Document the required configuration

[jvoisin]

Someone asked me what is the minimum configuration required to run airsonic.

I know that a raspi3 is waaaaaaaay more than enough, but what about other popular devices, like a raspi zero?

[jooola]

Let's say :

RAM (minimum)	RAM (recommended)	Hard Drive
512 megabytes	1024 megabytes	1 gigabytes (+ media storage)

Bare minimum : 512 RAM

[jvoisin]

My /var/airsonic is taking a bit less than 128MB of disc space, with a large library, recommending 1GB is a bit overkill.

[jooola]

256 megabytes for storage it is then.

[eharris]

Mine is currently at 386Mb, but that includes lots of duplicates since I have flac/mp3/ogg/aac versions of the same stuff.

[jvoisin]

512Mb then :)

[jooola]

@muff1nman Do you have your own appreciation about this 🤣 ?

[muff1nman]

@jooola I don't really have any small devices that I run airsonic on, so nope ;)

[jvoisin]

Worse can, we can have a list of devices along with the amount of RAM/CPU/storage, something like:

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RAM (minimum)	RAM (recommended)	Hard Drive
512 megabytes	1024 megabytes	256 megabytes (+ media storage)

Airsonic is known to run flawlessly on:

• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2
• ODROID C2

[Hyask]

Airsonic has been observed to run quite well for a single user with -Xmx200m on an Intel Atom C2350. Music was playing from both a Clementine client with the API and the regular web UI on different songs. The web UI was clunky as usual but worked okay.

As an extra information, my /var/airsonic is about 65MiB for:

• 325 artists
• 1,413 albums
• 18,714 songs
• 175.43 GB