Install CherryMusic on Ubuntu for Personal Spotify Server

CherryMusic is a browser-based music streaming jukebox. With CherryMusic on Ubuntu you can create your own personal Spotify-like server for your local music collection. The music can be stored locally on the server or on a NAS. You will be able to play your entire music collection through a web browser. If you can access your Linux server through the internet you can enjoy your music from anywhere. Personally I use this free Dynamic DNS service to make CherryMusic access convenient. You can of course use your private VPN server too. CherryMusic support reverse proxies for additional ease. This will work on Ubuntu 14.x and Ubuntu 15.x and later.

CherryMusic essentially turns your Ubuntu server into your personal Spotify for your music collection giving you a cloud music server.

Install CherryMusic on Ubuntu

Update your repos and upgrade your packages

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Install CherryMusic dependencies

sudo apt-get install python python-pip git python-unidecode sqlite -y

Install CherryPy 3.6.0

sudo pip install CherryPy==3.6

Install imagemagick for displaying album thumbnails, lame mp3 encoder, flac encoder and vorbis tools (for ogg music). If you do not have any flac or ogg files you can remove the vorbis-tools and flac.

sudo apt-get install imagemagick lame vorbis-tools flac -y

Pull the latest CherryMusic for github and put it in the installation folder

sudo git clone --branch devel https://github.com/devsnd/cherrymusic.git /opt/cherrymusic

Change ownership of the CherryMusic folder to your user that has permissions to your music collection

sudo chown -R user:user /opt/cherrymusic

Run the CherryMusic initial setup, adjust the port you want to use.

You can open the CherryMusic web interface on its local IP http://ip.address:7600 on any machine in your home network

python /opt/cherrymusic/cherrymusic --setup --port 7600

Complete the initial CherryMusic setup by choosing the path to your music downloads and click Save and start CherryMusic

Now create the CherryMusic admin user. When you're done, hit Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Z back in your SSH session to terminate the CherryMusic process.

Then complete the rest of the guide to start CherryMusic automatically on boot.

Options can be adjusted in here if you want to change the music path or port.

nano ~/.config/cherrymusic/cherrymusic.conf

When you're done making changes hit Ctrl+X, Y and Enter to save

CherryMusic init.d Script

This will autostart CherryMusic on boot for Ubuntu server.

Create the CherryMusic init.d script

sudo nano /etc/init.d/cherrymusic

Paste this working CherryMusic init.d script, change the user to your user that has permissions to the music on your system.

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          Cherrymusic
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Cherrymusic
# Description:       Cherrymusic for music streaming
### END INIT INFO
 
 
# Documentation available at
# http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptfunc.html
# Debian provides some extra functions though
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
 
 
DAEMON_NAME="cherrymusic"
DAEMON_USER=user
DAEMON_PATH="/usr/bin/python"
DAEMON_OPTS="/opt/cherrymusic/cherrymusic"
DAEMON_PWD="${PWD}"
DAEMON_DESC=$(get_lsb_header_val $0 "Short-Description")
DAEMON_PID="/var/run/${DAEMON_NAME}.pid"
DAEMON_NICE=0
DAEMON_LOG='/var/log/cherrymusic'
 
[ -r "/etc/default/${DAEMON_NAME}" ] && . "/etc/default/${DAEMON_NAME}"
 
do_start() {
  local result
 
	pidofproc -p "${DAEMON_PID}" "${DAEMON_PATH}" > /dev/null
	if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
		log_warning_msg "${DAEMON_NAME} is already started"
		result=0
	else
		log_daemon_msg "Starting ${DAEMON_DESC}" "${DAEMON_NAME}"
		touch "${DAEMON_LOG}"
		chown $DAEMON_USER "${DAEMON_LOG}"
		chmod u+rw "${DAEMON_LOG}"
		if [ -z "${DAEMON_USER}" ]; then
			start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --background \
				--nicelevel $DAEMON_NICE \
				--chdir "${DAEMON_PWD}" \
				--pidfile "${DAEMON_PID}" --make-pidfile \
				--exec "${DAEMON_PATH}" -- $DAEMON_OPTS
			result=$?
		else
			start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --background \
				--nicelevel $DAEMON_NICE \
				--chdir "${DAEMON_PWD}" \
				--pidfile "${DAEMON_PID}" --make-pidfile \
				--chuid "${DAEMON_USER}" \
				--exec "${DAEMON_PATH}" -- $DAEMON_OPTS
			result=$?
		fi
		log_end_msg $result
	fi
	return $result
}
 
do_stop() {
	local result
 
	pidofproc -p "${DAEMON_PID}" "${DAEMON_PATH}" > /dev/null
	if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
		log_warning_msg "${DAEMON_NAME} is not started"
		result=0
	else
		log_daemon_msg "Stopping ${DAEMON_DESC}" "${DAEMON_NAME}"
		killproc -p "${DAEMON_PID}" "${DAEMON_PATH}"
		result=$?
		log_end_msg $result
		rm "${DAEMON_PID}"
	fi
	return $result
}
 
do_restart() {
	local result
	do_stop
	result=$?
	if [ $result = 0 ]; then
		do_start
		result=$?
	fi
	return $result
}
 
do_status() {
	local result
	status_of_proc -p "${DAEMON_PID}" "${DAEMON_PATH}" "${DAEMON_NAME}"
	result=$?
	return $result
}
 
do_usage() {
	echo $"Usage: $0 {start | stop | restart | status}"
	exit 1
}
 
case "$1" in
start)   do_start;   exit $? ;;
stop)    do_stop;    exit $? ;;
restart) do_restart; exit $? ;;
status)  do_status;  exit $? ;;
*)       do_usage;   exit  1 ;;
esac

Make the CherryMusic init.d script executable

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/cherrymusic

Tell the Ubuntu system to use the CherryMusic startup script

sudo update-rc.d cherrymusic defaults

If the CherryMusic init.d script fails you can use a cronjob.

Add a cronjob to make CherryMusic automatically start on boot.

crontab -l | { cat; echo "@reboot cd /opt/cherrymusic ; /usr/bin/python cherrymusic"; } | crontab -

Reboot to make sure CherryMusic is autostarting on boot

sudo reboot

If it fails you can always start CherryMusic manually

python /opt/cherrymusic/cherrymusic

You can now finishing setting up CherryMusic by going to the web interface after it reboots. It is fairly self-explanatory and easy to set up.

The CherryMusic default port and web inteface is http://ip.address:7600

If you want to be able to access CherryMusic outside your home network with a free Dynamic DNS address follow this guide and then port forward 7600 on your router or which ever custom port you set.