Comments on: How-To: Install Firefly Media Server for Windows Home Server

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Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:57:16 +0000

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By: Shantanu Goel

Shantanu Goel — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:32:42 +0000

I made some fixes to the latest trunk version of FireFly and compiled it. Would you like to try it out? I’ve posted up the binaries as well as instructions on how to compile it (along with my modified sources) at:
http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2009/07/03/compiling-latest-firefly-mt-daapd-asus-wl-500w.html
Please let me know if you have any comments/queries. I hope we can keep this great little media server going

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By: Sridhar

Sridhar — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:13:42 +0000

@Terry Walsh

Terry,
Is it as hard as rocket science? I wonder Open Source world didn’t target to develop an alternate to that… Quite surprising!!!

Thanks for the reply… please keep me posted if you come across any such tools.

By: Terry Walsh

Terry Walsh — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:05:56 +0000

@Sridhar - They have their own software to do this, which isn't available for self-builds, unfortunately.

By: Sridhar

Sridhar — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:00:50 +0000

What does HP use on Mediasmart server to collect the Music, Photos and Videos automatically… and place them in shared folders. I build my own WHS and got Firefly and Twonky servers configured. Thanks in advance for your suggestions!!!

By: narzxo

narzxo — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:15:17 +0000

Quite frankly I find Firefly useless; so it can stream to iTunes (and a few other things).. big deal? If I can’t transfer the music to my iPod then it isn’t much good to me. I’ve since simply added the network share to the iTunes library; I can then transfer files to my iPod or listen to them when I want… voila. Was very dissapointed.

By: merdzd

merdzd — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:39:52 +0000

@Kalps -

FireFly will stream 2 you network all what in “%folder%”.
users can upload files in 2 “%folder%” (manually).

By: Kalps

Kalps — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:14:59 +0000

Hi,

We have a network, and want to run a media server, whereby, users from different XP professional workstations can upload files to the media shared library and also stream the files on that share.

Is this possible with FireFly, or is it only able to stream files from the central share and not upload from individual workstations.

Thank you.

By: ben

ben — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:49:47 +0000

hello, reading your article and i am trying to stream audio from my laptop to a windows mobile device, from itunes so i can plug in to my hifi. i am struggling to connect to the firefly server through my mobile device, i am fairly new to streaming and stuff, any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks ben

By: merdzd

merdzd — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:48:48 +0000

i`m got Firefly Media Server on my WHS but Firefly stream music to any iTunes you can`t add or copy 2 ipod.
and i use itunes only for copy musik 2 ipod/itouch
so i have to manualy add folders to itunes Library.
is there a way Itunes scan fo new music on my \\WHS\music.

By: merdzd

merdzd — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:40:47 +0000

Served Says:
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I also found the HP iTunes solution kind of restrictive. What I have done is 1) put all music files within the Music share (M:\Music); 2) first computer built its iTunes library on M:\Music; 3) direct 2nd computer to M:\Music for its library – that was instant – no importing or lib building required. Now, when either computer puts new music into the library, it is instantly recognized within the other’s library.
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this is only with HP media server ?