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== Description ==
Firefly Media Server, previously known as "mt-daapd" is a service to stream digital music to Roku Soundbridge devices and iTunes. [http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/ Read more...]

This how-to will install Firefly Media Server to allow music stored on an SME server to be available to the local LAN.

The original RPM was produced by Gerald Schwarzecker and updated in Q1-2009 by Mark Leman to the use Firefiy media server version svn-1696.
== Installation ==

==== Configure the dag repositoy ====
Extra packages are required which are avalable in the dag repository.
{{Repository|dag}}

==== Enable Multicast traffic ====
Enable Multicast network traffic [http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,33226.msg167428.html#msg167428 discussed here...]

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/rc.d/init.d/masq
touch /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/rc.d/init.d/masq/40DenyMulticast
signal-event remoteaccess-update

=== Download RPM ===
wget http://www.leman.net/rpms/mt-daapd-svn.1696-3.sme7.0.i386.rpm

=== Install ===
Yum will automatically pull in the required dependancies from the Dag repository.
yum install mt-daapd-svn.1696-3.sme7.0.i386.rpm --enablerepo=dag
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

== Usage ==
When the server comes back from reboot you should be able to find Firefly's web control panel by browsing from your LAN:

http://your-server:3689
The user name is anything.
The password is 'mt-daapd'.

Navigate to the 'configuration' page to change the password and add some music directories.

== Source RPM ==
The source RPM is here [http://www.leman.net/rpms/mt-daapd-svn.1696-3.sme7.0.src.rpm http://www.leman.net/rpms/mt-daapd-svn.1696-3.sme7.0.src.rpm]
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