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75 lines
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# LMS - Lightweight Music Server
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[](https://github.com/epoupon/lms/releases)
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_LMS_ is a self-hosted music streaming software: access your music collection from anywhere using a web interface!
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A [demo instance](http://lms-demo.poupon.dev) is available. Note the administration panel is not available.
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## Main features
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* Recommendation engine
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* Audio transcoding for maximum interoperability and reduced bandwith requirements
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* Multi-value tags: `genre`, `albumgenre`, `mood`, `albummood`, `albumgrouping`, ...
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* Artist relationships: `composer`, `conductor`, `lyricist`, `mixer`, `performer`, `producer`, `remixer`
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* [Release types](https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Release_Group/Type): `album`, `single`, `EP`, `compilation`, `live`, ...
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* [MusicBrainz Identifier](https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Identifier) support to handle duplicated artist and release names
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* [ListenBrainz](https://listenbrainz.org) support for:
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* Scrobbling and synchronizing listens
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* Synchronizing 'love' feedbacks
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* ReplayGain support
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* User management, with several [authentication backends](INSTALL.md#authentication-backend)
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* Subsonic API
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## Music discovery
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_LMS_ provides several ways to help you find the music you like:
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* Tag-based filters (ex: "_Rock_", "_Metal_ and _Aggressive_", "_Electronic_ and _Relaxed_", ...)
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* Recommendations for similar artists and albums
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* Radio mode, with endless filling of the play queue with tracks similar to what is there
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* Searches in album, artist and track names (including sort names)
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* Starred Albums/Artists/Tracks
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* Random/Starred/Most played/Recently played/Recently added for Artist/Albums/Tracks, allowing you to search for things like:
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* Recently added _Electronic_ artists
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* Random _Metal_ and _Aggressive_ albums
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* Most played _Relaxed_ tracks
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* Starred _Jazz_ albums
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* ...
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## Subsonic API
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The API version implemented is 1.16.0 and has been tested on _Android_ using _Subsonic Player_, _Ultrasonic_, _Symfonium_, and _DSub_.
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Since _LMS_ uses metadata tags to organize music, a compatibility mode is used to browse the collection when using the directory browsing commands.
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The Subsonic API is enabled by default.
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__Note__: since _LMS_ may store hashed and salted passwords or may forward authentication requests to external services, it cannot handle the __token authentication__ method. You may need to check your client to make sure to use the __password__ authentication method.
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## About tags
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_LMS_ relies exclusively on tags to organize your music collection.
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### Filtering
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You can specify the tags you want to use to filter your collection. By default, `genre`, `albumgrouping`, `mood` and `albummood` tags are used.
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In the administration panel, you can set whatever tags you want, even custom tags.
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__Note__: you can use the `lms-metadata` tool to have an idea of the tags parsed by _LMS_ using [TagLib](https://github.com/taglib/taglib).
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### Multiple album artists
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_LMS_ requires the `ALBUMARTISTS` and `ALBUMARTISTSSORT` tags to properly handle multiple album artists on the same album. As they are a custom tags, you may need to setup your favorite tagger to add them.
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__Note__: if you use [Picard](https://picard.musicbrainz.org/), add the following script to include these tags:
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```
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$setmulti(albumartists,%_albumartists%)
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$setmulti(albumartistssort,%_albumartists_sort%)
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```
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## Keyboard shortcuts
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* Play/pause: <kbd>Space</bbd>
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* Previous track: <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Left</kbd>
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* Next track: <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Right</kbd>
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## Installation
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See [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md) file.
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## Contributing
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Any feedback is welcome:
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* feel free to participate in [discussions](https://github.com/epoupon/lms/discussions) if you have questions,
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* report any bug or request for new features in the [issue tracker](https://github.com/epoupon/lms/issues),
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* submit your pull requests based on the [develop](../../tree/develop) branch.
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