Guidance on usage: Navidrome Streaming Server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Configuration and Connection to Navidrome Streaming Server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

  1. To start the server, run the VM through Azure Portal. You need to know your IP address. In the virtual machine, select “Overview” and the “Public IP Address” field will have the IP.
  1. To work, you must open port TCP 4533 in the network properties in the Azure firewall.
  1. After starting the VM, you can go to the main page. To do this, go to the following address http://*vm_ip*:4533.
  1. A page for creating a user with administrator rights will open. Fill out the form and click “Create admin” to complete it.
  1. Displayed empty page Navidrome Streaming Server
  1. To add audio to the library, you need to upload music to the server. For example, you can connect to a VM via PuTTY –  Download.
  2. Run PuTTY, enter the VM address in the “Host” field and click “Open” to connect.
  1. In the opened console you will need to enter a username and password that were specified when the VM has been created.
  1. Next window is displayed
  1.  All music will be automatically downloaded from the /media/music folder. First, you need to create a music folder, in which we will upload music. To do this, enter the following commands:

cd /navidrome/music

  1. Now you can upload audio files to this folder. To download a track via a direct link, you can use the following command.

sudo wget -O %file_name% %link_to music%

For instance:

sudo wget -O Omen.mp3 ‘https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1kaj9cpLcgwcu0hPp6N2cUE8cIzoWM31t&export=download‘

  1. Now return to the site and update the list of songs
  1.  If you did everything right, then on the main page should appear tracks that you can play directly from the browser.
  1.  More information on setting up and working with Navidrome can be found here.

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