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| title | author | date | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introducing Funkwhale | Fristi | 2022-11 | After some fiddling around on the server, I have managed to finally get a Funkwhale instance set up! |
Introducing Funkwhale
November 2022, by Fristi
After some fiddling around on the server, I have managed to finally get a Funkwhale instance set up! Funkwhale is a piece of software that will let us host our music libraries. You can listen to your and others' music from the web interface, or use any compatible app on your phone or tablet. Besides that, Funkwhale federates, much like our Akkoma instance. You will be able to listen to the libraries of people on other instances as well!
On a technical note, getting Funkwhale to work took a little bit of doing; it has been manually set up according to the installation instructions for Arch Linux, adapted here and there to suit Fedora. One remaining irk because of this, is that Funkwhale was not made with SELinux in mind. One remaining problem that you might run into is that freshly uploaded music may not play initially; this is caused by incorrect SELinux permissions. I have currently added a cronjob that will check these permissions and fix them every few minutes. If your music does not play, please wait a few minutes and try again.
For the time being, users will be limited to 5GB libraries. If needed, you may request to have this limit changed. Please do check before uploading if your music has already been uploaded by others; preventing duplicate uploads will help conserve space on the server.
Happy listening!