Cherrymusic is a music streaming server written in python.

We assume the deployment is done in /home/user/music.domain.com

Cherrymusic

1. Go to the deployment folder and clone the cherrymusic repo

cd /home/user/music.domain.com
git clone https://github.com/devsnd/cherrymusic

2. Create and enable the virtualenv

python3 -m venv music_env
source music_env/bin/activate

3. Test if the cherrymusic server starts and stop it afterwords

python cherrymusic --setup --port 8080
(ctrl+c)

4. If you executed this commands under another user than the one under which you want to run cherrymusic

(eg: you ran the commands as root but you want to run under the user `user`)

mkdir -p /home/user/.config/cherrymusic
cp ~/.config/cherrymusic/cherrymusic.conf /home/user/.config/cherrymusic/

5. Edit cherrymusic.conf from the `user`’s home and set the `basedir` with the path where your music collection is stored.
eg: /var/music

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