August 2, 2008
12:00 am

FireFly Media Server will index all of your files in the folder you specified. This may take a while, and it will not be available properly until it is done. Also, when FireFly Media Server tries indexing corrupt files, it crashes. Here’s the method from the MS WHS Forums:

What you will need

  • Remote Desktop Connection or Advanced Admin Console
  • Bonjour - Yes, this is in fact required.
  • Firefly Media Server - The most current version is build 1696, and does work on Windows Home Server
  • Firefly WHS Add-In - Download this to your “Add-Ins” directory on the server.
  1. Once you are at the console, use notepad to edit “c:\program files\firefly media server\mt-daapd.conf”
  2. Change (or add, if it isn’t there) an option called “debuglevel” with a value of 5 in the “[general]“ section.
  3. Then, delete the “songs3.db” file (in “c:\program files\firefly media server”) and start the firefly server.
  4. It will crank around, indexing the music for a while. At some point it will crash. When it does, look at the log file in “c:\program files\firefly media server\firefly.log”.
  5. Find the last song it tried to index and move it out of the way. Then start it again and repeat as necessary.

Source:→ WGS

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    Shantanu Goel says#1 | July 5th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    Hi

    I made some fixes to the latest trunk version of FireFly and compiled it. This version fixes many of the crashes and security issues and also adds some missing database functionalities. Would you like to try it out? I've posted up the binaries as well as instructions on how to compile it (along with my modified sources) at:
    http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2.....-500w.html
    Please let me know if you have any comments/queries. I hope we can keep this great little media server going :)

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