Hi all,

Has anyone successfully implemented beets on their unraid server?

 

http://beets.radbox.org/

 

Would it even be possible?

I assume by 'implemented' you mean can it run?

 

And of course it can, its just a python script, much like sabnzbd, sickbeard etc are.

 

It should be as simple as running the command 'python path/to/beets.py import /mnt/Music/' or whatever (i dont use beets, i just got those arguments from their github)

 

If ive missed the point i appologize, the question just wasnt that clear to me.

I have looked into this and I would like to get it set up.  I just have not found the time to do so... It is on the list but probably will not happen for a while.

Hi Swixxy, yep i mean just to be able to run it im just not that familiar with how to make third party apps run nicely with unraid. Ive got sickbeard sab etc running, i just wondered whether someone had done i already, rather than me tinkering until i break something..!

 

Prostuff1, good to hear your working on it, your work is apreciated

 

cheers, Brett

Look at the write-up for running Python based programs on unRAID that is in the Wiki. They are all done a similar way, basically install the dependencies which you will already have if you're running other Python apps so then you just unpackage the new source into a directory and run it. You can use the Wiki info and modify it a little for another app to have start/stop buttons or start on boot.

For anyone that's interested, here's what I did to get beets working;

 

If you're not happy working from command line, please give this a miss.  But since beets is a command line tool, I figure anyone wanting to use it is willing to get their hands dirty.

 

Things you'll need;

Python

Sqlite

SetupTools

Pip

Beets

 

If you're already running SABnzbd, SickBeard, CouchPotato then you've got the first two already. 

 

For completeness and on a fresh Unraid server, I manually installed everything using Python 2.6 as that's the one which the plugins use;

 

1. Download and install Python 2.6

cd /boot/packages
wget http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/slackware/d/python-2.6.4-i486-1.txz
installpkg python-2.6.4-i486-1.txz

 

2. Download and install Sqlite

cd /boot/packages
wget http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/slackware/ap/sqlite-3.6.23.1-i486-1.txz
installpkg sqlite-3.6.23.1-i486-1.txz

 

3. Download and install setuptools (needed to install Beet using python setup.py)

cd /boot/packages
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
./setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg

 

4. Download and install Beet.  First install PIP as an easy way to install Beet.  (you could disregard pip and directly download beet .gz, untar and run the setup.py)

cd /boot/packages
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-1.1.tar.gz
tar --no-same-owner -xf pip-1.1.tar.gz
cd pip-1.1
python setup.py install
pip install beets

 

That should install a basic working copy of beet.  At this point you'll need to give some thought to where to store the .beetsconfig and .blb music database.  By default, they will live in /root, so will not survive a reboot.  You can specify different locations on command line or within the .beetsconfig file.

 

Read the beet documentation at http://readthedocs.org/docs/beets/en/1.0b13/index.html

 

To test beet, create a simple .beetsconfig file in /root;

 

/root/.beetsconfig

[beets]
directory: /mnt/user/music
library: ~/musiclibrary.blb

 

test beet;

beet import /someincomingmusicdir

 

I'm currently struggling trying to get the replaygain plugin working.  There are a number of dependencies.  I've been able to satisfy most by installing;

gstreamer-0.10.32-i486-1

gst-plugins-base-0.10.32-i486-1

gst-plugins-good-0.10.28-i486-2

gst-python-0.10.18-i486-1gsb

 

I think it also needs 'pygtk-2.22.0-i486-1', by still I'm getting an error

ImportError: No module named pygtk

 

Any help with above error would be appreciated!

 

 

Regards,

RJ

Also just a quick note, but the python app Headphones uses beets to organise your music collection, similar to sickbeard & so on.

 

It can be found here

https://github.com/rembo10/headphones

 

Then you just run it by having inside your go file

 

# give nobody shell access
usermod -s /bin/bash nobody
# Run Headphones app as user nobody
su nobody -c "python /mnt/cache/.headphones/Headphones.py -d"

 

This is assuming Headphones is extracted inside the .headphones folder in the cache drive, change the path depending on where you extract it obviously.