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Old 28-06-2006, 8:07 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Roku soundbridge - Best server software?

Been using Windows Media connect 2 to run my Soundbridge for some months now and although stable it is a tad resource hungry so decided to give the new open source firefly media server a go.

It installed in minutes with no configuration other than pointing it at my music library during the install.

It installs as a service that starts very quick at boot up and doesn't require a user logged in to share music unlike many servers.

Main benefit though is that browsing my 40Gb MP3 library on my SB is WAY faster than with WMC2. I used to get delay of a quite few secs on occasions when browsing artists but with Firefly browsing is instant.

Highly recommend this for any Roku users

www.rokulabs.com/firefly
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Just about to buy one of these - although it is the Euro version which requires firefly to talk to Itunes.....so it's comforting to know that FF is good anyway.

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