Diary of Beets on ARM - Docker Container, Alpine Linux, Odroid-HC4

[RollingStar]

Continuing from Discourse:
https://discourse.beets.io/t/diary-of-beets-on-arm-odroid-hc4-armbian/1993

# misc: git py3-pip 
# calliope and its dependency on splitstream : gcc musl-dev python3-dev libc-dev 
# jellyfish: rust cargo
# chromaprint: pyacoustid chromaprint ffmpeg
# extra archive support: rarfile py7zr linux-headers
apk add git gcc musl-dev python3-dev libc-dev py3-pip rust cargo chromaprint ffmpeg linux-headers
python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/JOJ0/beets-dirfields calliope-music m3u8 beets-filetote pyacoustid rarfile py7zr
# install the test UI branch
# I removed --no-deps because my install didn't have deps, and was failing
# python3 -m pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/davidswarbrick/beets.git@ui # --no-deps
python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/davidswarbrick/beets.git@ui

# make the beets config point to a file I control with Samba
rm /config/config.yaml
ln --symbolic /blk/black/mysys/beet/beets_config.yaml /config/config.yaml

edit: in my limited use of beets (never used it for a full library, just ~30 test albums I bought), my conclusion is that it can be used on ARM, but not necessarily that it should. If you're fine tinkering or are used to ARM / compiling code, snooping through make/compile scripts to find ARM errors, etc., you will be fine. but if you want set and forget, you want x86 or x64.