Containerized Tizonia cloud music player that uses the host's sound system.

Tizonia connects as a client directly to the hosts PulseAudio server and uses its configuration/devices to output the sound. This is achieved by mapping the UNIX socket used by PulseAudio in the host into the container and configuring its use.

Credits: Method borrowed from docker-pulseaudio-example.

Use the convenience script docker-tizonia.

The script bind mounts the host's '$HOME/.config/tizonia' to make 'tizonia.conf' available inside the container.

NOTE: The Tizonia process running inside the container needs 'rwx' permissions on this directory.

The script also bind mounts the host's '$HOME/.cache' to allow debug logs to be written to disk. For example, gmusicapi logs for Google Play Music can be found at '$HOME/.cache/gmusicapi/log/gmusicapi.log'

Once the script is in your path, and the permissions of '$HOME/.config/tizonia' have been changed, just use the usual Tizonia commands:

# Change Tizonia's config dir permissions
$ chmod a+wrx $HOME/.config/tizonia

# Install the wrapper script in a location in your PATH
$ sudo install docker-tizonia /usr/local/bin

# Pass the usual Tizonia commands to the wrapper
$ docker-tizonia --youtube-audio-mix-search "Queen Official"

It is required that PulseAudio to be installed via homebrew (brew install pulseaudio), and the following lines in /usr/local/Cellar/pulseaudio/13.0/etc/pulse/default.pa to be uncommented:

load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp

To choose the device being used for output, bring up a list of possible output devices and select one as the default sink:

pactl list short sinks

pacmd set-default-sink n  # where n is the chosen output number

Start the Pulseaudio daemon:

pulseaudio --load=module-native-protocol-tcp --exit-idle-time=-1 --daemon

You should now be able to utilize the docker-tizonia script to route audio from the docker container to the host machine!

The Unlicense.

See tizonia-openmax-il.