How to Install Audioserve on NixOS Latest

Audioserve is a lightweight, stand-alone, web-based audiobook server that enables you to easily stream and organize your audiobooks. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the installation process of Audioserve on NixOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we start, make sure that you have the following requirements installed on your system:

• A running instance of NixOS Latest
• A terminal emulator

Step 1: Install Git

Audioserve is hosted on GitHub, so you need to install Git to be able to download the source code.

Open your terminal emulator and run the following command to install Git.

sudo nix-env -i git

Step 2: Clone Audioserve Repository

Once Git is installed, you can clone the Audioserve repository using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/izderadicka/audioserve.git

This will create a new directory called audioserve in your current directory, which contains the Audioserve source code.

Step 3: Install Dependencies

Audioserve has several dependencies that must be installed before you can run it. You can install these dependencies by running the following command from the audioserve directory:

nix-shell

This will create a new Nix shell environment with all the required dependencies installed.

Step 4: Configure Audioserve

Now that all the dependencies are installed, you can configure Audioserve. To do this, you need to create a configuration file called audioserve.toml.

To create this file, run the following command:

cp config.example.toml audioserve.toml

Then open the audioserve.toml file in your preferred text editor and modify the settings according to your preferences.

Step 5: Run Audioserve

To start Audioserve, you can run the following command from the audioserve directory:

cargo run --release

This will compile and start the Audioserve server.

To access Audioserve, open your web browser and go to http://localhost:3000.

Step 6: Add Audiobooks

To add audiobooks to Audioserve, you need to create a new directory inside the audioserve directory and place your audiobook files inside it.

For example, let's say you want to add an audiobook called sample.mp3. You would create a new directory called myaudiobooks inside the audioserve directory, like this:

cd audioserve
mkdir myaudiobooks

Then you would place the sample.mp3 file inside the myaudiobooks directory.

Once you have placed your audiobook files in the myaudiobooks directory, run the following command to add them to Audioserve:

cargo run --release -- add -p /path/to/myaudiobooks

This will add the audiobook files to the Audioserve library.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Audioserve on NixOS Latest. You also learned how to configure and add audiobooks to Audioserve.

You are now ready to organize, stream and listen to your favorite audiobooks using Audioserve.