In the Trenches - Music Sharing with Rhythmbox

Posted September 22nd, 2006 by admin

After upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy, while I like Rhythmbox’s simplicity, I could not see music shares around the net. Bummer. I finally figured out after some Googling that Gnome uses a service called ‘Avahi’ to handle all of its multicast-DNS stuff, including iTunes-style DAAP music sharing. In Edgy, Avahi isn’t enabled by default, so to make it enabled by default, edit:

/etc/defaults/avahi-daemon

and change the START parameter from a 0 to a 1. Now you should be able to run:

sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start

Restart Rhythmbox and everything should be happy.