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Making your own local music server

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    Adam Kovic Adam Kovic
    Adam Kovic is a creative director and co-founder of Null+Void Creative. He spent a decade producing video content and brand campaigns for companies mostly owned or devoured by WarnerMedia.
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Making your own local music server
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What You Need

  • Docker Desktop — docker.com
  • A folder of music files. Don't have music? Go download some for free.

That's it. Install Docker Desktop, make sure the whale icon is running in your task/menubar, and move on.

Windows users: Docker requires virtualization to be enabled in your BIOS. Most modern machines have it on by default, but if Docker fails to start, search "enable virtualization [your PC model]" for instructions specific to your hardware.

Create the Project Folder

Open a terminal. On Mac that's Terminal, on Windows use PowerShell.

mkdir ~/navidrome
cd ~/navidrome

Create the Compose File

Open your favorite plain-text editor. Paste the code below into said editor and then save the file in plaintext as docker-compose.yaml or docker-compose.yml

services:
  navidrome:
    image: deluan/navidrome:latest
    ports:
      - "4533:4533"
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - "./data:/data"
      - "/path/to/your/music:/music:ro"

Replace /path/to/your/music with the actual path to your music folder.

Mac example: /Users/yourname/Music:/music:ro

Windows example: C:/Users/yourname/Music:/music:ro

Windows note: Use forward slashes, not backslashes. Docker runs a Linux container under the hood, so Windows-style paths like C:\Users\... will throw an error.
Saving the file on Windows: In Notepad, put the filename in quotes when saving — "docker-compose.yml" — otherwise Windows might save it as docker-compose.yml.txt.

Start Navidrome

docker compose up -d

Docker will pull the image on first run, then start Navidrome in the background. Open a browser and go to:

http://localhost:4533

Create an admin account when prompted. Navidrome will start scanning your music folder immediately.


Mobile Apps

Navidrome supports the Subsonic API, so it works with most third-party music apps out of the box:

  • iOS/Android: Symfonium, Substreamer, Ultrasonic, Amperfy
  • Connect using your local IP address (e.g. http://192.168.1.x:4533) while on the same network. Use the same login credentials that you made earlier and you're pretty much done. That is unless you want to...

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Adam Kovic Adam Kovic
Adam Kovic is a creative director and co-founder of Null+Void Creative. He spent a decade producing video content and brand campaigns for companies mostly owned or devoured by WarnerMedia.
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