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-title = "Adding simple music server to my network"
-author = ["Michał Sapka"]
-date = 2022-05-25T22:26:00+02:00
-lastmod = 2023-12-29T23:08:16+01:00
-categories = ["article"]
-draft = false
-weight = 2005
-abstract = "As part of my partitioning with streaming services, I have created a small music server on my home network. This article touches on how to get music, how to store and how to actually listen to it."
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-_This is an old article, and even though it is still valid, I no longer use Linux_
-
-One of my goals for 2022 is to not pay for music subscriptions anymore.
-Nowadays, it's really easy and cheap to actually own my music.
-
-
-## Getting music {#getting-music}
-
-Internet is full of cheap, used CDs and new music is ready for purchase on sites like Bandcamp.
-Since I mostly listen to dead people, CDs are my primary source.
-
-The first problem is having something to put a disc in.
-I've gotten myself a cheap USB-CD/DVD drive.
-It's very loud, but since I use it only for getting the data to my computer, it's not a problem.
-
-I rip (a word that I have not seen in a long time) on MacBook using XLD app.
-I plan to move this step to Linux soon.
-
-[XLD homepage](https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html)
-
-I rip the music to FLAC, which seems to be standard.
-It's lossless and most file-based players have no problems with it.
-Of course, not everywhere.
-iOS is always problematic, but I don't listen to music on the go very often, so it's a problem for future me.
-
-A single album in FLAC takes about 200-300 MB.
-I still remember MP3 days, where it would go down to 60 MB or less, but back then storage and transfer were actually expensive.
-I don't hear any noticeable difference between FLAC and good compressed file, but again - storage and transfer is cheap, Furthermore I have a single high-res album where half an hour takes 750 MBMB and there is zero difference.
-Well, now I know, and I won't buy-high res ever again :)
-
-
-## Storing and serving music {#storing-and-serving-music}
-
-The music will be accessed by multiple devices on local network, so putting it on the Home Server makes perfect sense.
-I now have a dedicated share "music" which is shared via Samba and NFS.
-
-Samba seems better than NFS, but then NFS on Linux is simpler to set up.
-
-For Samba, I need to add read+write access to Music share for each user from Synology web UI.
-
-NFS on the other hand doesn't support users, but devices instead.
-The first step is to set static IP for my devices (which is always a good idea).
-How exactly this should be approached depends on the setup, but I use UniFi Dream Machine and forcing IP for a device is very straight forward.
-After I have static IPs, I can add read/write access for those addresses, also via Synology web UI.
-
-Served music is so small, that this does not add any noticeable overhead for the server.
-
-
-## Accessing the music on Linux {#accessing-the-music-on-linux}
-
-First, I needed to install NFS support. I use Arch, so:
-
-```shell
-pacman -S nfs-utils
-```
-
-Then I checked if the share actually exists. My server's address is 10.0.1.200.
-
-```shell
-showmount -e 10.0.1.200
-------------------
-Export list for 10.0.1.200:
-/volume2/music 10.0.1.10
-```
-
-Voilà! Next step: check if it works
-
-```shell
-mkdir /mnt/music
-mount 10.0.1.200:/volume2/music /mnt/music/
-cd /mnt/music
-ls
-```
-
-And listing worked.
-Noice.
-To automate it for future, and to allow non-root users to actually mount the drive I added a new mount to /etc/fstab:
-
-```shell
-10.0.1.200:/volume2/music /mnt/music nfs _netdev,noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=10,timeo=14,users,x-systemd.idle-timeout=1min 0 0
-```
-
-After the first user accesses /mnt/music, the drive will be mounted.
-
-
-## Playing the music using CMUS {#playing-the-music-using-cmus}
-
-We have access to the files, let's play it.
-Every modern music player for Linux should work with Flac, but I've chosen CMUS.
-It's fast, it's terminal based, and it supports VIM keybindings.
-
-[CMUS on Github](https://cmus.github.io/)
-
-```shell
-pacman -S cmus
-```
-
-After we open cmus, we need to add music.
-It's done similarly to VIM, via an ex command.
-
-```shell
-:add /mnt/music/
-```
-
-And a few seconds later, the music is visible in the player.
-Using CMUS requires reading the manual
-
-```shell
-man cmus-tutorial
-```
-
-but the basics I needed to play something from Artist/Album view were:
-
-| key | descrition |
-|-------|---------------------------------------|
-| j | go up |
-| k | go down |
-| tab | change active window (artists/tracks) |
-| space | expand artist to album list |
-| c | play track / pause track |
-| e | add track to queue |
-| q | exit |
-
-Extra bonus: after first configuring system I had some problems with audio not working from time to time.
-Moving from Pulse to Pipewire solved them all.
-
-[Pipewire webpage](https://pipewire.org/)
-
-
-## Listening on Mac via CMUS {#listening-on-mac-via-cmus}
-
-I have no idea how to auto mount a server on MacOS, so after every reboot or network change, I need access the Samba share via Finder.
-After it's mounted, I can access it under /Volumes/music.
-
-On Mac I also use CMUS, so all of the above apply as well.
-One difference is adding the files due to different location
-
-```shelll
-:add /Volumes/music
-```
-
-
-## Next up {#next-up}
-
-This doesn't solve all my needs. In the future I need to find out how to:
-
-- access the music outside my home network
-- how to marry this setup with my multiroom system (Sonos + Homepods)