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Last year I removed all my music from Google Play Music and created my own subSonic server. I really like subSonic but don’t use it a huge amount, mostly for syncing some music to my phone prior to going on holiday or business. Therefore, I’ve made a single one time donation to the project rather than the ongoing monthly usage fee.
Installing subSonic on Debian
This is how I install subSonic on Debian Wheezy.
Install Tomcat.
sudo apt-get install tomcat7
Install subSonic.
apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo mkdir /var/subsonic
sudo chown tomcat7: /var/subsonic
sudo wget -c https://github.com/KHresearch/subsonic/releases/download/v4.9-kang/subsonic.war
sudo cp subsonic.war /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps
Restart Tomcat.
sudo service tomcat7 restart
Login to subSonic by visiting http://server.example.org:8080/subsonic and
login with the credentials admin and admin. Make sure you change the
password straight away.
Right, that is it. You can stop here and start filling subSonic with your music.
subSonic clients
On the rare occasions that I listen to music via subSonic I use UltraSonic for Android and Clementine on my Arch Linux workstations.