Add media - agrbin/songuess GitHub Wiki

Adding a media server to songuess is a hard and unwelcoming experience.

Requirements

• First of all you need a linux machine (or a mac with gcc and homebrew) and some music stored as mp3 files.
• You need to install node and npm. How to install node.js
• Then you will need some packages: apt-get install lame ffmpeg (or brew install lame)
• Lots of CPU time. We need to re-encode every song, cca 5s for a single mp3.
• Public IP or port-forwarding to your machine

Creating a media database

• git clone https://github.com/agrbin/songuess/; cd songuess/media/

• npm install

• in current dir (songuess/media/) create a symbolic link to a music directory you want share with your friends. ln -s /path/to/your/music/ mp3

• cd utils; make;

• node rescan_library.js

Some warnings on output are normal. rescan_library.js must be called every time when song is deleted or added to a music directory. If mp3 file has the same INODE re-encoding won't be done.

Reporting database to master server

• change dir to songuess/media/server

• open up a browser, navigate to songuess and enter the /token command. Copy the output.

• create file songuess/media/server/config.override.js (it is git-ignored)

module.exports = function (exports) {
  exports.masterServer = 'http://songuess.jit.su';
  exports.media.name = 'NAME-THIS-SERVER';
  exports.media.owner = 'YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS';
  exports.media.token = 'TOKEN-ECHOED-BY-GAME-FOR-THIS-EMAIL';
  exports.media.acl = [
    ['allow', 'email', 'YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS']
  ];
};

• start a server! node app.js

• if you see Hello: i see you. you are done!

Troubleshoot

If you want to re-encode everything you can.

rm -rf songuess/media/chunks songuess/media/library/library.json
node songuess/media/utils/rescan_library.js