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Has someone tried it and was able to play something?

I tried it and iTunes lists it as a device but I cannot activate it in iTunes (if I select it, it immediately unselects itself). From the console output, I see that iTunes even does not try to connect to it (to TCP Port 5000).

I am currently on a Mac so I needed to do some porting (https://github.com/albertz/shairport/) but I think this shouldn't have an impact on the behavior I am getting.

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I got the same result at first. But after trying to play from my iPod touch, it worked.

I guess running the server and iTunes client on the same machine caused the problem.

My config: MBP on 10.6.7

And thank you for your dns-sd patch on https://github.com/albertz/shairport/

Sweet, thanks for your port! I just got everything working on my iMac. It shows up as an AirSpeaker from my iPhone on the same network and I can stream music from the iPhone to my iMac!

With 0.03 and some further fixes, it also works on localhost now.

Author states this is broken on a Mac.

That is why I have patched it. For example, it uses `dns-sd` instead of `avahi-publish-service`. Registering seems to work, at least iTunes shows it. But there is no single connection attempt, so everything else (all the C-code etc.) is anyway unrelated because it doesn't even get there.

Maybe it refuses to connect because it is the same (localhost) machine? I don't have another machine at hand to try out right now.

Is your firewall blocking the port?

If you disable the IPv6 address on the linux server it works.

Which you can do via, for example

sudo /sbin/ip addr del <ipv6address>/<prefixlength> dev ethX

Works great! Many thanks for the port.

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