Firefly on NAS?

[Anonymous]

Hey!

I newley bought a My Book™ World Edition™ II 1Tb and a Pinnacle SoundBridge M1001. The thing is that I want to use the NAS without my computer running. And I understand that the NSLU2 needs USB connections. The WD is a network hd with one usb connector on the back, but I somewhere read that the usb on the WD can’t be connected to use with a computer (?!?!) So does anyone know if it’s still possible to connect a NSLU2 and run firefly successfully to the soundbridge?
Any other suggestions for making my NAS be playable via Firefly without a computer running?!

THNX!
/andy

[rpedde]

@andrease wrote:

Hey!

I newley bought a My Book™ World Edition™ II 1Tb and a Pinnacle SoundBridge M1001. The thing is that I want to use the NAS without my computer running. And I understand that the NSLU2 needs USB connections. The WD is a network hd with one usb connector on the back, but I somewhere read that the usb on the WD can’t be connected to use with a computer (?!?!) So does anyone know if it’s still possible to connect a NSLU2 and run firefly successfully to the soundbridge?
Any other suggestions for making my NAS be playable via Firefly without a computer running?!

THNX!
/andy

It looks like people have gotten custom software to run on them, see:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/mybook_hacking/?branch_id=70300&release_id=257046

and

http://martin.hinner.info/mybook/

But I don’t see a forum, or a port of firefly to it yet. I imagine at some point, a hacking wiki/forum will get set up, and then someone will port it.

Really just a matter of time. But doens’t look like it right now.

— Ron

[Anonymous]

Hey, thanx anyway!!! 😀

/Andy

[drkris]

Andy / Ron,

I have a 500GB WDC MyBook World Edition and, after enabling SSH courtesy of Martin Hinner’s rather nifty hack (see Ron’s post above), managed to get the last firefly nightly (1586) to compile and run. It needed a few extra things to be downloaded and compiled first:

libid3tag-0.15.1b.tar
sqlite-3.4.0.tar
zlib-1.2.3.tar

and I needed to soft-link the libraries to /lib (probably unnecessary if you change the library search paths), but aside from that it was pretty painless. I haven’t copied over my main itunes library yet to see how it copes with a sizeable music collection, but my PowerBook sees the firefly server and the small no. of MP3s I copied over as a test without any problem.

If you need any help, I’ll do my best, but I can tell you categorically that it does work! 🙂

Kris.

[Anonymous]

Hey Kris!

And thanx for the info!
My knowledge about linux is not very good, so I’ll
let one of my friends take a look at it after his vacation…
I’ll let you know how it turns out.

later!

/andy

[Anonymous]

Hi again Kriss!!

My friend is back from the vacation but he was not much to help… 😉

Could you please write a step by step instruction how I should do?
He has some knowledge, but was a bit unsure…

/Andy newbie…

[drkris]

Andy,

No problem, I’ll try give them a go this evening. I’m not promising they’ll be comprehensive, but we should be able to get it going I think….and then we can write everything up properly for other people!

Have you got the 1TB or the 500Mb drive?

kris.

[Anonymous]

Hey Kris, thats absolutely fantastic!
I have the 1 TB drive.

I’ll be happy to help in anyway I can 😀

/Andy

[Anonymous]

Hey again Kris!

So did you have time for my request?!

Sorry, but I’m a bit unpatient… 😉

/Andy

[drkris]

Hi Andy,

Sorry, been tied up with redecorating the lounge the last couple of weeks and had the in-laws over this weekend. Should be able to get onto it this week though as the girlfriend is away on business so I have the evenings to myself 😉

Kris..

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