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This product has charges associated with it for seller support. LMS, the lightweight open source music streaming server with a web player and a Subsonic compatible API, preinstalled behind nginx with ffmpeg transcoding. A unique administrator password and API key are generated on first boot. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.
Overview
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This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.
Overview LMS (Lightweight Music Server) is an open source, self hosted music streaming server that streams your personal music collection from anywhere through a fast in browser web player or any Subsonic compatible mobile and desktop app. Written in C++ on the Wt web toolkit, it is unusually light on memory and CPU for a full featured streaming server, and it keeps its catalogue in an embedded SQLite database. It scans the audio files you copy into its library and presents your albums, artists, genres and playlists with cover art, on the fly transcoding, and a Subsonic compatible API that a wide ecosystem of player apps already speak. This image delivers LMS fully built, configured and security hardened, so a complete music streaming platform is running within minutes of launch. The current release available is LMS 3.79.0.
Application Stack LMS is built from source and served behind an nginx reverse proxy on port 80, with ffmpeg for on the fly transcoding to any bitrate or format. The server binds the loopback interface only and is never exposed directly to the network. The music library, the SQLite catalogue and the transcode cache all live on a dedicated, independently resizable storage volume, and a nightly library scan keeps the catalogue current.
Secure By Default Upstream LMS opens a setup wizard to whoever reaches it first while no account exists. This image instead generates a unique administrator password and a separate Subsonic API key on every instance's first boot, before the server ever accepts a connection, and writes them to a root only file. No shared, default or guessable credential ships in the image, and the server itself listens only on the loopback interface behind the reverse proxy.
Ready To Use The LMS binary, web server and database are all configured. Browse to the instance address and sign in to the web player, copy your audio into the preconfigured library and run a scan, then connect any Subsonic compatible client app using the generated API key. LMS serves on whatever hostname or IP address you reach it on.
cloudimg Support 24/7 technical support by email and chat. Help with LMS deployment and configuration, the music library and scanning, connecting Subsonic client apps, transcoding, version upgrades and TLS termination.
Use Cases A private, self hosted music streaming server for your own collection; a Subsonic compatible backend for mobile and desktop player apps; a lightweight family or small team music library with per user accounts.
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Highlights
- LMS, the lightweight music streaming server, built from source and served behind nginx with ffmpeg transcoding, so you land on a working web player and Subsonic compatible API instead of compiling a C++ toolchain and configuring it by hand.
- Secure by default: a unique administrator password and a separate Subsonic API key are generated for every instance on first boot and stored in a root only file. No known default login ships, and the server listens only on the loopback interface behind the reverse proxy.
- 24/7 expert technical support from cloudimg, including deployment guidance, the music library and scanning, connecting Subsonic client apps, transcoding, version upgrades and TLS termination.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/hour |
|---|---|---|
m5.large Recommended | m5.large | $0.08 |
t2.micro | t2.micro instance type | $0.04 |
t3.micro | t3.micro instance type | $0.04 |
c5a.12xlarge | c5a.12xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
c5a.16xlarge | c5a.16xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
c5a.24xlarge | c5a.24xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
c5a.2xlarge | c5a.2xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
c5a.4xlarge | c5a.4xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
c5a.8xlarge | c5a.8xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
c5a.large | c5a.large instance type | $0.08 |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Version release notes
Initial release of the LMS Lightweight Music Server, built from source and preinstalled behind nginx with ffmpeg transcoding and hardened for secure-by-default first boot.
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Usage instructions
Connect via SSH on port 22 as the default login user for your operating system variant (the user guide lists it per variant; on Ubuntu it is 'ubuntu'). LMS is served on port 80. Retrieve the generated credentials with: sudo cat /root/lms-credentials.txt. Browse to http://<instance-public-ip>/ and sign in to the web player with the lms.admin.username and lms.admin.password from that file. Subsonic client apps use the lms.subsonic.apikey value as the password instead. Put your audio files in /var/lms/music and run a scan from Admin then Scan settings. Services are managed with systemctl (lms, nginx). To enable HTTPS, follow the Let's Encrypt section of the user guide.
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cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this product by email and live chat. Our engineers help with deployment, configuration, updates, performance tuning and troubleshooting; critical issues receive a one hour average response. Contact support@cloudimg.co.uk .
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