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Firefly: Streaming to iTunes with DAAP

by Erica Sadun Apr 26th 2007 at 11:00AM

Make blog recently posted about how to run an iTunes DAAP server in Linux with Firefly. Firefly (né mt-daapd) provides an open-source digital audio server that supports iTunes-compatible streaming. With it, you can stream your media from a Linux platform to any other computer that's running iTunes. Best of all, it transcodes in real time. This allows you to stream file formats not normally supported by iTunes, such as OGG and FLAC.

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Vanhammersly

I use ssh to my Ubuntu box (Edgy) at home. It finds the library as if it was an iTunes library on a local network. Works great. Here's a howto.

http://www.mrblack.co.uk/blog/2007/04/02/tunnelling-music-from-ubuntu-to-itunes-via-ssh/

April 27 2007 at 10:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sam

The Firefly Streaming Server site says that MacOS X support is coming soon. I'll wait.

April 26 2007 at 9:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
(01)

Is that a Windows version of Firefox in the screenshot? Not that there's anything wrong with that of course....

April 26 2007 at 8:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

@ Alex S,

Ever heard of Google or Wikipedia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Access_Protocol

April 26 2007 at 1:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

One of many great shows canceled by Fox before they were allowed to take off!

April 26 2007 at 12:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alex

The college i attend is called DAAP (Design, Architecture, Art & Planning) at University of Cincinnati. I have no idea what DAAP is in this article. ???

April 26 2007 at 12:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark Studdock

oh, wrong firefly... false alarm...

April 26 2007 at 11:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chad

Does anyone know if something like this would work on videos? I have used DAAP to stream music to iTunes without physically adding it to my Library. If this worked for video, we could have an interesting new way to get video onto an AppleTV. With the live transcoding, we could even make the various AVI filetypes available without having to add codecs to the AppleTV.

April 26 2007 at 11:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Biffo

"Née" not "né" (unless Firefly is a man?)

April 26 2007 at 11:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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