fastmusic is an SQLite/.NET Core REST API designed for home music streaming. fastmusic exists because writing it was faster than setting up Ampache/HTTPd/MySQL/PHP/FastCGI.

Clone the repository and make sure you have the .NET Core CLI installed. Make a copy of config_default.txt called config.txt and set the configuration values appropriately. Then, run the following from the root of the repository:

1. dotnet restore (installs dependencies)

2. dotnet build (builds fastmusic)

3. dotnet ef database update (creates an empty database)

4. dotnet run

5. You can now start querying the API (try /api/Music/AlbumsByArtist to see all your discographies). The database will populate in the background as fastmusic searches over your collection.

My library (just under 10,000 audio files) takes ~7 seconds to load into a clean install of fastmusic, with a nice warm drive cache (this is benchmarking the program, not my hard drive). From a cold start of fastmusic (db already initialised), returning the full set of discographies (/api/Music/AlbumsByArtist) takes about 150ms.