have been searching everywhere for some help on this and finally found this thread… here’s my situation:
i’ve owned an olive musica for over a year now and FINALLY got the thing on my home network (a wiring issue, not a technical one on my end). my main machine is a macbook pro running OSX 10.4.1. i have multiple PCs in the house as well.
the ‘promise’ of the olive was to have a single ‘component’ in the main audio setup that would provide access to all music files on any/all computers on the home network. that’s a BS proposition.
thankfully, i found firefly… which would finally allow me to stream the contents of my iTunes library through the olive. what should have been (and what was promised by olive) an out-of-the-box experience now requires an additional server running on my mac. so, okay.. and thank god for people like ron who develop things like firefly and graciously make them available to the rest of us.
but i’ve encountered two big issues that stand between me and what i’ve always thought/hoped the olive could/should do:
– i can’t play more than a single track at a time on the olive (whether controlling the component itself or via the web interface). this appears to have been hos’ problem as well. i’ve tried the latest nightly (1696) and earlier versions referenced in other posts on this forum, but with the nightly, i run into the “firefly is starting/restarting” message that lives on in perpetuity… and i’m unable to see firefly in my olive.
thoughts?
– i can’t seem to view additional music folders that i’ve added via the firefly web admin. i have a TON of live shows i’ve DLd from torrent sites in FLAC format that i’d love to stream through the olive over the main system. but the only directory i can see is the primary one i’ve set that holds my iTunes music folder (it’s on an external drive.. not the default mac-assigned music folder)
i have an olive musica 160GB machine with the latest firmware installed. i’m still incredibly disappointed with this machine and the false promises of its capabilities. but i own it… and i will make it do what i want it to do! (he said hopefully)
thanks in advance for any help… happy to post log files or whatever i can to facilitate a solution. i’m at my wits’ end.
thank you for firefly!!