Black candy is a self hosted music streaming server built with Rails and Hotwire. The goal of the project is to create a real personal music center.

Black candy use docker for simplify deployment, development and test process. So you should install docker and docker-compose first.

Black candy support mp3, m4a, ogg, oga, opus, flac, wma and wav formats now.

Black candy has built docker images. You can use docker compose to run all services.

First, you should ensure your music files stored under "/media_data"

Then run:

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aidewoode/black_candy/v2.0.1/docker-compose.yml > docker-compose.yml
$ docker-compose up -d

That's all. Now, you can use initial admin user to login (email: [email protected], password: foobar).

You can also change the docker-compose.yml for your own needs.

Note: When the SECRET_KEY_BASE environment variable is not set, Black candy will generate SECRET_KEY_BASE environment variable every time when service start up. This will cause old sessions invalid, You can set your own SECRET_KEY_BASE environment variable on docker service to avoid it.

Click the button above, then you can try black candy on Play with Docker.

When the service is ready, access black candy from port 80. Then use initial admin user to login (email: [email protected], password: foobar). This demo already contains some sample music file. You can go to the setting page and click the sync button of the media path to import the sample music into the database.

And feel free to try it.

• Kurt Vile - Live at WFMU on Talk's Cheap 8/11/2008 (licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0)

• Wooden Shjips - Live at ATP NY 2008 (licensed under Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States)

• Ty Segall - Live at WFMU on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T June 25, 2011 (licensed under Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States)

• Thee Oh Sees - Peanut Butter Oven EP (licensed under Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States)

If like their music, you can buy their albums to support them.

Pull new image from remote

$ docker pull blackcandy/blackcandy

Restart services:

$ docker-compose restart 

• Ruby 2.7
• Postgres 11
• Redis 6.0
• Nodejs 12
• Yarn 1.22
• Imagemagick 7
• ffmpeg 4.3

You can use nix to setup dev environment easily.

# First, install nix. You can check out the nix doc for more details.
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

# Then clone the repo.
$ git clone https://github.com/aidewoode/black_candy.git

# Change to the directory.
$ cd black_candy

# Go into nix shell, the nix shell will auto setup all dev requirements you need.
$ nix-shell 

# Install requirement gems.
$ bundle

# Install npm packages.
$ yarn

# Setup database.
$ rails db:setup

# Finally, start all services.
$ ./bin/dev 

# Runing test
$ rails test RAILS_ENV=test 

# Runing lint
$ rails lint:all 

Black candy support get artist and album image from Discogs API. You can create a API token from Discogs and set Discogs token on Setting page to enable it.