Firefly Media Server

Firefly Media Server is an open-source audio media server for the Roku SoundBridge and iTunes. It serves media files using Roku Server Protocol and Digital Audio Access Protocol.

WWW Official Site

Features

Its features include:

Support for running on Unix/POSIX platforms
Support for running on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X
Support for running on the Apple Inc. iPhone and iPod Touch
Support for MP3, AAC, Ogg, FLAC, and WMA
Support for Roku SoundBridge via RSP
Support for on-the-fly transcoding of Ogg, FLAC, ALAC, and WMA
On Windows platforms, on-the-fly transcoding of WMA Lossless, WMA Pro and WMA Voice.
Web-based configuration
Support for user-created smart playlists
Integration with iTunes library including reading playlists
Supports serving streaming radio stations

Firefly Media Server was formerly known as mt-daapd. It was renamed when it adopted new features such as support for RSP and support for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

Latest developments

Firefly Media Server is not under active development, although there have been a few attempts to resurrect it. There has been an abortive effort to continue this project as without any developers coming forward, however the old forums and links to many forked versions are available at the new website. Since July 2009, development continued on a Linux/FreeBSD fork named forked-daapd. forked-daapd later renamed to .

Client players

DAAP
Rhythmbox, Banshee, and Amarok