playlistd

A daemon and API for automatically updating Subsonic playlists from Listenbrainz data

Note: I've not actually tested this against Subsonic, only Navidrome

Building & running

This is a standard Rust project and should be uncomplicated to build and run. It does read some environment variables:

• SUBSONIC_BASE, your Subsonic instance's API base. For navidrome users, this is <protocol>://<host>/rest
• SUBSONIC_USERNAME, your Subsonic username
• SUBSONIC_PASSWORD, your Subsonic password
• DATABASE_URL, the URL for a Postgres database
• DAEMON_INTERVAL, how often to update playlists

For deploying, these can be configured in /etc/playlistd.toml.

Container build (Ubuntu 20.04)

podman run --rm --network=host -v "$PWD":/mnt -w /mnt -e "DATABASE_URL=postgres://jude@127.0.0.1/playlistd" playlistd cargo deb

How to use

Each of these will work best when your music library is well organised with Musicbrainz metadata.

Tracked playlist

A tracked playlist is a single Subsonic playlist that tracks data from Listenbrainz. For example, a playlist that contains your top 15 songs from the past week.

You can create a tracked playlist by inserting a row into the tracked_playlist table.

Tracked playlist rule

A tracked playlist rule is a time-based instruction to create a new tracked playlist. For example, a playlist every year that contains your top songs.

You can create a tracked playlist rule by inserting a row into the create_tracked_playlist table. For a yearly top songs playlist, run the following:

INSERT INTO create_tracked_playlist (id, name_template, playlist_size, tracking_user, tracking_type)
VALUES (gen_random_uuid(), '%Y - Top 100', 100, 'jellywx', 'this_year');