Does anyone know what 'mt-daapd[902]' is?

[Lorand]

I have an external HDD connected to my Asus router AC88U.
Firmware: Asuswrt-Merlin 384.4_2

Today I saw something interesting in my routers general logs.

mt-daapd[902]: Short file: /tmp/mnt/[path to a music folder]/[song].mp3

every ~5 minutes 4 of these appear pointing to the same folder on 4 different songs.
after ~5 minutes the same 4 songs appear again in the same folder.

So any idea what does this mean? And why are the same 4 songs repeating?
I found nothing on the web about this, only that mt-daapd is some kind of Firefly Media Server that is no longer used.

Scrolled up the logs, and found that this was happening two days ago as well.
I have not even accessed that folder for years.

 

[Internet Man]

mt-daapd (Firefly Media Server) is used in AsusWRT to serve music to iTunes and other media players.

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/tree/master/release/src/router/mt-daapd

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/usb-application-media-server-itunes-server.16609/

 

[Lorand]

mt-daapd (Firefly Media Server) is used in AsusWRT to serve music to iTunes and other media players.

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/tree/master/release/src/router/mt-daapd

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/usb-application-media-server-itunes-server.16609/

So any ideas why is it repeating with the same 4 songs every 5 minutes?

 

[Internet Man]

So any ideas why is it repeating with the same 4 songs every 5 minutes?

The "Short file:" error message comes from mp3-scanner.c which probably scans directories at a regular interval to look for new/deleted mp3 files to make available for streaming. I'd guess that these 4 mp3 files are corrupted and their length does not match the expected length identified in the ID3 header. Maybe these files are less than 1024 bytes in size which probably couldn't contain any audio.

I'd probably just delete these four mp3 files and re-acquire them, if needed.