How to Install Supysonic on NixOS Latest

Supysonic is an open-source media server that streams music from your computer to any device with a web browser. If you want to install Supysonic on NixOS latest, follow these steps:

Step 1: Update Your System

First, make sure your system is up-to-date by running the following command:

sudo nixos-rebuild switch

Step 2: Install Supysonic Dependencies

Supysonic requires Python 3.5 or later, so you need to install it if you haven't already. Open a terminal and run the following command:

sudo nix-env -i python3.7

You also need to install the following dependencies:

Run the following command to install them:

sudo nix-env -i libffi libjpeg libpng libvorbis libxml2 zlib

Step 3: Download and Install Supysonic

Now, you can download Supysonic from GitHub using Git command:

git clone https://github.com/spl0k/supysonic.git

After you have downloaded Supysonic, you need to install it. Navigate into the directory where you downloaded it, and from there run the following command:

sudo python3.7 setup.py install

Step 4: Configure Supysonic

Before running Supysonic server, you need to create a configuration file for it. You can create the configuration file by copying a sample configuration file located in ~/.config/supysonic/sample_config.py to ~/.config/supysonic/config.py. Open the configuration file and edit the settings to your liking. You can put your music files wherever you want, and specify the directories in the configuration file.

Step 5: Run Supysonic

After you have configured Supysonic, you can start the server by running the following command:

supysonic

Now that the server is running, you can access it by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8080/. If you want to access the server from another device on your network, you can input the IP address of your NixOS latest machine with port number 8080 into the web browser.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Supysonic on NixOS latest.

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