Overview

This is a simple Flask app to manually track music releases you listen to. It's similar to RateYourMusic but has no community aspect.

There are a few things to note before you use it:

• Genre should be as generic as possible
• Use 'tags' like subgenres; i.e. genre: rock and tags: alternative,soft = soft rock, alternative rock
• Rating is percentage based
• Currently, the release year must be manually entered; this is due to there not being an easy way to distinguish between the original release date and things like reissues/remasters.
• Album art is currently best-effort; an attempt will be made to grab it from CoverArtArchive and Discogs, but you have no control over what art is picked unless you edit the release after the fact

Usage

Download the docker-compose.yml file: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chunned/databass/main/docker-compose.yml

Choose a port to use on line 7.

In the environment section:

• Add your Discogs API key and secret. Obtain them here.
• Set DB_FILENAME to whichever filename you wish to use and TIMEZONE to your desired timezone.

In the volumes section:

• Optionally, choose a location to store the database outside the docker container. Change DB_FILENAME to the value you set in the environment section. If you get the error not a directory: unknown: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type when running the Docker compose file, you need to do touch music.db to create the database file first (otherwise, Docker tries to mount it as a directory, rather than a file).

Then, run docker compose up -d and visit the application at localhost:<port>