The Firefly Media Server is an open-source project to build the best server software to serve digital music to the Roku Soundbridge and iTunes; to be able to serve the widest variety of digital music content over the widest range of devices. Current stable releases have been reported to run on Linux, all the BSDs, Solaris, AIX, and a variety of embedded devices such as the Linksys NSLU2, the Maxtor MSS, and the Buffalo Linkstation, to name but a few.

There are a number of features that differentiate Firefly Media Server from those other servers, and here is a partial list:

• Support for running on unix/POSIX platforms
• Support for Windows (beta versions)
• Support for Mac OSX (beta versions)
• Support for on-the-fly transcoding of OGG, FLAC, Apple Lossless, and WMA (beta versions)
• Web-based configuration
• Support for user-created smart playlists (beta versions)
• Integrates with iTunes library including reading playlists
• Supports serving streaming radio stations