What is Airsonic Advanced? Airsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music. Use it to share your music with friends, or to listen to your own music while at work. You can stream to multiple players, for instance to one player in your kitchen and another in your living room.
Open the terminal or command prompt on your Linux Mint system.
Install the necessary dependencies by running the following command in your terminal:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless ffmpeg flac lame
Download Airsonic Advanced from GitHub by running the following command:
$ wget https://github.com/airsonic-advanced/airsonic-advanced/releases/download/vX.Y.Z/airsonic.war
Replace X.Y.Z with the latest version number. You can check the latest version number from here.
Create a folder for Airsonic Advanced and move the downloaded airsonic.war file to that folder:
$ sudo mkdir /opt/airsonic
$ sudo mv airsonic.war /opt/airsonic/
Start the Airsonic Advanced service using the following command:
$ sudo java -Xmx512m -jar /opt/airsonic/airsonic.war
Navigate to http://localhost:4040 in your web browser to access the Airsonic Advanced web interface. If you're using a remote system, replace localhost with the IP address of your system.
Follow the on-screen instructions to set up your music library and start using Airsonic Advanced.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Airsonic Advanced on your Linux Mint system. Enjoy streaming your music!
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