Comments on: Installing Playdar

By: Max Howell

Max Howell — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:38:42 +0000

Possibly the easiest way is with Homebrew, which has a playdar formula:

By: James Wheare

James Wheare — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:33:31 +0000

Note also that you’ll need a double dash in those options, the comment formatting is turning them into an endash annoyingly.

By: James Wheare

James Wheare — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:32:10 +0000

If you have music in AAC/MP4 format (quite likely if you use iTunes), you’ll want to configure Taglib like this:

./configure –prefix=/usr/local –enable-mp4

This will ensure that the Playdar scanner indexes all your mp4s.

By: owen

owen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:35:50 +0000

yes! i’m up and running :)

By: brian

brian — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:21:55 +0000

thanks tyler! though I am surprised you are using emacs and not pico for step 5.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:02:13 +0000

1) download and install “http://git-osx-installer.googlecode.com/files/git-1.6.5-intel-leopard.dmg”

2) download and install “http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R13B02-1.tar.gz” by:
./configure –prefix=/usr/local
touch lib/wx/SKIP
make
sudo make install

3) download and install “http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/files/src/taglib-1.6.tar.gz” by:
./configure –prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

4) download and install playdar-core by:
git clone git://github.com/RJ/playdar-core.git
make

5) configure it by:
cp etc/playday.conf.example etc/playdar.conf
emacs -nw etc/playdar.conf and:
uncomment name and set it to something cool
comment out p2p in the blacklist

6) ./start.sh

By: Max Howell

Max Howell — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:23:15 +0000

You may as well install git through macports:

sudo port install git

And indeed, mac playdar package on it’s way! Followed by Windows.