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 4.  In your web browser, navigate to `192.0.2.10:8080/libresonic/`, replacing `192.0.2.0` with your server's IP address, or `127.0.0.1` if installing locally.
 
+## Alternative to Tomcat
+
+If you'd prefer not to use a Tomcat container, you can also run Libresonic as a standalone application.
+Note that, in that case, libresonic will available at `192.0.2.10:8080` (and not `192.0.2.10:8080/libresonic/`).
+
+Download the Libresonic Pre-Compiled Package as explained above and put it anywhere. Then create the libresonic directory.
+
+Now you can simply run java against the libresonic.war package.
+
+Here is a simple shell script that does the job. 
+
+```shell
+#!/bin/sh
+
+JAVA_HOME=/software/java/jdk1.8.0_92 # please change to your java distribution directory
+
+LIBRESONIC_HOME=/var/libresonic
+LIBRESONIC_PIDFILE=${LIBRESONIC_HOME}/libresonic.pid
+LOG=${LIBRESONIC_HOME}/libresonic_sh.log
+LIBRESONIC_MAX_MEMORY=256
+
+echo "LIBRESONIC_HOME = ${LIBRESONIC_HOME}"
+
+echo "Launch libresonic"
+${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java -Xmx${LIBRESONIC_MAX_MEMORY}m \
+  -Dlibresonic.home=${LIBRESONIC_HOME} \
+  -Djava.awt.headless=true \
+  -jar libresonic.war > ${LOG} 2>&1 &
+
+# Write pid to pidfile if it is defined.
+echo "Write pid in ${LIBRESONIC_PIDFILE}"
+if [ $LIBRESONIC_PIDFILE ]; then
+    echo $! > ${LIBRESONIC_PIDFILE}
+fi
+
+echo Started libresonic [PID $!, ${LOG}]
+```
+
 ## Installing From Source
 
 ### Prerequisites