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Homebrew installation

This page describes how to run install Airsonic with Homebrew on macOS Airsonic Homeprew tap.

This installation method is designed for easy install and upgrades, and uses sane defaults. It might not work as well for very particular / special configurations.

Prerequisites

In order to install and run Airsonic, you will need:

Installing

The Airsonic formula currently resides in a custom project tap. It will be submitted to the official Homebrew formula repo at a future date.

brew tap airsonic/airsonic
brew install airsonic
Upgrading
brew upgrade airsonic
Using Homebrew Services (preferred)
brew services start airsonic
Using launchd
cp `(brew --prefix)`/Cellar/airsonic/10.6.2/homebrew.mxcl.airsonic.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.airsonic.plist
Using launchd (headless)
cp `(brew --prefix)`/Cellar/airsonic/10.6.2/homebrew.mxcl.airsonic.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/
Runtime settings used

Here is a brief list of the runtime flags used, for reference.

Xmx512m
Dlogging.file=#{var}/log/airsonic.log
Dlogging.level.root=ERROR
Dserver.host=0.0.0.0
Dserver.port=4040
Dserver.context-path=/
Dairsonic.home=#{workingdir}
Djava.awt.headless=true
Updating Runtime settings

Use your favorite text editor and open $(brew --prefix)/Cellar/airsonic/10.6.2/homebrew.mxcl.airsonic.plist

Edit any of the following properties:

<string>-Xmx512m</string>  <!-- Max Memory -->
<string>-Dlogging.file=/usr/local/var/log/airsonic.log</string>
<string>-Dlogging.level.root=ERROR</string>
<string>-Dserver.host=0.0.0.0</string>
<string>-Dserver.port=4040</string>
<string>-Dserver.context-path=/</string>  <!-- localhost:port/context-path, e.g.: /airsonic -->
<string>-Dairsonic.home=/usr/local/var/airsonic</string>
<string>-Djava.awt.headless=true</string>
<string>-jar</string>
<string>/usr/local/Cellar/airsonic/10.6.2/airsonic.war</string>