Folks these days would love to be able to stream their own music as effortlessly as Spotify, Apple Music, and other proprietary services, but often do not know how to do so. This tutorial is designed to provide a Free Software solution for music and media streaming. Using the documentation docs here and across a bunch of different forums, etc., I was able to set up a reverse proxy (on port 8081) with apache2 to run airsonic media server and I sym-linked it to a Nextcloud music server directory/instance. It works perfectly, and here are my findings and instructions. (As always, use the wiki for the latest instructions.)
sudo apt install tomcat9
cd /etc/tomcat9/
nano server.xml
Change port to needed port (8081)
wget https://github.com/airsonic/airsonic/releases/download/v10.5.0/airsonic.war
mv airsonic.war /var/airsonic/
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 0A3F5E91F8364EDF
wget https://github.com/airsonic/airsonic/releases/download/v10.5.0/artifacts-checksums.sha.ascgpg --verify artifacts-checksums.sha.ascsha256sum -c artifacts-checksums.sha.ascsudo rm /var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/airsonic.warsudo rm -R /var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/airsonic/sudo rm -R /var/lib/tomcat9/work/*sudo mkdir /var/airsonic/sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/airsonic/ ln -s /home/nextclouddata/username/files/Music/Masters musicsudo systemctl stop tomcat9.servicescreenjava -jar -Dserver.port=8081 /var/airsonic/airsonic.war<ctrl-a-d>
Once you detach from the screen, this will remain running until reboot. Navigate to:
localhost:8081
Or, set up a proper reverse proxy web server using apache (or similar server). There are some examples on the repo.
Enjoy, if you want to test, email me and navigate to music.jonathanhaack.com for a test!
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