Tutorial: Firefly on OS X

[Anonymous]

I wrote this up, just thought I would share it here. A very basic, newbie-friendly tutorial to installing and setting up Firefly on OS X as an alternative to iTunes for serving media.

http://blog.elliottcable.name/posts/installing_the_firefly_media_server_mt_daapd_on_os_x.xhtml

Let me know if you have any thoughts, or if you more experienced Firefly’ers have any tips as to what I should let newbies know in an introduction to Firefly.

[stretch]

Is there any reason you used version 0.2.4.1 instead of say svn-1586?

[Anonymous]

It’s installed via MacPorts, it’s whatever is setup there. Port maintainers very rarely use SVN revisions.

[Anonymous]

@elliottcable wrote:

It’s installed via MacPorts, it’s whatever is setup there. Port maintainers very rarely use SVN revisions.

hi, like stretch, I’m a little confused as to why you would want to go down some convoluted unix/terminal/command line route when the .dmg installer is a simple easy way of installing firefly. Granted i’m not entirely sure what your port maintainers are/used for but with respect, your instructions are hardly conducive to installing firefly for the average user.

I can see that you have put in a lot of work to document your instructions but really, I think they muddy the waters for someone new looking to install firefly on a Mac. The GUI installer for the stable & 2 semi-stable releases is pretty straightforward and bar a couple of things that might trip up a new user (search & ye shall find the solutions!) I can’t help but think you’re over complicating matters.

With respect, Andy

[Anonymous]

@andyg wrote:

@elliottcable wrote:

It’s installed via MacPorts, it’s whatever is setup there. Port maintainers very rarely use SVN revisions.

hi, like stretch, I’m a little confused as to why you would want to go down some convoluted unix/terminal/command line route when the .dmg installer is a simple easy way of installing firefly. Granted i’m not entirely sure what your port maintainers are/used for but with respect, your instructions are hardly conducive to installing firefly for the average user.

I can see that you have put in a lot of work to document your instructions but really, I think they muddy the waters for someone new looking to install firefly on a Mac. The GUI installer for the stable & 2 semi-stable releases is pretty straightforward and bar a couple of things that might trip up a new user (search & ye shall find the solutions!) I can’t help but think you’re over complicating matters.

With respect, Andy

I didn’t even notice there was a Mac installer – after finding all the documentation stating that Mac support was “coming soon”, I wondered why this would be the case – it’s just a *nix, like any other. I went to install it, ran into a few problems, and decided to document said problems. If it *is* so very heavily supported as to have a GUI installer, woah, some documentation/references need updating >,>

Thanks, Andy (-:

[Anonymous]

If it *is* so very heavily supported as to have a GUI installer, woah, some documentation/references need updating

that may well be the case. I think mt-daapd/firefly information is quite spread about…

A quick google search under ‘firefly media server’ brings up the homepage and following the download link and choosing the ‘stable’ link does indeed end up on the sourceforge page. I see where you’re coming from… 🙄 Mind you, if you’d hit on the ‘nightly releases’ link, then you would have found further links to stable/unstable SVNs with download options for flavours of firefly from your regular Mac/Windows/Linux to debian/unslung/ubunutu etc.

http://nightlies.fireflymediaserver.org/

cheers, Andy

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