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 # WRMS - Wireless Remote Media System
 
+WRMS is a service offering a interactive playlist consisting of songs from one
+or multiple backends.
+A backend in the context of WRMS is anything that can be searched for music and
+is able to play individual songs.
+Each song in the interactive playlist has a rate, which determines its
+position in the playlist.
+Songs can be up- or downvoted to change their rate similar to how reddit handles
+posts.
+
+## Compilation
+
+WRMS is build in go therefore you need a go installation to build WRMS.
+
+To build WRMS run: `go build` in the repository root.
+
+## Usage
+
+To start WRMS and serve clients run `./wrms`
+
+```Usage of ./wrms:
+  -backends string
+    	music backend to use (default "dummy youtube spotify")
+  -loglevel string
+    	log level (default "Warning")
+  -port int
+    	port to listen to (default 8080)
+  -serve-music-dir string
+    	local music directory to serve
+```
+
+When WRMS is running Clients can connect to the computer running WRMS on the
+specified port (default 8080).
+For example connect to [localhost:8080](htpp://localhost:8080) when you are
+running WRMS on your own computer.
+
+## Requirements
+
+* mpv
+
+## Available backends
+
+The backends WRMS should use can be controlled with the `backends` command line
+argument.
+The default value is `dummy youtube spotify`.
+
+### local
+
+The `local` backend allows WRMS to play songs from a local path.
+To serve local songs pass the `-serve-music-dir <path>` flag to WRMS.
+
+### spotify
+
+The `spotify` backend requires a spotify premium account to serve songs from
+spotify.
+The spotify username and password are provided using the environment variables
+`WRMS_SPOTIFY_USER` and `WRMS_SPOTIFY_PASSWORD`.
+
+### youtube
+
+The `youtube` backend uses youtube-dl to search youtube and in combination with
+mpv to play the selected youtube videos.
+
+### dummy
+
+The `dummy` backend is only used for debugging and development it can not
+actually search for or play songs.
+
 ## LICENSE
 
 WRMS is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License 3.0.