balena-sound vs Polaris

balena-sound

Build a single or multi-room streamer for an existing audio device using a Raspberry Pi! Supports Bluetooth, Airplay and Spotify Connect (by sniff122)

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Polaris

Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device. (by agersant)

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balena-sound		Polaris
	Project
3	Mentions	14
1	Stars	1,369
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	5.5
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
TypeScript	Language	Rust
MIT License	License	MIT License

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balena-sound

Posts with mentions or reviews of balena-sound. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-28.

Is there a self-hosted software for hifi music streaming?
7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Dec 2022

I personally use balena sound https://sound.balenalabs.io/
Whole home audio amp/receiver recommendations
1 project | /r/smarthome | 8 Dec 2022

I've had balena bookmarked for a minute to try to roll my own Sonos alternative, but I haven't tried it yet.
Headless Plexamp has been a godsend! I’m now able to easily control music on my desk with an Echo Show
1 project | /r/plexamp | 17 Sep 2022

Basically forked it and built a container for the headless plexamp, you can see my fork here https://github.com/sniff122/balena-sound

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.

I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2023

- No official iOS client (there is a third party client however)
[1]: https://github.com/agersant/polaris
Does anyone use Jellyfin for music?
1 project | /r/jellyfin | 21 Feb 2023

If you have a big library I would highly recommend Polaris https://github.com/agersant/polaris
Best way to stream music from server to remote clients
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 12 Feb 2023

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?
3 projects | /r/jellyfin | 29 Jan 2023
What's yout preferred selfhosted music streaming suite?
18 projects | /r/selfhosted | 19 Jan 2023

Polaris
Is there a self-hosted software for hifi music streaming?
7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Dec 2022

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
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 10 Dec 2021
Let's create an overview of selfhostable music servers!
6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 27 Nov 2021

I can't send a PR right now, but https://github.com/agersant/polaris is worth adding.
Has anyone tried using Polaris?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 23 Oct 2021
Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2021

had a hard time too but I think it's this https://github.com/agersant/polaris

What are some alternatives?

When comparing balena-sound and Polaris you can also consider the following projects:

RompR - Web client for Mopidy and MPD

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)

Snapcast - Synchronous multiroom audio player

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.

Volumio - Volumio 2 - Audiophile Music Player

musikcube - a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++

moOde Audio - moOde sources and configs

LMS - Lightweight Music Server. Access your self-hosted music using a web interface.

koel - 🐦 A personal music streaming server that works.

mStream - The easiest music streaming server available

Stretto - Beautiful web-based music player