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Forte

Self-hosted, music streaming platform
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About the project

forte is a self-hosted music platform. You can either connect to a forte server or create your own server for your friends & family. However, it is also very convenient to use forte on your local machine as a stand-alone music player. Follow this guide to learn how to connect and how to build your own forte server.

Features

• Add tracks and albums to your queue
• Mark your favorite tracks, albums, artists, playlists
• Endless listening with radio feature
• Create playlists
• Desktop / Mobile Player
• Listen to TuneIn stations
• Specialized context menus
• Make fuzzy searches
• Add friends
• Playing controls
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Lyrics support
• MediaSession API
• Progressive Web App
• Group Sessions
• Admin dashboard
• User profiles
• Last.fm Scrobbling

Creating your own server

To build and host your own server you need a decent computer as we will be dealing with multiple users and streaming audio files to them. In the remaining of this section, we will be going over the steps of building the server.

Forte uses docker to build the server. Therefore, you need to have docker installed on your machine. You can find the installation instructions for your operating system here⁠.

Building the server

To run the docker container, you need to have the docker-compose.yml file. Download the file here:

docker-compose.yml⁠

Before running the file, you need to edit some fields:

environment:
  mode: local            # local or public, defaults to local
  forte_server: <server> # only if mode is public
  forte_email: <email>   # only if mode is public
volumes:
  - <library>:/library   # The path to your music library

Here's an example for the docker-compose.yml file:

version: '3'
services:
    app:
        image: kaangiray26/forte:1.3
        ports:
            - "80:80"
            - "443:443"
            - "3000:3000"
        depends_on:
            - postgres
        environment:
            mode: public
            forte_server: forte.example.com
            forte_email: forte@example.com
        volumes:
            - /home/forte/library:/library
    postgres:
        image: postgres
        restart: always
        environment:
            POSTGRES_DB: forte
            POSTGRES_USER: forte
            POSTGRES_PASSWORD: forte
        volumes:
            - db-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
volumes:
    db-data:

Using locally

If you want to use the server locally, you can edit the docker-compose.yml file and change the mode field to local. Then, you can run the following command to start the server:

sudo docker-compose up -d

Using publicly

If you want to use the server locally, you can edit the docker-compose.yml file and change the mode field to public. Also, you need to set the fields forte_server and forte_email. Then, you can run the following command to start the server:

sudo docker-compose up -d

Forte dashboard

You can access the forte dashboard by going to http://localhost:3000. The default login credentials are: forte and alternative.

While in dashboard, don't forget to change the genius_token, lastfm_api_key, lastfm_api_secret fields in the Config tab for genius and lastfm extensions.

Also, please change the default password from the Password tab.

License

Distributed under the GPL-3.0 License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

Kaan Giray Buzluk - @kaangiray26⁠ - kaangiray26 (at) protonmail.com

• Project Link: https://github.com/kaangiray26/forte⁠
• Docker Image: https://hub.docker.com/r/kaangiray26/forte

Acknowledgements

Check out the following list of resources that I've used to build forte.

• Img Shields⁠
• PeerJS⁠
• Howler.js⁠
• Hammer.js⁠
• Greenlock Express⁠
• Bootstrap⁠
• Bootstrap Icons⁠
• Anime.js⁠