# Step 3: Adding music

We need to place our music in the directory we specified in the `docker-compose.yml` file, in our case `../music`, which is most likely `~/music`.
If you have the music you want to upload on the device you are accessing your server with, you can log out of SSH, and then run something like this: `scp -r <local folder> <username>@<server IP>:~/music`  
`scp` (secure copy protocol) transfers files through ssh, `-r` means _recursive_ and is required to transfer directories. `<local folder>` is the folder on the local device you want to transfer to your server. `<username>` is the remote username, `<server IP>` is the remote ip, the same one you use to connect to your server with ssh. `:~/music` means transfer the local files to the `~/music` folder.

Depending on the size of your library, this might take a while...

After the transfer is finished, you can click on the [![](https://guides.seres.eu.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/gYwL4o2hWZCGrlHB-image-1760802208129.png)](https://wiki.seres.eu.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/gYwL4o2hWZCGrlHB-image-1760802208129.png) icon in the top right,  
and then on either of these icons [![](https://guides.seres.eu.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/4FiS4JSH7rAkcNBb-image-1760802236106.png)](https://wiki.seres.eu.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/4FiS4JSH7rAkcNBb-image-1760802236106.png) (left one is quick scan, right one is full scan).
Music should now have appeared and you can click on play on any of these and it should just work!™