Sambience

Intro

A music server + web-ui bundle, built for a specific purpose.

After trying out a dozen MPD and Mopidy frontends I was disappointed that none had the usability of foobar2000 (including album shuffle).

This is specifically for setting up a hifi station on an RPI and allowing it to play endlessly through a selection of albums.

This is for you if you...

• want to setup a playlist and let it shuffle endlessly through albums
• do not need software volume control
• keep your own music library instead of using streaming services
• want to control a music player from various devices

Features

• Playlist Grouped by Artist + Album
• Playmodes: Album Shuffle, Song Shuffle, Song Repeat, Default
• Quickly Scan and Update Files through the UI
• tabbed playlists

Intentional Limitations

• no volume control
• no seeker
• no streaming external data or streaming through the UI
• no duplicate songs in one playlist

Possible Future Features

• custom sorting/grouping
• custom metadata attributes
• direct metadata writing

Installation

Docker

Example for the easy way on raspberry pi 2 or 3:

#cp and edit settings
cp settings.sample.json /home/user/sambience/settings.json
#build img (designed for rPI)
docker build -t sambience .
#run
docker run \
	--device /dev/snd:/dev/snd \
	-v /media/music:/media \
	-v /home/user/sambience:/data \
	-e APP_CONFIG=/data/settings.json \
	-p 8080:8080 \
	--name sambience \
	sambience

Custom

Requires Node.js, tested with v8.4+

• npm install to install dependencies
• npm run build to build UI
• cp settings.sample.json settings.json and change content as needed depending on your env
• npm run start to start the server process

CLI

• node bin/scan.js "PATH" to scan path for music and add to library
• node bin/update.js "PATH" updates files in path, can remove no longer existing files from lib

Debugging

Prefix DEBUG=sambience* to any command (scanning, starting) to see the debug log

Configuration

• database.type - only nedb right now
• database.music - nedb path to music db file
• database.playlist - nedb path to playlist db
• library.allowedFileExtensions - list of file extensions added to database in scan
• library.baseDirs - list of paths scanned during first start (when index is empty after loading)
• playback.player - player executable (mplayer/aplay/gst123)
• core.port - network port to listen to for web-ui

Changelog

v1.1

• mongodb support added
• switched from SSE to websockets