Finally! This was the answer:

Create a directory for it through the File Manager. For example create /app/data/catalogs/music. You can upload new audio files to this folder now or later.

Kind of new to Linux, do not know anything about docker yet. But after following your reply, it finally worked!

I'm now going to delete it all, and re install to learn more about it.

Thank you very much for your reply, much appreciated.

Now I do not need a tall tree with a short rope, I can go for the short tree with the long rope! 🙂

Chris...

Took me forever to figure how to make ampache "public". For future note to self, the setting in config is use_auth to false

Since this is a very Ampache related question, this might better suited for their forum. See https://github.com/ampache/ampache#contact-us for various options . I guess you can also try posting at https://github.com/ampache/ampache/discussions

@girish Thanks 🙂

@girish said in Creating Icecast channel:

All this is unnecessarily complicated

You can say that again!

There's some notes here - https://github.com/ampache/ampache/wiki/subsonic .

@girish Sure thing

@nebulon Once this was set, it solved the issue.

This can be closed

@girish said in Subsonic API Backend not working:

@privsec I found the issue, it's a bug in the package (I put a note in the GitHub issue). Should have a new package out tomorrow.

Thank you so much for that!

Confirmed, this "issue" can be put to solved, Podcast works !

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Full log to see Ampache detecting new episodes, scanning which ones are already downloaded, downloding new ones and playing. https://paste.armada.digital/cowovotahe.makefile

@rmdes Nice! Good detective work 🙂

@rmdes I now have a clean installation, so I will re-approach this more carefully and try to understand what's happening

@robi Yes Musicbrainz and others do this well today, if your song match an existing hash you get a beautifully tagged library in no time, provided it's mainstream CDdb & other sources based, the link above mentions these possibilities.

Ampache can also do some of this, it has a bunch of API spots to fill for different services, spotify among them, to do just that if you also enabled iD3 rewriting based on what it gets from different sources.
I'm not using any of that but for example, just by activating some of the plugins to fetch artist data from different places, some of my mixes got a nice cover they did not have before, so this is working, even for mixes that have 2 decades already 🙂

It did upgrade before I manually tried, so that the reason 🙂
I confirm installing new themes work just fine !