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11 self-hosted Navidrome alternatives

Navidrome is a lightweight, open-source, self-hosted music streaming server compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic clients. It lets users host, stream and manage personal music libraries via web and mobile apps, with playlists and remote access.

Alternatives to Navidrome

Koel is a web-based personal music streaming server with a modern player UI, multi-user support, playlists, library management, and optional mobile apps.

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17.2k stars2.1k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Open-source Ruby on Rails music streaming server that indexes a local music directory, provides web and mobile players, playlists, multi-user accounts, and Docker deployment.

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4.4k stars223 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Polaris is a self-hosted music streaming server for browsing and streaming your personal music collection from web browsers and mobile devices, with multi-user support.

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2.7k stars128 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Gonic is a lightweight, self-hosted Subsonic API server for streaming your music library with transcoding, playlists, podcasts support, and multi-user access.

2.5k stars155 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted Node.js music streaming server with web and mobile clients; supports FLAC/MP3, playlists, gapless playback and visualizer.

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2.4k stars208 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source self-hosted music server for collectors with flexible metadata parsing, multiple releases/versions support, music-video handling and Docker deployment.

1.4k stars39 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted audiobook manager that searches, downloads, tracks, and organizes audiobooks from torrents and Usenet with rich metadata and a responsive web UI.

865 stars61 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Audioserve is a minimalist Rust server for streaming audiobooks and other audio files from folders, with a web PWA client, playlists, search, and optional transcoding.

854 stars40 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Supysonic is a Python implementation of the Subsonic API for serving, browsing and streaming personal music libraries with transcoding, playlists and scrobbling.

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288 stars64 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing Navidrome actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 11 of 11 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, GPL-3.0, AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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