Build a personal music website

Use Rclone to mount Onedrive song files, and deploy Navidrome to build a website using Docker.

Rclone#

First, you need to run it on a Windows system to obtain the configuration, and then install and mount the files on the server.

Get Token#

Download Rclone on your Windows computer, download link: https://rclone.org/downloads/

After downloading, extract the files. Once the extraction is complete, navigate to the folder using cmd and run the following command:

rclone.exe authorize "onedrive"

Login and authorize in the browser that pops up. After authorization, the Token will be printed (including the curly braces).

Get Configuration File#

Run the command:

rclone.exe config

Choose according to your needs. After completion, the configuration file will be generated at:

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\rclone

Copy Configuration File#

First, create two folders on the server:

# This folder contains the configuration file
/home/docker/rclone/config
# This folder contains the data, i.e., the folder mapped to Onedrive
/home/docker/rclone/data

Then, place the configuration file in the corresponding folder.

Mount Directory#

Run the command to pull the image:

docker pull rclone/rclone:latest

Mount the directory:

docker run --rm \
    --volume /root/rclone/config:/config/rclone \
    --volume /root/rclone/data:/data:shared \
    --volume /etc/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro --volume /etc/group:/etc/group:ro \
    --device /dev/fuse --cap-add SYS_ADMIN --security-opt apparmor:unconfined \
    rclone/rclone \
    mount music:/ /data/music --allow-other --allow-non-empty --vfs-cache-mode writes &
# The above command is only the last line for the Rclone command. Modify it according to the actual situation. The format is as follows:
rclone mount DriveName:Folder LocalFolder
# DriveName: The name of the Rclone mount
# Folder: The path of the cloud drive
# LocalFolder: The file mounted locally

The & at the end of the above command indicates running in the background. After executing the command, the PID of the process will be printed. To close it, use the command:

kill PID

Want to learn more? Visit: Chapter 6 of Linux Learning: Managing Running Processes

Based on the example, here we demonstrate mounting the music directory (case-insensitive) in Onedrive to /home/docker/rclone/data/music

References:

Deploy Navidrome#

Using docker-compose, first create a folder, for example:

/home/docker/navidrome

Create a file docker-compose.yml and fill in the content:

vim docker-compose.yml
# Enter the content
version: "3"
services:
  navidrome:
    image: deluan/navidrome:latest
    ports:
      - "8001:4533"
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      # Optional: put your config options customization here. Examples:
      ND_SCANSCHEDULE: 1h
      ND_LOGLEVEL: info  
      ND_SESSIONTIMEOUT: 24h
      ND_BASEURL: ""
    volumes:
      - "/home/docker/navidrome/data:/data"
      - "/home/docker/rclone/data/music:/music:ro"

View more variables: Navidrome Configuration Options | Navidrome

Then run the command:

docker-compose up -d

Access IP:8001 to use.

References:

Song Information#

If you want to categorize songs, you need to embed song information, including lyrics, into the songs.

You can use the tool MusicTag to modify them.

Author's website: Music Tag PC Version

Of course, there are other tools available, or you can use this web version: xhongc/music-tag-web

Using Clients#

This web version works fine on PC, but it's not very user-friendly on mobile. Fortunately, there are some clients available.

For more details, visit: https://www.navidrome.org/docs/overview/#apps