Firefly DAAP server, first impressions

I have just installed the Firefly DAAP server (formerly known as the mt-daap server and still called mt-daapd in the Ubuntu repositories). It functions as a server for a database of your music files.

That does not sound as much until you realise that:

• It serves out playlists as well
• It is all really, really well done

I am trying out as a way of partioning my Rhythmbox's music library into two parts. I now have a Firefly DAAP server running, serving out a directory that is a mirror of my Sansa Clip portable player. In this way I can separate the music on that one (mostly latin music) from the music in my main library on the hard disk. Rhythmbox will treat them as completely separate entities with their own playlists and music libraries respectively.

So far, Firefly works like a charm. It feels solid, has a very functional web interface and is fast. I am impressed!

Will get back with more info later

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.

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