By: Learn How to Leverage Firefly Media Server to Playback Your HP MediaSmart Server’s Stored Music Collection via the Internet | eHomeUpgrade

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:24:41 +0000

[...] If you’ve ever been interested in learning how you access your HP MediaSmart Server’s stored music collection from any web enabled device, the following how-to guide at MediaSmart Home does a fairly good job explaining how you can go about doing this. The guide shows you how to enable and configure the Firefly Media Server for remote access (delves into port forwarding, firewall settings, etc.) and also introduces you to Firefly’s playback add-in, FirePlay (requires Flash). The catch to this setup, of course, is it can only stream DRM-free music tracks. On the plus side, Firefly provides on-the-fly transcoding of OGG, FLAC, Apple Lossless, and WMA to MP3. In addition, Firely is able to sift through your iTunes library and even read playlists. [via] [...]

By: Jeremy Jones

Jeremy Jones — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:30:26 +0000

I setup the server and it is working well. I had to install the WHS add-in, the firefly software and add the fireplay files. It is still indexing which I set to aggressive. I’m hoping I can get multiple people streaming at the same time.

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By: Learn How to Leverage Firefly Media Server to Playback Your HP MediaSmart Server’s Stored Music Collection via the Internet | eHomeUpgrade

By: Jeremy Jones