Maintain iTunes Music Collection

Scripts for playing around with my music collection

Using the applications standalone or in docker

It shall be possible to execute te applications standalone or in a docker container

PostgreSQL

Pull PostgreSQL official image and start container, initially creating a database music.

docker pull postgres:alpine

Details at: https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres

cronpg

Application cronitml, parsing iTunes Music Library.xml and tracking the content in a database.

Git clone/fork this repository, and create a .env file with following environment variables.

ITUNES_MUSIC_DIR=your iTunes music directory
ITUNES_LIBRARY_FILE=iTunes Music Library.xml
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=your password
POSTGRES_DB=music
POSTGRES_HOST=your host ip address

When using the scripts from within a virtual machine iTunes music directory has to be mounted first.

Change directory to cronpg and setup python3 virtual environment.

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

Change dirctory to app and run script.

python3 cronpg.py

backend

Change directory to backend and setup python3 virtual environment.

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

Start uvicorn server.

uvicorn app.main:app --reload --workers 1 --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000