= Higgins Project =

== Project Overview ==

Higgins is a media server written in Python.  Higgins is designed to be run on a file server or NAS (though this is certainly not a requirement), and is configurable through a web interface.  Higgins supports plugins to extend functionality, allowing new protocols to be supported.

Currently Higgins has basic DAAP (iTunes) and UPnP AV MediaServer support.  For more information on current capabilities, see the [wiki:CurrentStatus Current Status] page.  For information on planned features, see the [/roadmap Roadmap] page.

Installation and configuration instructions are in the [wiki:Users User Documentation] section.

Higgins is open-source software.  For instructions on how to get the source code and start contributing, see the [wiki:Developers Developer Documentation] section.

Higgins is mostly licensed under the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html GNU LGPL version 2.1], with a few portions licensed under the [http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php BSD license].

== Why the name 'Higgins'? ==

[http://www.fluendo.com Fluendo] has a media renderer application similar to Apple's Front Row called [http://elisa.fluendo.com Elisa].  My original goal was to create a media server that would interoperate seamlessly with Elisa, so I named it Higgins in reference to the characters Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle in the play My Fair Lady :)  However fluendo decided to rename their product to Moovida, so my name isn't very clever anymore.