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Headless MusicIP server in a Docker container

MusicIP runs very nicely serving up mixes of your local music, especially in conjunction with Logitech Media Server.

Although it's a very old program by now (and unfortunately closed source), I find it still makes mixes with a nice flavour, even better than Echonest in some respects (when that was easily available before Spotify made things difficult).

Usage

Launch the container with a command like this:

docker run -d -p 10002:10002 -v <host-music-dir>:/music justifiably/musicip

where is a directory containing music files.

Visit the web server at http://localhost:10002 and add some music files to analyse, from /music or other directories containing your music files mounted as volumes so they are visible to the server. See the example docker-compose.yml.

If you want to keep the database and settings outside the container, you can map a volume to /home/musicip. This should have a subdirectory create the directory .MusicMagic and put a mmm.ini file into it, start with the example included here and read the documentation at Spicefly.

Make sure the file and directory are owned by UID 1057 (or change the PUID arg and rebuild).

See extensive information and binaries kindly maintained at Spicefly.com, including documentation of the API.

Tricks: changing file locations, types...

To interface with Logitech Media Server I use an nginx wrapper which remaps some filenames and extensions, mainly for the historical reason that I ripped most of my CDs and bought iTunes music in m4a format before switching to Flac. Unfortunately the Linux version of MusicIP cannot read m4a files so I generated a shadow tree of lower bitrate mp3 files (also handy for devices).

See musicip.nginx for how to do this with nginx, which seems to work, more or less. I find it a cleaner solution than the one which is built into the Spicefly plugin, but YMMV.

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