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Self Hosting Navidrome - Your personal music streaming service

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Hello everyone! 👋

In this article I will show you how to self-host Navidrome, your personal music streaming
service.

I will provide you with an Ansible playbook that you can run from your machine.

Navidrome

Navidrome is an open-source self hosted music streaming server. You can deploy it, load your music and then
enjoy it using various clients like a web browser or a mobile application.

You can find more information about Navidrome by visiting their website:

Since Navidrome is open source and free to use for everyone you can also support its
authors with a small donation:

The Playbook

To install Navidrome I'm providing you with an Ansible playbook that you can download from my forge.

https://forge.nuculabs.dev/dnutiu/ansible-playbooks/src/branch/master/navidrome

As with every Ansible playbook, the first step is to edit the inventory.ini file and set
the hosts of your server where you want Navidrome installed and the ansible user, usually root.

[nuculabs]
host.example.com ansible_user=root

[local]
localhost
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To run the playbook you need to have make installed and run:

Note: That I've written the commands for a Fedora based distro, you can edit the Make file
in order to adapt it to your Linux based distro.

make install
make run
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To customize the installation you can edit the variables.yaml file.

setup_firewall: false # exposes the firewall ports
navidrome:
  http_port: 4533
  container_image: "docker.io/deluan/navidrome:latest"
  base_directory: "/navidrome"
  log_level: "info" # Possible values: error, warn, info, debug, trace
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The default configuration will install Navidrome with the latest image and the following path of
the music library /navidrome/music/.

Navidrome will be accessible on the 4533/tcp port, if you want to expose the port on your VPS via
firewalld you can set setup_firewall to true. Alternatively you can also put an Nginx reverse proxy
in front of it.

If you're installing Navidrome on your local computer then all you need is to run the playbook with the
following inventory.ini. (Please remember to replace with your system user.)

[nuculabs]
localhost ansible_user=<sudo_user>

[local]
localhost
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It will install Navidrome on the current machine and you will be able to access it on http://localhost:4533. In order
for Navidrome to see your music it must be placed in the /navidrome/music folder,
or you will need to create symlinks.

Thank you for reading! 📚 See you next time!

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