How to get music in?

[jdaviescoates]

I already have a Volume called Music at /media/Music so I mounted that in the Storage settings of the app and then as per the docs here https://docs.funkwhale.audio/administrator/configuration/env-file.html I created the following within env.sh using the File Manager

MEDIA_ROOT="/media/Music"

also tried:

MEDIA_ROOT=/media/Music

Neither resulted in anything being displayed in Funkwhale.

Has anyone got this working yet?

Thanks!

PS I thought we normally had env instead of env.sh in Cloudron apps these days?

[james]

Hello @jdaviescoates

Please try to use:

export MEDIA_ROOT="/media/Music"

in the /app/data/env.sh file.

[joseph]

@jdaviescoates said:

PS I thought we normally had env instead of env.sh in Cloudron apps these days?

env.sh -> export required
env -> no export required

[jdaviescoates]

@james said:

Hello @jdaviescoates

Please try to use:

export MEDIA_ROOT="/media/Music"

in the /app/data/env.sh file.

That didn't seem to make any difference. Any my server is running out of space so for now I've just deleted the app to free app a little.

[rmdes]

@jdaviescoates you should mount the volume at /app/data/music in Cloudron's Storage settings instead of /media/Music.

The package already expects music files at /app/data/music/, nginx already serves from there, and the env vars already point there. No env.sh changes needed, just change the mount point in Cloudron's UI.

I have not tested with a volume mount (I'm still loading all my collection within /app/data/music natively in the container, but I will transition to volume mount soon

[rmdes]

Another way to import music fast :

In-place import means Funkwhale indexes your music files without copying them — it reads the metadata (tags) and creates database entries, then streams directly from the original location.

In the Cloudron context, it would work like this:

1. Mount the volume at /app/data/music in Cloudron's Storage settings
2. Files are immediately visible to Funkwhale - MUSIC_DIRECTORY_PATH already points there
3. Import via CLI from the web terminal:

/app/code/manage.sh import_files <library_id> "/app/data/music/" --in-place --recursive

3. (Get your library ID from the Funkwhale web UI, create a library first if you haven't)
4. Streaming works because nginx already serves /_protected/music/ from /app/data/music/ via X-Accel-Redirect, the files are served directly, no duplication

The package even has scheduler tasks for maintaining in-place imports:

• check_inplace_files_check - dry-run to see if any referenced files are missing
• check_inplace_files_apply - actually update the database for missing files

So the key point for the user: mount at /app/data/music, then in-place import just works out of the box. Their files stay on the mounted volume, Funkwhale only stores metadata in PostgreSQL, and nginx serves the audio directly from disk.

[jdaviescoates]

@rmdes said:

So the key point for the user: mount at /app/data/music

But unless I've misunderstood Cloudron Volumes cannot be mounted there, they are always at /media/volume-name , no?

Perhaps it's possible to symlink or something?

But, I think if I set MUSIC_DIRECTORY_PATH to (in my case) /media/Music I'd guess it would've worked... will have another play...