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		<title>Installing Firefly Media Server on Ubuntu 6.06</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following instructions need to be updated, though the steps are pretty similar. Installing Firefly on Dapper Drake was a breeze: Grab mt-daapd_0.9-svn-1463_dapper_i386.deb from here dpkg --install mt-daapd_0.9-svn-1463_dapper_i386.deb If it complains about dependencies, grab them: apt-get install libflac7 libid3tag0 libogg0 libsqlite0 libvorbis0a libvorbisfile3 That&#8217;ll finish the installation of mt-daapd. Check to see if it&#8217;s working by browsing to [...]]]></description>
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<p />The following instructions need to be updated, though the steps are pretty similar.
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<p>Installing <a href="http://fireflymediaserver.org/">Firefly</a> on Dapper Drake was a breeze:</p>
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<li>Grab mt-daapd_0.9-svn-1463_dapper_i386.deb from <a href="http://nightlies.mt-daapd.org/">here</a></li>
<li><code>dpkg --install mt-daapd_0.9-svn-1463_dapper_i386.deb</code></li>
<li>If it complains about dependencies, grab them:<br />
<code>apt-get install libflac7 libid3tag0 libogg0 libsqlite0 libvorbis0a libvorbisfile3</code><br />
That&#8217;ll finish the installation of mt-daapd.</li>
<li>Check to see if it&#8217;s working by browsing to http://your-machine:3689</li>
<li>The main configuration file is /etc/mt-daapd.conf. I didn&#8217;t change anything except the mp3_dir, which I set to my iTunes folder on my samba share. I might need to change the scan_type later, as I noticed it was set to &#8220;Painfully aggressive&#8221; <img src='http://julianrex.com/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  <em>(As an aside, I manage my music with iTunes on my Mac. I simply moved the entire iTunes folder to the linux box, and created a symbolic link, so that iTunes wouldn&#8217;t think anything had changed: cd to ~/Music, and <code>ln -s /Network/Servers/ubuntu/share/iTunes</code>. I have the samba share automounting, and if you check /Network/Servers is a symlink to /automount/Servers. <a href="#itunes">See below.</a>)</em></li>
<li>The firefly server should show up in iTunes under the SHARED section.</li>
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<p>Upon rebooting my ubuntu box, I found firefly wasn&#8217;t running. <a href="http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?t=4677">Checking the forums</a>, helped, and all I needed to do was: <code>ln -s /opt/etc/init.d/S60mt-daapd /etc/rc2.d/S60mt-daapd</code>.</p>
<p>If you need to restart the server, issue (as root) a <code>/etc/init.d/mt-daapd restart</code>. If you check the running processes, you&#8217;ll see TWO mt-daapd processes. This had me confused for a while, but is normal.</p>
<p>By default you can&#8217;t see your iTunes playlists &#8211; this is down to an inappropriately named switch in the config file. Read about it <a href="http://wiki.fireflymediaserver.org/FAQ">here</a>, under <em>Why can&#8217;t I see my iTunes playlists</em>.</p>
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<div class="updated">Dec 2008: I no longer store the entire iTunes folder on the network share, as iTunes fails to start if it cannot find the folder location. Instead I&#8217;ve found it&#8217;s best to store just the iTunes Music folder, and create a symbolic link to that. By doing this it also allows multiple users to access the music, whilst retaining the ability to rate their music, etc. </p>
<p>This works better than using the &#8220;iTunes Music folder location&#8221; in the Advanced preferences, as iTunes will reset that folder if it can&#8217;t access that folder, without informing you!</p>
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