The Audius Monorepo
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Audius is a decentralized, community-owned music-sharing protocol

For details on operating an Audius service, getting started with the Token and the API, see docs.audius.org.

Packages

Name	Description
commands	CLI to perform actions against the protocol
common	Shared code between web and mobile
compose	Defines dependencies for audius-compose
contracts	The POA network smart contracts for the Audius protocol, encompassing user account, content listing, and content interaction functionality
creator-node	Maintains the availability of users' content via the Audius Storage Protocol, including user images and audio content. Also known as Content Node or mediorum.
discovery-provider	Indexes and stores the contents of the audius contracts on the Ethereum & Solana blockchains for clients to query via an API. Also known as Discovery Node.
embed	Embed player that renders on third party sites
eslint-config-audius	Shared lint configuration
eth-contracts	The Ethereum smart contracts that run the Audius protocol, encompassing the Audius ERC20 token and functionality for staking, off-chain service registration / lookup, and governance
harmony	The Audius design system
identity-service	Stores encrypted auth ciphertexts and handles oauth artifacts
libs	@audius/sdk and legacy shared utilities libs
mobile	The Audius reference mobile application
solana-programs	The Solana programs for the Audius protocol, encompassing user account, content listing, and content interaction functionality
spl	Handles Solana instructions for the Audius programs
sql-ts	A typescript database client
trpc-server	tRPC server used for serving data
web	The Audius reference web and desktop application

Required Dependencies

We recommend using homebrew to install the dependencies required to run Audius:

brew install nvm pyenv rbenv homebrew/cask/docker docker-compose

You will need to add some shell configuration for nvm, pyenv, and rbenv. Please refer to the respective documentation and the installation output

Getting Started

npm install

This will do the following:

• Install the correct versions of node, ruby, and python
• Install dependencies (npm packages, gems, pods, etc.)
• Set up command line tools for interacting with the protocol (dev-tools/README.md)
• Initialize git hooks

Running the Protocol

npm run protocol

For more details and troubleshooting please refer to dev-tools/README.md

Running the Client

Environments:

• \*:dev runs against local services
• \*:stage runs against the staging testnet
• \*:prod runs against production infrastructure

For example:

npm run web:prod

For all available commands please see the package.json scripts and the relevant package READMEs.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to Audius from anyone who opens a PR. Feel free to reach out to our team on Discord or via other channels for feedback and/or support!

Security

Please report security issues to security@audius.co with a description of the vulnerability and any steps to reproduce. Details on our bug bounty program are available at audius.org/security

License

Apache 2.0: LICENSE file