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Firefly: Streaming to iTunes with DAAP
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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Mary said 11:30AM on 4-26-2007
"Née" not "né" (unless Firefly is a man?)
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Chad said 11:31AM on 4-26-2007
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.
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Mark Studdock said 11:41AM on 4-26-2007
oh, wrong firefly... false alarm...
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Leonard Nimrod said 12:56PM on 4-26-2007
One of many great shows canceled by Fox before they were allowed to take off!
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Alex S said 1:20PM on 4-26-2007
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. ???
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Leonard Nimrod said 1:25PM on 4-26-2007
@ Alex S,
Ever heard of Google or Wikipedia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Access_Protocol
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(01) said 8:45PM on 4-26-2007
Is that a Windows version of Firefox in the screenshot? Not that there's anything wrong with that of course....
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Sam said 9:31PM on 4-26-2007
The Firefly Streaming Server site says that MacOS X support is coming soon. I'll wait.
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Mike said 10:30AM on 4-27-2007
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/
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