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How-To: Install Firefly Media Server for Windows Home Server

Do you own an iPod, or use iTunes heavily? Do you want an easy way to access your server's music on iTunes much the same way that HP MediaSmart Server users can? Well, HP used the Firefly Media Server in part to accomplish what they did. And we are going to show you how to install FireFly.

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Add-In Update: Firefly WHS 0.0.2

Nic Bedford has updated his Firefly WHS add-in which controls the settings for Firefly Media Server running on Windows Home Server. Version 0.0.2 fixes a problem whereby the add-in stated that the service needed restarting even when no settings had been changed. Download: Firefly WHS | Forum

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What’s in This Week’s HP MediaSmart Server Update?

Yesterday, I mentioned that a software update was on the way from HP for the MediaSmart Server. My home server automatically downloaded this update on Thursday evening - but what’s in the update? I checked in with the team at HP, and they told me the update includes the following fixes: The HPNetMon service is used to report [...]

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Add-In: Firefly for Windows Home Server

Firefly is a media server application which allows you to stream music to DMR’s like the Roku Soundbridge and to iTunes. It’s an open source, community build application, offering the following features: Support for running on unix/POSIX platforms Support for Windows (beta versions) Support for Mac OSX (coming soon!) Support for on-the-fly transcoding of OGG, FLAC, Apple Lossless, and [...]

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