A standalone Java client: FireflyClient

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Playlists:
File -> New Playlist, name the playlist then drag & drop tracks onto the playlist.
Right clicking on a playlist gives you two options, rename or delete.

I see a window bar & am able to drag Firefly client around, etc…

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Thanks.

I tried it on my other PC and it works. Maybe it’s something up with Java.

[Anonymous]

Hey caribou,

is it complicated to implement rating functionality or the sorting of the playlist by clicking on the the rowheader?

I take a look on the source code and added a RowSorter to the SongTable.

It works but it selects the wrong song 🙁

I think that the modell also have to support the sorting functionality.

Cya

Frogy

[Anonymous]

Hey, I’ve been lurking for the last few months but I wanted to let you know how impressed I am by the evolution of your application.

I’m using using Firefly V1498 on a D-Link DNS-323, the latest version of FireClient and a library of 75,000 songs. I never have any problems with performance and while I’d love a couple more features (selecting multiple artists, sorting by album, title, etc) I’m really impressed by how robust the program is.

Thanks for all your hard work.

Let me know if I can do any load testing for you.

[Anonymous]

Greetings!

I have sucessfully set up the Firefly service on my home network to allow PC’s on my LAN to access my iTunes library from the NV+. I copied my music to the following path on the NV+ /c/media/iTunes

All was well until I tried to set up streaming to my PC at work. I opened up port 3689 on the router and as a test I went to http://:3689 and I was able to connect to Firefly on the NV+ So far so good! I then downloaded the latest Firefly client .06 from sourceforge and launched it from my work PC. I provided my IP address, password and the library list downloaded quickly. I clicked on one of the songs and after a long delay, the followiing error appeared… PS, I tried this on my LAN on a spare PC with the same results. Has anyone experienced this issue? I’ve poured over the forums and have not found a solution, hopefully someone can help! Thanks

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The line of text next to the red circle with the white cross says all you need to know.

“Unsupported audio encoding”

In other words, unsupported file type.

At a guess I’d say you were trying to play an aac file (.m4a)

[Anonymous]

Yes you are correct. Every one my files are m4a. I installed iTunes and this is what the default was? Am I missing something? P.S. the music I purchased from Apple is 4mp and it will not play either. what is going on? Please advise. Thank you for the direction 🙂

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Although Firefly can handle .m4a files, the java Firefly client can’t.
You will have to change the default music format in iTunes and convert everything.

Only Apple hardware / software can play .m4p files purchased from iTMS.
Your only option is to strip the DRM garbage by burning to CD & re-ripping or using some software that can strip the DRM directly. (Try googling for it)

[Anonymous]

I changed the default iTunes encoding to .mp3, imported a test CD, had Firefly rescan my library and it played instantly.

It had crossed my mind to try another format but I figured that if the Firefly client could handle .m4a then so could the client. Thanks again 😀

I set the .mp3 quality to 192 kbps which is the highest that iTunes will allow and I wont be able to test the performance of the client remotely until I return to work on Monday. Can you recommend any best practices for the encoding rate?

One final issue, which may be slightly off-topic… when I changed from .m4a to .mp3 I noticed that the album art did not download for the album. I know the art is available as this album existed in my iTunes collection, I just deleted the .m4a version and re-imported it in .mp3.

I did some research and found out that you can just go to Amazon and download the image from the website and attach it that way. That worked good for iTunes except that when I use the Java Firefly client the artwork wont appear. Still more research and I found out that I need to imbed the album art in each song? Any suggestions on how I could accomplish this? I found http://www.fixtunes.com/ on the web, is this a solution?

Thanks for your help so far!

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@jones525 wrote:

I set the .mp3 quality to 192 kbps which is the highest that iTunes will allow and I wont be able to test the performance of the client remotely until I return to work on Monday. Can you recommend any best practices for the encoding rate?

Set the bit rate as high as possible. If you use something other than iTunes you can encode MP3’s at 320kbps.
As you want to stream your music to work, you will have to find a happy compromise for the bit rate. You want it low enough that you don’t get dropouts but high enough so that your music doesn’t sound more like noise.
A good option here is variable bit rate MP3’s

@jones525 wrote:

One final issue, which may be slightly off-topic… when I changed from .m4a to .mp3 I noticed that the album art did not download for the album. I know the art is available as this album existed in my iTunes collection, I just deleted the .m4a version and re-imported it in .mp3. I did some research and found out that you can just go to Amazon and download the image from the website and attach it that way. That worked good for iTunes except that when I use the Java Firefly client the artwork wont appear. Still more research and I found out that I need to imbed the album art in each song?

Don’t embed the album art, it will cause Firefly to crash.
Place album art as a .jpg in the same folder as the album. Most library management software will find the album art and Firefly will just ignore it

@jones525 wrote:

I found http://www.fixtunes.com/ on the web, is this a solution?

There’s lots of software out there. What matters is “does it work for you”
I use dBpoweramp for ripping & MediaMonkey for library management.
My main library is in FLAC format but i have a duplicate in VBR MP3 (Lame) encoded at around 120kbps for use in the car.

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