mannp/musicip repository overview

⁠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.