Jpsonic is a web-based media streamer derived from Airsonic.
It is particularly designed to improve the management, indexing, sorting, and searching of Japanese music collections.
The server supports Subsonic-compatible clients as well as DLNA, UPnP, and OpenHome devices. It can also operate as a general-purpose Subsonic server without its Japanese-language processing.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Streams personal music collections through a web interface and compatible client applications.
- Offers enhanced indexing, sorting, and searching for Japanese music metadata.
- Supports romanized Japanese for users who cannot read Japanese characters.
- Automatically complements missing Japanese sort metadata.
- Searches artist sort tags as well as standard metadata fields.
- Supports the Subsonic API.
- Provides DLNA, UPnP, and OpenHome functionality.
- Handles high-resolution FLAC and DSD audio.
- Supports audio transcoding and resampling.
- Works with numerous desktop and mobile media clients.
- Provides multilingual font handling and optional embedded Japanese fonts.
- Available as a Docker image.
Website: github.com/jpsonic/jpsonic
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Developer: Jpsonic
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Jpsonic is written in Java. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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