Stream Multimedia Files
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ReadyNAS Duo, NV+, and 1100
Stream Multimedia Files for iTunes with Firefly
With Firefly, you can stream music and video from your ReadyNAS system to any computer,
TV set-top box, or device in your house that has iTunes and other music streaming players
including Sonos and Roku SoundBridge. You can also set up smart playlists that sort your
music according to genre, artist, year, and other categories.
Set Up iTunes Streaming
You can quickly start streaming media to any device with iTunes.
To start iTunes streaming:
1.
From the FrontView main menu, select
Services > Streaming Services.
2.
Select
iTunes Streaming Server
.
3.
Click the
Apply
button.
4.
Open the share named media on your computer and copy your music files to the Music
folder on that share.
If you want your music to reside on a different location on your ReadyNAS system, see
Select Which Music Files to Stream
72.
5.
From the FrontView main menu, select
Services > Streaming Services
and click the
Connect to the Firefly setup
link.
6.
In Firefly, click
Start Full Scan
.
To listen to music in iTunes:
1.
Launch iTunes.
2.
In the iTunes sidebar under Shared, click the name of your iTunes server.
By default, it is called “Itunes server.” If you want to change the name, see
3.
Click
Play
.
