How to Install Supysonic on macOS

Supysonic is a powerful, lightweight web-based music player that allows you to stream and manage your music from anywhere. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Supysonic on macOS.

Prerequisites

Before we get started, you'll need to make sure that you have a few things installed on your system:

If you don't have these installed, you can install them using Homebrew. Open your Terminal and run the following command:

brew install python git

Installation

Once you have the prerequisites installed, you can install Supysonic by following these steps:

  1. Open your Terminal and clone the Supysonic repository from GitHub using the following command:

    git clone https://github.com/spl0k/supysonic.git
    
  2. Change your working directory to the Supysonic folder:

    cd supysonic
    
  3. Use pip to install the required Python packages:

    pip install -r requirements.txt
    
  4. Now that the dependencies are installed, you can start the Supysonic server using the following command:

    python supysonic.py
    
  5. Next, you'll need to create a user account. Open a new Terminal window and run the following command:

    curl -u admin:admin http://localhost:8080/user/create?name=<name>&password=<password>
    

    Replace <name> and <password> with your desired username and password.

  6. Once you've created a user account, you can log in to the Supysonic web interface by navigating to http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Supysonic on macOS. With Supysonic, you can stream and manage your music collection from anywhere. Enjoy!

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