Jamserve Audio Server

An audio library server written in Typescript for NodeJS

Preamble

This is my current pet project to manage/stream/edit my own music collection. It's not ready yet, a.k.a. work in progress. Everything is subject to change. Please do not use it for other than testing purposes until further notice.

This is the backend development repository. See

Jamberry for web-client development

Jampacked for mobile app development

Jam-Dockerimage Docker-Image for JamServe & Jamberry

Jam-Docker run JamServe & Jamberry with Docker

Features:

• REST & GraphQL API for Media Scanning, Streaming, Transcoding, MP3 ID3v2 Editing, User Management
• API Specs & Documentation with OpenAPI, see JamAPI
• Enhance Metadata via Musicbrainz, LastFM, Wikipedia, lyricsOVH & AcoustID
• Database Support for postgresql and SQLite for local development

Requirements

• install NodeJS >= 16.x and NPM

• install FFMPEG

  apt-get install ffmpeg

  manual installation: available in PATH or environment variable: FFPROBE_PATH and FFMPEG_PATH

optional for metadata matching & mp3 repair support

• install fpcalc

  apt-get install libchromaprint-tools

  manual installation: available in PATH or environment variable FPCALC_PATH

• install mp3val

  apt-get install mp3val

  manual installation: available in PATH or environment variable MP3VAL_PATH

• install flac

  apt-get install flac

  manual installation: available in PATH or environment variable FLAC_PATH

Installation

• run command npm install in the root folder of this repository
• in folder config: copy file firststart.config.dist.json to firststart.config.json and add an admin user / add some media folders (can be changed on runtime via the frontend UI)
• set environment variables or create an environment variables file .env

Environment Variables

Example .env file for debugging on localhost

## Server

# Server Domain URL (e.g. https://music.yourdomain.somewhere)
JAM_DOMAIN=http://localhost:4040

# Server listen address
JAM_HOST=0.0.0.0

# Server listen port
JAM_PORT=4040

# Log Level, possible values: 'error' | 'warn' | 'info' | 'debug'
JAM_LOG_LEVEL=debug

# JamServe data directory (NOT the media files)
JAM_DATA_PATH=./data/

# JamServe Frontend Path
JAM_FRONTEND_PATH=./static/jamberry/

## JSON Web Token https://jwt.io/

# An unique string for your instance to sign the jwt tokens
JAM_JWT_SECRET=keyboard cat is stomping

# Max Age for a valid jwt (set 0 for no expiration)
# possible values: 'year' | 'month' | 'week' | 'day' | 'hour' | 'minute'
JAM_JWT_MAXAGE=1 day


## Login: Cookie Session

# Due to CORS security you MUST name all domains where login with session cookie is allowed
# https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Origin_Resource_Sharing
# (background: random sites cannot access/create cookies for your domain)
JAM_ALLOWED_COOKIE_DOMAINS=http://localhost:4040,http://localhost:4200

# An unique string for your instance to sign the session cookie (change it!)
# http://www.senchalabs.org/connect/session.html
JAM_SESSION_SECRET=keyboard cat is dancing

# If true, session cookies are only available for https, NOT http
JAM_SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE=false

# If true, server trusts first reverse proxy like nginx
JAM_SESSION_TRUST_PROXY=false

# Max Age for a valid session cookie (set 0 for no expiration)
JAM_SESSION_MAXAGE=1 day

# DB to use: "postgres" 
# or: "sqlite" (does not support multiuser, so only use it for testing/development)
JAM_DB_DIALECT=sqlite

# Database name
JAM_DB_NAME=jam

# Database user
JAM_DB_USER=jam

# Database user password
JAM_DB_PASSWORD=jam

# Datebase Unix Socket Path to connect (or use host/port)
# NOT the socket itself /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432
JAM_DB_SOCKET=/var/run/postgresql/

# Datebase Host
JAM_DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

# Datebase Port
JAM_DB_PORT=5432

Example config/firststart.config.json:

/*
  Add Admin user and media folders on first start
 */
{
  /*
    Default Admin user
  */
  "adminUser": {
    "name": "admin",
    /*
      Since the default admin password is stored in clear in this file,
      you MUST change it on first login
    */
    "pass": "your admin password"
  },
  /*
    Default Media folders
    Scan strategies:
    'auto' -- try to figure it out
    'artistalbum' -- artist/album folder structure
    'compilation' -- bunch of compilation folders
    'audiobook' -- bunch of audiobook folders
   */
  "roots": [
    {"name": "Music", "path": "path/to/music", "strategy": "auto"},
    {"name": "Compilations", "path": "path/to/compilations", "strategy": "compilation"},
    {"name": "Soundtracks", "path": "path/to/soundtracks", "strategy": "compilation"},
    {"name": "Audiobooks", "path": "path/to/audiobooks", "strategy": "audiobook"}
  ]
}

Commands

Start

npm run start to run the server (available after a successful build)

Development Build

npm run build to build the server into dist/

Production Build

npm run build:prod to clean & build the server into dist/

Develop Full

npm run develop to run the server & rebuild/reload on source file changes

Develop Quick

run via tsnode which is faster, but nodejs worker_threads will not be used

npm run develop:tsnode to run the server & rebuild/reload on source file changes

Clean Dist

npm run clean to clean up the distribution folder

Test

npm run test to run all tests

Test Coverage

npm run coverage to run all tests & generate a coverage report