Polaris
Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device. (by agersant)
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. (by ampache)
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| Polaris | Ampache | |
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| 14 | 97 | |
| 1,358 | 3,432 | |
| - | 0.9% | |
| 5.9 | 9.9 | |
| about 1 month ago | 7 days ago | |
| Rust | PHP | |
| MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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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)
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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.
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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
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Self-hosted old Google Music? No streaming, but a client player that downloads/plays.
https://github.com/agersant/polaris/ is nice, but only support local caching in the Android client.
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Is there a self hosted media player?
I really like https://github.com/agersant/polaris, though it doesn't support file system change detection yet.
Ampache
Posts with mentions or reviews of Ampache.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-05.
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Ask HN: Flac/MP3 listeners: How do you store/play your music?
I'm not sure if this would fit all your needs aside from running on Linux but Ampache [1][2] has been around for a very long time and has the ability to mesh with other instances. It started as a small project run by some students at OSU and evolved over time.
[1] - https://ampache.org/
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Releases · ampache/ampache
Great news! One thing, the 6.0.0-preview1 section of the releases page says the changes are listed at https://github.com/ampache/ampache/wiki/Ampache-Next-Changes but that points to changes in 5.0. The link should be https://github.com/ampache/ampache/wiki/ampache6-details
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self-hosted alternative to spotify?
https://ampache.org/ could be an alternative
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Where I can do my backup?
Now it's time to make backups of my nextcloud, bitwarden, ampache files.
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What's yout preferred selfhosted music streaming suite?
Ampache. I've been using it for a while and it's great. I'd suggest using it with Ample, as Ample's UI is better. It supports the Subsonic API, so subsonic clients will work with it. It also supports DAAP and uPnP, for other clients. It has it's own API as well, but not many apps use that.
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Selfhosted Spotify / YouTube Music alternative.
If you're using a local music library, Ampache is really good. It supports docker too. The UI's customizable if you don't like it, they have documentation for theming. I'm not really sure what you mean exactly by spotify integration, but there are settings for spotify API keys in Ampache's config file so it might be what you want. Examples of Ampache: image1 image2 image3
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How do you listen to your music?
ampache hosted on a local server.
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Ask HN: FOSS Projects Worth Donating To?
Ampache has been around for a long time. When it first started at a college I donated beer but they also accept money. [1] I think they would prefer contributions in the form of software development. [2]
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Polaris and Ampache you can also consider the following projects:
Navidrome Music Server - 🎧☁️ Modern Music Server and Streamer compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic
Airsonic - :satellite: :cloud: :notes:Airsonic, a Free and Open Source community driven media server (fork of Subsonic and Libresonic)
Mopidy - Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python
koel - 🐦 A personal music streaming server that works.
Icecast - Icecast streaming media server (Mirror) - Please report bugs at https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-server/issues
Libresonic
mStream - The easiest music streaming server available
Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System
beets - music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
Volumio - Volumio 2 - Audiophile Music Player
mpd - Python library which provides a client interface for the Music Player Daemon.