Welcome...

... to the Firefly Media Server project, previously known as "mt-daapd".

Note: Please upgrade your version of Firefly. See the download page for important security information.

The purpose of this project is built the best server software to serve digital music to the Roku Soundbridge and iTunes; to be able to serve the widest variety of digital music content over the widest range of devices. Current stable releases have been reported to run on Linux, all the BSDs, Solaris, AIX, and a variety of embedded devices such as the Linksys NSLU2, the Maxtor MSS, and the Buffalo Linkstation, to name but a few.

Current beta (or "nightly") versions run on Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP, as well.

Features

There are a number of features that differentiate Firefly Media Server from those other servers, and here is a partial list:

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 WMA (beta versions)
Web-based configuration
Support for user-created smart playlists (beta versions)
Integrates with iTunes library including reading playlists
Supports serving streaming radio stations
Did I mention fast?
Under active development!

Come join our community and help drive development of the media server you want to use for your digital music. Look around, download a copy, and report any problems or feature requests to the forums.

Share and Enjoy!