Polaris
Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device. (by agersant)
Emby
Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device. (by MediaBrowser)
| Polaris | Emby | |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 108 | |
| 1,365 | 3,911 | |
| - | 1.5% | |
| 5.9 | 0.0 | |
| about 2 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Rust | C# | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Polaris
Posts with mentions or reviews of Polaris.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-05.
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I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
- No official iOS client (there is a third party client however)
[1]: https://github.com/agersant/polaris
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Does anyone use Jellyfin for music?
If you have a big library I would highly recommend Polaris https://github.com/agersant/polaris
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Best way to stream music from server to remote clients
if you have a big library https://github.com/agersant/polaris is the way to go with easy to create large playlists and you can easy make a cloudflare tunnel or reverse proxy for it using caddy. They also have iOS and Android App
- Shuffle all music?
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What's yout preferred selfhosted music streaming suite?
Polaris
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Is there a self-hosted software for hifi music streaming?
It doesn't have a lot of features like complex searching and transcoding, but I like https://github.com/agersant/polaris.
- My Selfhosted Music Streaming Setup
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Let's create an overview of selfhostable music servers!
I can't send a PR right now, but https://github.com/agersant/polaris is worth adding.
- Has anyone tried using Polaris?
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Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
had a hard time too but I think it's this https://github.com/agersant/polaris
Emby
Posts with mentions or reviews of Emby.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-01.
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Program for sorting DOWNLOADED movies/games?
I used to use Plex until I found Emby. I find Emby easier to use and it does the same thing. Just putting this here as a fourth option for OP. :)
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Emby VS Chocolate - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 1 Oct 2023
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My Home Lab setup
Media Server: EMBY
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Ask HN: What is your streaming setup like?
I use https://emby.media along with private trackers and Usenet.
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Just checking: Plex is still the best option right?
You can find it here! I have both installed, but I generally keep EMBY turned off until I want to play around with it. You can have both running at once and both accessing the same folders. You can check it out for free.
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Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a pirates life for me!! Recent streaming services, prices and shows getting butchered, finally decided its time. Here's how a basic self-hosted 'Netflix' would look like. Fully automated once its setup. Using only a makeshift homelab server from second hand parts.
Emby: Offers premium features with some behind a membership.
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media server, bring old days and share with friends
I went with Emby, personally. Plex, Jellyfin, etc are all good choices too! :)
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Jellyfin (open source Plex) moves from Reddit to its own traditional-style MyBB forum
For clarity: Emby is still mostly open source (the source code is right here: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby). Emby started incorporating closed source plugins that you only get with the paid version of Emby in order to try and get revenue.
- Multiple people on the same account at once?
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Setting up a home media PC to stream to TV
I used Plex until I found Emby, which is far easier to set up and works very well with all my media.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Polaris and Emby you can also consider the following projects:
Navidrome Music Server - 🎧☁️ Modern Music Server and Streamer compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic
Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System
Airsonic - :satellite: :cloud: :notes:Airsonic, a Free and Open Source community driven media server (fork of Subsonic and Libresonic)
PhotoPrism - AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨
Snapcast - Synchronous multiroom audio player
jellyfin-tizen - Jellyfin Samsung TV Client
Ampache - A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device.
Streama - Self hosted streaming media server. https://docs.streama-project.com/
Volumio - Volumio 2 - Audiophile Music Player
VideoLAN Client (VLC) - VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/
musikcube - a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++