Levyraati

A private music review club. Members submit songs — by file upload or YouTube link — and review each other's picks on a 1–100 scale. Other people's reviews of a song stay hidden until you've written your own.

Invite-only, no public registration. Built for about ten friends.

Status: not built yet. This README describes the app defined in docs/spec.md; commands here are the intended interface, not a record of anything that runs today.

Docs

File	What's in it
CONTEXT.md	The glossary — every domain term, in English and Finnish
docs/spec.md	What the app does: rules, pipeline, routes, API contract, schema
docs/decisions.md	Why it is that way. Append-only
docs/theme.md	The visual language: tokens, type, and what differs from the theme handoff
docs/later.md	Deliberately not in v1, with the reasoning kept

Branches

• main — released code only. Every commit on it is something that ran in production, or is meant to. Tagged at each release.
• dev — current development, and whatever nightly builds get made. Work happens here and reaches main by merge at release time.

The app never sends email — there is no verification, no password reset link, and no notifications. Members have an address because it is their login and because mail is a planned feature.

Stack

Go, Postgres, html/template, HTMX + Alpine. Audio is converted with ffmpeg and downloaded with yt-dlp. One binary, one origin — there is no separate frontend to deploy.

Go dependencies: pgx/v5 and golang.org/x/crypto. No Node, no npm, no bundler.

Running it

cp .env.example .env      # then edit — ADMIN_PASSWORD has no default and the app won't start without it
docker compose up -d

Migrations apply themselves at startup, before the server accepts connections. The first launch creates no users: log into the admin panel and mint an invite.

Configuration

Variable	Default	Notes
POSTGRES_PASSWORD	—	Required by Compose. Used to build DATABASE_URL for the app
DATABASE_URL	—	postgres://user:pass@postgres:5432/levyraati
ADMIN_USER	admin	Admin panel username
ADMIN_PASSWORD	—	Required. No default; the app refuses to start without it
ADDR	:8080	Member-facing listener
ADMIN_ADDR	127.0.0.1:8081	Admin listener. Keep it on loopback. Under Compose it binds :8081 inside the container and is published only to the host's loopback
STORAGE_DIR	./storage	Audio, avatars, in-flight conversions
SECURE_COOKIES	true	Set false for local development over plain HTTP
PUBLIC_URL	—	Public address of the member site, e.g. https://levyraati.example.com. Used to build invite links in the admin panel; unset gives relative links

Local development

docker compose up -d postgres
export DATABASE_URL="postgres://levyraati:$POSTGRES_PASSWORD@localhost:5432/levyraati"
export ADMIN_PASSWORD=dev SECURE_COOKIES=false
go run .

Requires Go 1.24+, plus ffmpeg, ffprobe, and yt-dlp on PATH.

Tests that need a database are skipped unless TEST_DATABASE_URL points at a throwaway one — the migration test drops and recreates the public schema, so never point it at anything you care about.

go test ./...

Templates, stylesheet, and migrations are embedded with embed.FS, so a rebuild is needed to see template changes. go build && ./levyraati is the loop.

Admin panel

The admin is not a user account. It exists only as ADMIN_USER / ADMIN_PASSWORD, authenticates with HTTP Basic Auth, and is bound to loopback so it is not reachable from the internet. Reach it through an SSH tunnel:

ssh -L 8081:127.0.0.1:8081 you@server
# then open http://localhost:8081

From there: mint invites, reset member passwords, ban members, delete songs, read issue reports.

Lost the admin password? Edit .env and docker compose restart app. There is no recovery endpoint and no recovery key — the credentials are the environment.

Operations

yt-dlp goes stale

yt-dlp needs regular updates to keep working against YouTube. It comes from Alpine's community repository, whose active branch tracks upstream closely, so rebuilding is how you update it:

docker compose build --no-cache app && docker compose up -d app

Rebuild monthly. When submissions start failing with download errors, this is the first thing to try. Failures are shown to the submitter with the yt-dlp error attached, so they're visible without reading logs.

Logs

docker compose logs -f app

JSON to stdout, nothing else. There is no log table and no log viewer in the app.

Backups

Two paths hold everything:

• ./pgdata — the database. Postgres 18 stores it under a version subdirectory (18/docker), so the mount is /var/lib/postgresql, not /var/lib/postgresql/data
• ./storage — audio files and avatars

Both are bind mounts. storage/tmp/ is in-flight conversions and is safe to skip; it's cleared on startup anyway.

docker compose exec postgres pg_dump -U levyraati levyraati | gzip > backup-$(date +%F).sql.gz

Database shell

docker compose exec postgres psql -U levyraati levyraati

Layout

Go source is flat at the repository root, one package. Beyond that: templates/ and static/ are embedded assets, migrations/ holds numbered .sql files applied in order at startup, and testdata/ holds the golden JSON files that guard the API contract, plus ytdlp-noose.json — a real yt-dlp -J dump of an ordinary upload, used to test metadata prefill against a video that has no track, artist or album at all.

Notes

Downloading audio from YouTube is against YouTube's terms of service. This is a private app among a handful of friends; the decision is deliberate rather than accidental.

Licence

MIT — see LICENSE.