LMS is a self-hosted media streaming software, released under the GPLv3 license. It allows you to access your music and your videos using an http(s) web interface.

Features

Winamp-like interface, suited for large media collections
Audio/Video transcode for maximum interoperability and low bandwith requirements
User management
Playlist support
MusicBrainzID support to handle duplicated artist and release names

Tags are automatically created to facilitate music searching, using:

Multi genre information from metadata
High-level information from AcousticBrainz

Please note LMS is still under development and will gain more features in the future:

Radio function
Interface suited for mobile devices
Video support
Subsonic and/or Ampache API

LMS is written entirely in C++. Therefore, it is suitable to run on embedded devices, where space and memory are limited. Please note some media files may require significant CPU usage to be transcoded.

Dependencies

Debian

$ apt-get install g++ autoconf automake libboost-dev libboost-locale-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libavcodec-dev libwtdbosqlite-dev libwthttp-dev libwtdbo-dev libwt-dev libmagick++-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libav-tools libpstreams-dev libcurl-dev libcurlpp-dev libconfig++-dev

Build

$ autoreconf -vfi
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc

configure will complain if a mandatory library is missing.

$ make -j 4

Install

$ make install

This command requires root privileges

Configuration

LMS uses a config file for low level settings:

database file path, default is /var/lms/lms.db
TLS settings, default is none
listen address/port, default is 0.0.0.0 port 5081

Other settings are set using the web interface. By default, LMS will read its configuration in the file '/etc/lms.conf'

Running

$ /usr/bin/lms [config_file]

LMS needs write access to the directory used for the database. It is highly recommended to run LMS as a non root user.

To connect to LMS, just open your favorite browser and go to http://localhost:5081

Mobile

Add the following code in your /etc/wt/wt_config.xml file:

<application-settings location="/usr/bin/lms">
	<progressive-bootstrap>true</progressive-bootstrap>
</application-settings>

Setting up SSL materials (optional)

Here is just a self signed certificate example, you could do use a CA if you want.

Generate a dh file:

$ openssl dhparam -out dh2048.pem 2048

Generate a self signed certificate:

$ openssl req -x509 -out cert.pem -keyout privkey.pem -newkey rsa:4096

Depending on your SSL parameters, you may be asked for the PEM passphrase to unlock the private key.

To connect to LMS, just open your favorite browser and go to https://localhost:5081

Credits

Wt (http://www.webtoolkit.eu/)
bootstrap3 (http://getbootstrap.com/)
libav project (https://www.libav.org/)
Magick++ (http://www.imagemagick.org/Magick++/)
MetaBrainz (https://metabrainz.org/)