How to Install NetJuke for SME Server

Why Netjuke? Why not simply stick with the MP3 Jukebox blade? Well, the Jukebox blade is great but it's slow on older server hardware and it requires a lot of thought in planning your directory structure. Netjuke uses a real, live MySQL database to store music info, so you can access your entire music collection by artist, track title, album title, genre -- or a random selection from any and all of the above.  

First create a MySQL database for netjuke:

[root@e-smith ]# mysqladmin create netjuke

[root@e-smith ]# mysql --user=root  mysql

mysql>GRANT ALL ON netjuke.* TO netjuke@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'netjukepassword';

mysql>flush privileges;

mysql>quit

Then create an ibay from the server manager:

I recommend not setting a password on this ibay as Netjuke has build-in access control.

From the console or shell prompt fire of the following commands. Make sure to get the latest version of netjuke from netjuke.org

[root@e-smith ]# cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/netjuke
[root@e-smith ]# wget http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/downloads/Netjuke/netjuke-1.0-rc2.tar.gz
[root@e-smith ]# tar -xvzf netjuke-1.0-rc2.tar.gz

This will unzip all files into a subfolder called "netjuke". What we have to do now is move the contents of THAT folder into the ibay's "html" folder. 

[root@e-smith ]# cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/netjuke/netjuke
[root@e-smith ]# mv * ../html/

[root@e-smith ]# cd ..

[root@e-smith ]# rmdir netjuke

Check to see that you can access the "netjuke" ibay from your network. If you cannot, you have a login name/password problem.

Now we're ready to run the installer. The next step is from a web browser:

http://(YOUR SME SERVER)/netjuke/installer/installer.php

You will be asked for the name of the netjuke database you created (most likely nejuke), user (most likely netjuke), and password (what was specified above in "netjukepassword" . You must also set up an admin login & password.

This will generate & offer to download a file named "inc-prefs.php". For a reason I don't know, I was unable to save it directly into the location it needs to be in, namely, the "etc" folder under the "html" folder in the netjuke ibay. So I saved it into the "html" folder, which I was able to access easily via Network Neighborhood, then used the Linux "mv" command from the console to move inc-prefs.php to the etc. folder, like so:

[root@e-smith ]# cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/netjuke/html
[root@e-smith ]# mv inc-prefs7.php ./etc/

[root@e-smith ]# chown -R admin:admin /home/e-smith/files/ibays/netjuke/html

[root@e-smith ]# chmod -R o-w /home/e-smith/files/ibays/netjuke/html

I also deleted the index.html file from the netjuke ibay, so I wouldn't get the default SME page if I neglected to specify "index.php" when logging in to the jukebox.

[root@e-smith ]# cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/netjuke/html
[root@e-smith ]# rm -rf index.html

Also deleted the "installer" directory for better security. 

[root@e-smith ]# rm -rf installer

Now you should be able to return to your web browser and access your new Netjuke setup with the following URL:

http://(YOUR SME SERVER)/netjuke

Use the Admin function to customize. I set my Security Mode to 0.1 so I could login from anywhere but no one could create a user. 

Now load some music: everything goes in /home/e-smith/files/ibays/netjuke/html/var/music

Once you've loaded some music, it's time to tell Netjuke what it is. Use the "Recursive File Finder"; it will go through all your music files and extract whatever information it can from ID3 tags on MP3 files.

Go back to "Browse" and enjoy.