INSTALL
Choose or try the installation method you prefer.
See the Windows instructions.
On Linux and macOS, you can use the homebrew tap.
brew tap anacrolix/cove
brew install cove
cove is in the Arch User Repository (AUR) and installable
$ yay -S cove
Download the release asset that matches your OS and CPU architecture from https://github.com/anacrolix/cove/releases.
See https://hub.docker.com/r/anacrolix/cove.
Run the executable cove from the release asset. On macOS you may get an error that "cove" is an app downloaded from the internet. Are you sure you want to open it?. Click Open.
It is recommend to install ffmpeg for transcoding and metadata extraction. ffmpeg is not currently available for Android.
Download the cove-$VERSION-windows-ffmpeg-$VERSION.zip asset and extract it to the same directory as you did for the main cove release files. If you have done this already for a previous release, it's not necessary to do it again unless the cove-windows-ffmpeg.zip version has changed.
Install via Homebrew, brew install ffmpeg.
Install via your system package manager, for example on Debian-based OS such as Ubuntu, sudo apt install ffmpeg.
Run cove on your desktop machine. It will open a browser to a URL containing a local network IP address. Use that same URL on your devices elsewhere on the same network to use cove remotely from those devices.