Airsonic Advanced

Airsonic Advanced is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music.

Use it to share your music with friends, or to listen to your own music while at work. You can stream to multiple players simultaneously, for instance to one player in your kitchen and another in your living room.

In this guide, we'll show you how to configure media folders and add a limited user for shared access.

For more information about this app, follow this link.

Use the Default Media Folders

• Airsonic Advanced sets up the following Media folders for you by default:

Music - /home/your_username/media/Music
Podcasts - /home/your_username/media/Podcasts

• You can add all your music and podcasts to the relevant directories. Airsonic Advanced scans them every day at 3:00 CET by default.

Set Additional Media Folders

• Go to Settings > Media folders
• In the Media folders section, you will see a subsection Add media folder.
• You can input any string for the Name field.
• For the Folder field, enter the path to the directory you wish to add.
• Example:

Name: My Cover Songs
Folder: /home/your_username/media/my-cover-songs

• Click on the Save button at the bottom.
• Then, click on the Scan Media folders now button to initialize a full scan of the folder. This will take a while, depending on the size of the library.

Organize Your Media Folders

• We recommend this folder structure for Airsonic to properly detect and organize the library.

Music
    Artist 1
        Album 1 (year)
            Artist 1 - Album 1 - Track 1.flac
    Artist 2
        Album 2 (Year)
        Album 3 (Year)

• You can automate this setup by using the following apps
• MusicBrainz Picard
• Lidarr

Add a Limited User

• Accessing and playing your library using a limited user is recommended over using your admin account because it prevents unauthorized or accidental changes to your Airsonic instance.
• To add a limited user, go to Settings > Users
• Under the dropdown menu, select -New user--
• Then tick the permissions needed.
• Since this is a limited account, DO NOT tick Administrative user
• Tick all the media folders you want to access
• At the end of the page, you need to add a username, an email address (you can use any address here), and set a password.
• After completing the fields, click Save.

If you require further assistance, you can open a support ticket here.

• Airsonic Advanced
• Use the Default Media Folders
• Set Additional Media Folders
• Organize Your Media Folders
• Add a Limited User