freenas/musicbrainz repository overview

⁠linuxserver/musicbrainz with FreeNAS 10 Metadata

MusicBrainz⁠ is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.

⁠Parameters

The parameters are split into two halves, separated by a colon, the left hand side representing the host and the right the container side. For example with a port -p external:internal - what this shows is the port mapping from internal to external of the container. So -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 http://192.168.x.x:8080 would show you what's running INSIDE the container on port 80.

• -p 5000 - the port(s)
• -v /config - config files for musicbrainz
• -v /data - data files for musicbrainz
• -e PGID for GroupID - see below for explanation
• -e PUID for UserID - see below for explanation
• -e BRAINZCODE - to enter musicbrainz code. see below
• -e TZ - timezone eg Europe/London

It is based on alpine linux with S6 overlay, for shell access whilst the container is running do docker exec -it musicbrainz /bin/bash.

⁠User / Group Identifiers

Sometimes when using data volumes (-v flags) permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container. We avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID. Ensure the data volume directory on the host is owned by the same user you specify and it will "just work" ™.

In this instance PUID=1001 and PGID=1001. To find yours use id user as below:

  $ id <dockeruser>
    uid=1001(dockeruser) gid=1001(dockergroup) groups=1001(dockergroup)

⁠Setting up the application

• AFTER iniatilisation is complete you will need to edit the line sub WEB_SERVER { "localhost:5000" } in file /config/DBDefs.pm changing localhost to the ip of your host, this is to allow css to display properly

• You must register here to recieve a musicbrainz code to allow you to recieve database updates, it is free. Get Code here⁠.
• The initial import and setup of the database can take quite a long time, dependant on your download speed etc, be patient and don't restart the container before it's complete.
• It appears there are issues with unraid and using /mnt/user/cache/appdata instead of /mnt/cache/appdata, use /mnt/cache/appdata.

⁠Info

• To monitor the logs of the container in realtime docker logs -f musicbrainz.

• Shell access whilst the container is running: docker exec -it musicbrainz /bin/bash

• container version number

docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' musicbrainz

• image version number

docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' linuxserver/musicbrainz