Now you are ready to start the Firefly media server. If Netatlak is installed and running, you should now be able to connect to this new user on your Mac via Finder and copy songs to the music folder. Below are the commands to make a new user (here called “media”), switch to this new user, make a music directory in the user’s home directory, and exit the new user. Since Netatalk by default serves the home directory of all users, the easiest thing to do is to create a new user and put the media directory in this users home directory. If Netatalk is not installed on your Ubuntu machine, then see this post to do so. It is helpful if you can connect to this directory remotely using Netatalk to deposit files. sudo apt-get install libid3tag0Īfter Firefly is installed, it must be configured to server media from a specific directory. Make sure that the ID3 tag reading libraries are also installed (Firefly uses these). Open a terminal on your Ubuntu machine and type the following command: sudo apt-get install mt-daapd Install Firefly (mt-daapd) using the apt-get package management software. The following guide will get you started. Using Firefly, your Ubuntu machine can host an iTunes media server which, with the help of Avahi installed as per this post, will show up in the iTunes “SHARED” list and will be accessible via Front Row.
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