Firefly Media Server (formerly mt-daapd) is an

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audio

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(or

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) for the Roku SoundBridge and

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. It serves media files using Roku Server Protocol (RSP) and

Digital Audio Access Protocol The Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP) is the proprietary protocol introduced by Apple in its iTunes software to share media across a local network. DAAP addresses the same problems for Apple as the UPnP AV standards address for members of the ...

(DAAP).

Features

Its features include: * Support for running on

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platforms * Support for running on

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and

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* Support for running on the

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iPhone and

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* Support for

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, and WMA * Support for Roku SoundBridge via RSP * Support for

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transcoding Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion of one encoding to another, such as for video data files, audio files (e.g., MP3, WAV), or character encoding (e.g., UTF-8, ISO/IEC 8859). This is usually done in cases where a target devic ...

of Ogg, FLAC, ALAC, and WMA * On Windows platforms, on-the-fly transcoding of WMA Lossless, WMA Pro and WMA Voice. *

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configuration * Support for user-created smart

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s * Integration with iTunes library including reading playlists * Supports serving streaming radio stations Firefly Media Server was formerly known as ''mt-daapd''. It was renamed when it adopted new features such as support for RSP and support for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

Latest developments

Firefly Media Server is not under active development, although there have been a few attempts to resurrect it. There has been an abortive effort to continue this project a
Firefly2 Media Server
without any developers coming forward, however the old forums and links to many forked versions are available at the new website. Since July 2009, development continued on a Linux/FreeBSD fork named forked-daapd. forked-daapd later renamed t
OwnTone Server

Client players

* DAAP ( Android audio player) *

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, and Amarok (

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)

External links

Firefly Media Server websiteTwitter
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Features

Latest developments

Client players

See also

External links