itunes 10

[dman000000]

i just upgraded to itunes 10 (10.1.1.4) and it appears that the itunes helper can no longer connect so i've lost use of the driver. I'm pretty sure i am on 3.4.8.

[Mark Stega]

i just upgraded to itunes 10 (10.1.1.4) and it appears that the itunes helper can no longer connect so i've lost use of the driver. I'm pretty sure i am on 3.4.8.

I also have iTunes 10.1.1.4 and have no trouble invoking the helper and having it generate the cover art and the XML data for the repository. The only thing I can suggest is setting the logging verbosity to high and doing a manual invoke from the tray icon. Post the logs after doing that.

[kfly]

i just upgraded to itunes 10 (10.1.1.4) and it appears that the itunes helper can no longer connect so i've lost use of the driver. I'm pretty sure i am on 3.4.8.

I just checked my system and my Itunes helper was in an endless loop also. I put the itunes disk repository in verbose log level High and it appears a new Playlist "Recently Played" was causing the issue. there was only one item in that itunes playlist. it was a movie. not sure why it caused the endless loop. I deleted the "Recently Played" list and itunes helper now runs to completion.
I am sure it has to do with a movie I played on my ipad recently.

Mostly likely you have a playlist that is causing the helper to go into a endless loop also.

Kevin

[Mark Stega]

I just checked my system and my Itunes helper was in an endless loop also. I put the itunes disk repository in verbose log level High and it appears a new Playlist "Recently Played" was causing the issue. there was only one item in that itunes playlist. it was a movie. not sure why it caused the endless loop. I deleted the "Recently Played" list and itunes helper now runs to completion.
I am sure it has to do with a movie I played on my ipad recently.

Mostly likely you have a playlist that is causing the helper to go into a endless loop also.

Kevin

Can you post the log so I can see if there is something I can do to the helper to prevent the issue?

[dman000000]

log dump:

01/14 22:15:04-HomeAuto, CQCServer, iTunes_DBLoadThread
{
iTunesRepo2S, iTunesRepo2S_DBLoader.cpp.532, Status/App Status
Got nak response from tray app while waiting for end. Moniker=iTunes
System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast COM object of type 'iTunesLib.iTunesAppClass' to interface type 'iTunesLib.IiTunes'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{9DD6680B-3EDC-40DB-A771-E6FE4832E34A}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).
}
01/14 22:15:08-HomeAuto, CQCServer, CQCDrv_iTunes_Thread7
{
CQCKit, CQCKit_DriverBase.cpp.2734, Status/App Status
Driver 'iTunes' is trying to load its configuration
}
01/14 22:15:08-HomeAuto, CQCServer, CQCDrv_iTunes_Thread7
{
CQCMedia, iTunesRepo2S_DriverImpl.cpp.350, Status/App Status
The media repository load failed. Driver=iTunes
}
01/14 22:15:13-HomeAuto, CQCServer, CQCDrv_iTunes_Thread7
{
CQCKit, CQCKit_DriverBase.cpp.2734, Status/App Status
Driver 'iTunes' is trying to load its configuration
}
01/14 22:15:13-HomeAuto, CQCServer, CQCDrv_iTunes_Thread7
{
CQCMedia, iTunesRepo2S_DriverImpl.cpp.431, Status/App Status
Starting load of media repository from C:\Program Files\CQC\CQCData\Server\Data\iTunesRepo2\TrayDump_iTunes\
}
01/14 22:15:13-HomeAuto, CQCServer, CQCDrv_iTunes_Thread7
{
iTunesRepo2S, iTunesRepo2S_DBLoader.cpp.227, Status/App Status
Starting database load
}
01/14 22:15:13-HomeAuto, CQCServer, iTunes_DBLoadThread
{
iTunesRepo2S, iTunesRepo2S_DBLoader.cpp.384, Status/App Status
Attempting to contact tray app at 192.168.1.103:13600
}
01/14 22:15:13-HomeAuto, CQCServer, iTunes_DBLoadThread
{
iTunesRepo2S, iTunesRepo2S_DBLoader.cpp.417, Status/App Status
Request for file generation sent. Waiting for reply. Moniker=iTunes
}
01/14 22:15:13-HomeAuto, CQCServer, iTunes_DBLoadThread
{
iTunesRepo2S, iTunesRepo2S_DBLoader.cpp.483, Status/App Status
Got start reply, waiting for end reply. Moniker=iTunes
}
01/14 22:15:14-HomeAuto, CQCServer, iTunes_DBLoadThread
{
iTunesRepo2S, iTunesRepo2S_DBLoader.cpp.532, Status/App Status
Got nak response from tray app while waiting for end. Moniker=iTunes
System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast COM object of type 'iTunesLib.iTunesAppClass' to interface type 'iTunesLib.IiTunes'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{9DD6680B-3EDC-40DB-A771-E6FE4832E34A}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).
}

[Mark Stega]

Got nak response from tray app while waiting for end. Moniker=iTunes
System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast COM object of type 'iTunesLib.iTunesAppClass' to interface type 'iTunesLib.IiTunes'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{9DD6680B-3EDC-40DB-A771-E6FE4832E34A}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).

To me this says that your installation of iTunes is somehow corrupt since I have the same version and can invoke the COM object. You can try removing/reinstalling iTunes but if that doesn't work something is likely hosed in the registry and you are facing a system rebuild. Do you have another nachine that has iTunes where you could at least temporarily try the helper app?

[dman000000]

The iTunes driver is now working with the tray app again. Here is the summary of what happened in case it is of help troubleshooting a smiliar problem for someone else:

• I installed itunes 10.1.1 and lost the ability for the tray app to communication to itunes per the previous posts and log dump
  
• Unistalling and reinstalling both itunes and the tray app did not resolve anything
  
• I updraded to the latest 10.1.2 version of itunes today and it is working normally again now
  
• The original 10.1.1 upgrade and the subsequent reinstalls were all done through remote desktop - I logged in directly to the machine for the 10.1.2 upgrade install. I have no idea if this is just coincidence but figured it was worth noting