2008-03-27

MP3FS on Mac OS X with MacFUSE

My music collection is stored in the FLAC format (see https://xiph.org/flac/), but iTunes for my iPhone is not able to read FLAC-Files. So i decided to give MP3FS a try on my Mac.

1. Install the MacFUSE dmg 1.3.1 from http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ (the MacPorts Port is a little bit outdated at the moment).
2. Install libflac, liblame and id3tag from MacPorts (sudo /opt/local/bin/port install lame flac libid3tag).
3. Download and unpack the mp3fs-0.12.tar.gz from http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net/.
4. Change Directory to mp3fs-0.12 and install my small patch (Upgrades to Interface Version 26, changes the includes for statfs and provides an Xcode project) with:

patch -p1 < ../patch-mp3fs-012.patch

(diff was created with:

diff -ruN mp3fs-0.12.org mp3fs > patch-mp3fs-012.patch

5. Start the Xcode project and compile.
6. If everything worked, mount your mp3fs and enjoy.

If you like to know what you are doing, here are the source diffs:

23c23
< #define FUSE_USE_VERSION 22
---
> #define FUSE_USE_VERSION 26
32a33,36
> #ifdef __APPLE__
>      #include <sys/param.h>
>      #include <sys/mount.h>
> #else
33a38
> #endif
194c199
< static int mp3fs_statfs(const char *path, struct statfs *stbuf) {
---
> static int mp3fs_statfs(const char *path, struct statvfs *stbuf) {
203c208
<   res = statfs(name, stbuf);
---
>   res = statvfs(name, stbuf);
268c273
<   fuse_main(argc-1, argv+1, &mp3fs_ops);
---
>   fuse_main(argc-1, argv+1, &mp3fs_ops, NULL);
diff -r mp3fs-0.12.org/src/transcode.c mp3fs/src/transcode.c
26a27,30
> #ifdef __APPLE__
>       #include <sys/param.h>
>       #include <sys/mount.h>
> #else
27a32
> #endif