Self-host leafplayer

docker run -d
-e "APP_SECRET=supersecret"
-v "/path/to/your/music:/music:ro"
-v "leafplayer-storage:/var/lib/leafplayer"
-p "127.0.0.1:3000:3000"
--name leafplayer
paulschwoerer/leafplayer

specify the version to use

LP_VERSION="1.0.0"

specify the Leafplayer directory

LP_DIRECTORY="/opt/leafplayer"

specify a user to run Leafplayer as

LP_USER="lpuser"

add the user

adduser "$LP_USER"

create the Leafplayer directory

sudo mkdir "$LP_DIRECTORY"

download the specified release

wget -P /tmp "https://github.com/paulschwoerer/leafplayer/releases/download/v$LP_VERSION/leafplayer-v$LP_VERSION.zip"

unzip release

sudo unzip -q "/tmp/leafplayer-v$LP_VERSION.zip" -d "$LP_DIRECTORY"

give the Leafplayer user permission to write to the directory

sudo chown -R $LP_USER "$LP_DIRECTORY"

install dependencies

cd "$LP_DIRECTORY" && npm install

finally, remove downloaded file

rm "/tmp/leafplayer-v$LP_VERSION.zip"

create storage directory

sudo mkdir /var/lib/leafplayer chown "$LP_USER" /var/lib/leafplayer

start the server

cd "$LP_DIRECTORY" NODE_ENV=production APP_SECRET=supersecret node main.js serve