LMS is a lightweight, self-hosted music streaming server that lets you access and play your music collection through a web interface.
The software offers extensive metadata support and multiple ways to browse and discover music. It also implements the Subsonic and OpenSubsonic APIs, allowing compatible desktop and mobile clients to connect to the server.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Stream a personal music collection through a web browser.
- Subsonic and OpenSubsonic API support.
- Multi-library support.
- Multi-valued metadata tags, including genres, moods and artists.
- Artist relationships for composers, conductors, performers, producers and other roles.
- MusicBrainz identifiers, release types and release groups.
- Recommendation engine using audio similarity or metadata tags.
- Tag-based filters, radio mode and extensive search options.
- ListenBrainz integration for scrobbling, listen synchronization and loved tracks.
- Last.fm scrobbling.
- ReplayGain support and audio transcoding.
- Playlists, podcasts and synchronized or unsynchronized lyrics.
- Jukebox mode for playing audio through the server.
- Internal, PAM and HTTP-header authentication backends.
- Docker images and Debian packages are available.
Website: github.com/epoupon/lms
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Developer: Emeric Poupon
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
LMS is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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