How to install CherryMusic on Windows 8 – an amazing simplistic but powerful music streaming server

Two of my best friends, Til and Tom, developed a music streaming server called CherryMusic (Tom’s post on Archlinux forum). It basically sets up a server that let’s you access your entire music library via your favorite browser from all your favorite devices via your favorite network.

To get started on Windows 8 (x64):

1.  install Python
2. download and unzip CherryMusic
3. [Windows Key] + [R] enter
   
   Java

   cmd

   1

   cmd

   
   and press ok
4. navigate to your CherryMusic root folder
5. start first run setup via
   
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   python cherrymusic --setup --port 8080

   1	python cherrymusic --setup --port 8080

6. navigate with your favorite browser to
   
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   http://localhost:8080

   1	http://localhost:8080

7. configure your own CherryMusic server for instance: set your music dictionary and your favorite server port and submit when you’re done
8. navigate to “C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\cherrymusic\cherrymusic.conf” and change
   
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   keep_session_in_ram = False

   1	keep_session_in_ram = False

   
   to
   
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   keep_session_in_ram = True

   1	keep_session_in_ram = True

9. and finally restart your server with
   
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   python cherrymusic

   1	python cherrymusic

Now you can connect to your CherryMusic server with every browser on every device (which supports HTML5 anyway) by entering the ip of your server as url.

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