This page describes how to run the official Airsonic Docker image.
In order to install and run Airsonic using Docker, a working installation of Docker is required.
If you do not have Docker installed, you may follow these instructions to install it on your system.
Verify that Docker is installed by running
$ docker -v
Docker version 17.06.0-ce, build 02c1d87
Running the Airsonic Docker container is straight forward. Simply execute the command below.
docker run -p 4040:4040 -d airsonic/airsonic
You should be able to access Airsonic on http://localhost:4040 after a couple of seconds.
When running Docker this way all changes you make to Airsonic will be lost when stopping the container. Use Volumes to persist data when the container is stopped.
The Airsonic Docker file provides various mount points for volumes. You can see which by checking out the Dockerfile.
Attach volumes to your docker container when starting the container like so:
docker run \
-v data:/airsonic/data \
-v music:/airsonic/music \
-v playlists:/airsonic/playlists \
-v podcasts:/airsonic/podcasts \
-p 4040:4040 \
-d \
airsonic/airsonic
You can find additional information regarding volumes here. Inspect volumes by running, for example docker volume inspect data.
Configuring Airsonic is best done using the web-interface.
Regardless, you may at one point wish to configure Airsonic using the properties file.
You may adjust the airsonic.properties file directly. You can find it in the data volume that was attached to the container. Before making any changes to the file make sure that the Airsonic container is stopped.
If you did not supply another volume mountpoint the file will reside in /var/lib/docker/volumes/data/_data. You need administrator rights to modify it.
sudo nano /var/lib/docker/volumes/data/_data/airsonic.properties
Another way to configure Airsonic is by passing start-up arguments to the container when executing docker run. You may use the environment variable JAVA_OPTS to pass properties to Airsonic.
docker run \
-p 4040:4040 \
-e JAVA_OPTS="-DDatabaseMysqlMaxlength=512 -DDatabaseConfigType=embed ..." \
airsonic/airsonic
View the docker container start-up script for additional information.