[Osiris]

Set up a Linux media server

Do you have multiple machines around your house that would like to share a centralized server for multi-media? Having such a server for music allows for consolidation, ease of use, and space saving on client PCs. Of course to many users, the idea of setting up a multi-media server sounds like it would be a nightmare…especially on the Linux platform. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
The Firefly Media Server (formerly mt-daap) is a fast DAAP server that is simple to install and even easier to configure. Firefly resides on a single Linux machine that doesn’t have to be a powerhouse. In fact, you can install this lightweight server on Ubuntu Server and you’re almost ready to go. In this article you will see how to do just that – install and configure Firefly Media Server on Ubuntu Server.

[Jayce]

How is this that different from a samba server?

[Shylock]

appears to me firefly uses Digital audio access protocol, and samba is a interoperability suite for windows, thats really for file serving and printing. sorta two totally different things, even though with samba you can play media/etc. it's not really the same methodology. btw I believe you can also setup remote control services and such also if you want to with firefly. ie it itself being the media center, not just a file or media server.

[Jayce]

So Firefly is Linux-to-Linux only and cannot cross platform to Windows using Samba?

[Shylock]

Of course it can. but its made to be a media server. IE it can do on-the-fly transcoding of flac, ogg, apple lossless, and WMA, and serve to like a roku automatically.