Stream Music from your iPhone to iTunes with Firefly Media Server

Mike Ter Louw has brilliantly managed to port mt-daapd, the Firefly Media Server, to iPhone. Firefly makes use of your iPhone's built in mDNS/Bonjour media service to stream audio to iTunes. Any iTunes. The one running on your home computer. The one running on a friend's computer. Wherever. Stream from your iPhone to a quality audio system. Here's how it works.

Navigate to http://home.mike.tl/iphone/ with Mobile Safari. This adds Mike's repository to Installer.app. Then launch Installer, select Firefly and install it. Wait as the package builds your music database. This can take 5-10 minutes based on the size of your iTunes library.

On your computer--or any computer you're visiting with--set iTunes to share music. Make sure your firewall settings allow communication and enable "Look for shared library" in your iTunes Sharing preferences.

In iTunes, locate your shared library--it will be listed by the name of your iPhone. Select it and log in. Even if you're using 1.1.1, the media password still appears to be "dottie".

Then just select a song and play! This, ahem, rocks. A lot.

Update: TUAW Reader Jonathan adds: "Safari redirects to /beta/. I bypassed that by going into installer.app's sources page and manually adding http://home.mike.tl/iphone. Installer picked it up right away, and it's building my music database now. "

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Dan

this is amazing it works really well if you can get it setup

January 29 2008 at 1:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ali

Also, ould someone lease tell me which option you click on to start firefly in Ultcl, ie.e load, load -w, start ??
i want to make sure i only start it when needed and not on every boot.

Also any idea, why itunes does not show any SHARED library all all?? i've checked all settings in itunes as far as i know. thanks

December 12 2007 at 12:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ali

in my itunes, there is no SHARED library. even though i've checked and enabled all sharing related option in itunes.
but the iphone still doesnt show anything in itunes!!

December 12 2007 at 12:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ian

I get "Package download failed: can't find host!"

Is there a way I can get the .app file and install it manually?

December 05 2007 at 5:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Lenny

I downloaded/installed Firefly using installer (from jailbreakme.com) used ulctl to enable (load -w) Itunes wont recognize iphone, even turned firewall completely off. help. is there something i missed?

November 25 2007 at 11:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeremy

Gotta tell you guys how awesome it is to have access to my 157Gb of music via my iPhone. Go to http://pixelcity.com/iphone-streaming-music/
Follow a few easy steps, punch a hole in that firewall, and you're good to go! I did end up learning a lot more about Apache, port forwarding, and DynDNS than I planned on, but it didn't hurt much :) Thanks for your work Brian!

November 14 2007 at 10:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ideama

if you get "Main script execution failed!" you should install first "BSD Subsystem", then you can install fireflyMediaServer without any problem, cheers. (iphone 1.1.1 jailbroken)

November 08 2007 at 9:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

chill392

Help needed! I installed it, but kept getting that nasty error described above. So I installed the BSD Subsys, but Firefly quit out when organizing the database, so it never got properly installed. So now I have a broken install that I can't uninstall, but will stream about twenty songs to my iTunes, but not without a bit of fuss (lots of crashing and loading and general un-goodness). Can someone please help? I don't want to brick this iPod, I already did that once this week! D; Is there a way to force installer to think that Firefly is installed already and to remove it through uninstallation?

November 04 2007 at 8:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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ali

hey,
did u end up fixing firefly on the iphone.
could you please tell me which option you click on to start it up with in Ultcl, ie.e load, load -w, start ??
i want to make sure i only start it when needed and not on every boot.

Also any idea, why itunes does not show any SHARED library all all?? i've checked all settings in itunes as far as i know

December 12 2007 at 12:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

zap

how can I edit the name of my phone in the iTunes list? (or edit my default password?) an ability to turn it on and off would be nice. anyway, great idea! thanks!

November 04 2007 at 5:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John

When I try to install the Server using the Installer.app I get this: Error: Main Script Execution Failed! message. Please advise.

November 03 2007 at 12:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply