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linuxserver/beets

Beets is a music library manager and not, for the most part, a music player. It does include a simple player plugin and an experimental Web-based player, but it generally leaves actual sound-reproduction to specialized tools.

Supported Architectures

Our images support multiple architectures such as x86-64, arm64 and armhf. We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.

Simply pulling lscr.io/linuxserver/beets should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.

The architectures supported by this image are:

Architecture	Tag
x86-64	amd64-latest
arm64	arm64v8-latest
armhf	arm32v7-latest

Version Tags

This image provides various versions that are available via tags. latest tag usually provides the latest stable version. Others are considered under development and caution must be exercised when using them.

Tag	Description
latest	Stable Beets Releases
nightly	Built against head of Beets git, generally considered unstable but a likely choice for power users of the application.

Application Setup

Edit the config file in /config

To edit the config from within the container use beet config -e

For a command prompt as user abc docker exec -it -u abc beets bash

See Beets for more info.

Contains beets-extrafiles plugin, configuration details

Usage

To help you get started creating a container from this image you can either use docker-compose or the docker cli.

docker-compose (recommended, click here for more info)

---
version: "2.1"
services:
  beets:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/beets
    container_name: beets
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
    volumes:
      - </path/to/appdata/config>:/config
      - </path/to/music/library>:/music
      - </path/to/ingest>:/downloads
    ports:
      - 8337:8337
    restart: unless-stopped

docker cli (click here for more info)

docker run -d \
  --name=beets \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Europe/London \
  -p 8337:8337 \
  -v </path/to/appdata/config>:/config \
  -v </path/to/music/library>:/music \
  -v </path/to/ingest>:/downloads \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/beets

Parameters

Docker images are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.

Ports (-p)

Parameter	Function
8337	Application WebUI

Environment Variables (-e)

Env	Function
PUID=1000	for UserID - see below for explanation
PGID=1000	for GroupID - see below for explanation
TZ=Europe/London	Specify a timezone to use EG Europe/London.

Volume Mappings (-v)

Volume	Function
/config	Configuration files.
/music	Music library
/downloads	Non processed music

Miscellaneous Options

Parameter	Function

Environment variables from files (Docker secrets)

You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend FILE__.

As an example:

-e FILE__PASSWORD=/run/secrets/mysecretpassword

Will set the environment variable PASSWORD based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretpassword file.

Umask for running applications

For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional -e UMASK=022 setting. Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here before asking for support.

User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (-v flags), permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.

Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.

In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id user as below:

  $ id username
    uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)

Docker Mods

We publish various Docker Mods to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.

Support Info

• Shell access whilst the container is running:
  • docker exec -it beets /bin/bash
• To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:
  • docker logs -f beets
• Container version number
  • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' beets
• Image version number
  • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lscr.io/linuxserver/beets

Versions

• 19.12.19: - Rebasing to alpine 3.11.
• 28.06.19: - Rebasing to alpine 3.10.
• 12.05.19: - Add flac and mp3val binaries required for badfiles plugin.
• 12.04.19: - Rebase to Alpine 3.9.
• 23.03.19: - Switching to new Base images, shift to arm32v7 tag.
• 11.03.19: - Swap copyartifacts for extrafiles, update endpoints with nightly tag.
• 01.03.19: - Switch to python3.
• 07.02.19: - Add fftw-dev build dependency for chromaprint.
• 28.01.19: - Add pipeline logic and multi arch.
• 15.08.18: - Rebase to alpine 3.8, use alpine repo version of pylast.
• 12.08.18: - Add requests pip package.
• 04.03.18: - Upgrade mp3gain to 1.6.1.
• 02.01.18: - Deprecate cpu_core routine lack of scaling.
• 27.12.17: - Add beautifulsoup4 pip package.
• 06.12.17: - Rebase to alpine linux 3.7.
• 25.05.17: - Rebase to alpine linux 3.6.
• 06.02.17: - Rebase to alpine linux 3.5.
• 16.01.17: - Add packages required for replaygain.
• 24.12.16: - Add beets-copyartifacts plugin.
• 07.12.16: - Edit cmake options for chromaprint, should now build and install fpcalc, add gstreamer lib
• 14.10.16: - Add version layer information.
• 01.10.16: - Add nano and editor variable to allow editing of the config from the container command line.
• 30.09.16: - Fix umask.
• 24.09.16: - Rebase to alpine linux.
• 10.09.16: - Add layer badges to README.
• 05.01.16: - Change ffpmeg repository, other version crashes container
• 06.11.15: - Initial Release
• 29.11.15: - Take out term setting, causing issues with key entry for some users