I think – 4 levels of DB rebuild from completely rebuild every time to do absolutely nothing every time (handy for totally static collections). Right now I'm doing a complete DB rebuild as I've messed … Continue reading →

it hasn't. I  can have the DB do a complete rebuild at start or just do a rescan but the other options for the moment don't work. This is because its dispatching processes and so my flag variables are getting … Continue reading →

Well the crash course in Git and some head scratching as I tried to remember what little C skills I have has paid off. I've now got a modified and working Forked-Daapd server running and its all stored in GitGub. … Continue reading →

Went mad and decided to try to fix some of the problems in the now unsupported forked-daapd application in Ubuntu 12.0.4 C is not my forte and trying to work out what is going on in code using GCD concepts … Continue reading →