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01/10/2008 at 12:55 AM #17492
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@ChadK wrote:

  1. Install FireFly Media Server via Cydia

  2. SSH to your iPhone as root and create an /etc/mt-daapd.conf file: 
    #
    
# mt-daapd.conf
    
#
    
# Edited: Fri Sep 19 14:53:31 2008
    
# By:     root
    
#
    
web_root        /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root
    
port            3689
    
admin_pw        alpine
    
mp3_dir         /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control/Music
    
servername      My iPhone
    
runas           mobile
    
playlist        /etc/mt-daapd.playlist
    
extensions      .mp3,.m4a,.m4p
    
db_dir          /private/var/cache/mt-daapd
    
rescan_interval 300
    
scan_type       2
    
always_scan     1
    
logfile         /var/log/mt-daapd.log
    
process_m3u     1
    
compress        1

    I recommend changing the admin password.

  3. Create a /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.fireflymediaserver.mt-daapd.plist file 

    

    

    

    
Label
    
org.fireflymediaserver.mt-daapd.plist
    
Program
    
/usr/sbin/mt-daapd
    
ProgramArguments
    

    
/usr/sbin/mt-daapd

  4. Register your new /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.fireflymediaserver.mt-daapd.plist file with launchctl: 
    launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.fireflymediaserver.mt-daapd.plist

  5. Add a BossPrefs custom service to start and stop the server 
    Name: FireFly
    
Start: launchctl start org.fireflymediaserver.mt-daapd.plist
    
Stop: killall mt-daapd
    
Process: /usr/sbin/mt-daapd
    
Icon: /Applications/BossPrefs.app/firefly.png

  6. Enjoy your music

FireFly won’t stay on in Boss Prefs. It stops every time I leave the Boss Prefs screen. For that matter, it doesn’t auto-start either. (Basically I have not been able to get it to work at all.) There are also TWO FireFly controls listed in Boss Prefs – even though I only added ONE.

I copied and pasted the conf and plist directly from your post. Are there permissions chmod/chown that need to be set?

Doesn’t start from command line either – indicating that I’ve done something wrong. While I try to figure out what it is, can you suggest places to look?