Album Art on your LAN

How to configure your server to serve your album art

MPDroid supports loading album cover artwork from your music directory across your local network. In order to do this, you need to install a webserver on the box running MPD, and configure it to serve files from your music directory.

We also add a rule to only serve to IP addresses on your local network to keep this secure.

Using nginx

$ sudo aptitude install nginx

Existing nginx install

If you already have nginx configured on your server, you should only merge the location block from below into your existing server config and restart nginx.

New nginx install

If you have a new nginx install, copy the below into a new file in /etc/nginx/sites-available/mpd-cover-art.conf:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name 192.168.1.102;

    location /cover-art/ {
        root /home/mafrosis/MP3/;
        rewrite /cover-art/(.*) / break;
        try_files $uri $uri;
        allow   192.168.1.0/24;
        deny    all;
    }
}

Now run the following commands to get nginx to pick up the new config:

$ sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mpd-cover-art.conf
$ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mpd-cover-art.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
$ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart