Music

Navidrome – web-based music collection server and streamer

Navidrome is a web-based music collection server and streamer.

It gives you freedom to listen to your music collection from any browser or mobile device. It’s like your personal Spotify!

It’s built with new technologies (GoLang, ReactJS, Material-UI), to ensure modern features and compatibility.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Handles very large music collections (tested with ~900K songs – 2/3 FLAC, 1/3 MP3).
  • Streams virtually any audio format available.
  • Reads and uses all your beautifully curated metadata.
  • Great support for compilations (Various Artists albums) and box sets (multi-disc albums).
  • Multi-user, each user has their own play counts, playlists, favourites, etc…
  • Very low resource usage.
  • Ready to use binaries for all major platforms, including Raspberry Pi.
  • Automatically monitors your library for changes, importing new files and reloading new metadata.
  • Themeable, modern and responsive Web interface based on Material UI.
  • Compatible with all Subsonic/Madsonic/Airsonic clients.
  • Subsonic API:
    • Tag-based browsing/searching.
    • Simulated browsing by folders.
    • Playlists.
    • Bookmarks (for Audiobooks).
    • Starred (favourites) Artists/Albums/Tracks.
    • 5-Star Rating for Artists/Albums/Tracks.
    • Transcoding and Downsampling.
    • Get/Save Play Queue (to continue listening in a different device).
    • Last.fm and ListenBrainz scrobbling.
    • Artist Bio from Last.fm.
    • Artist Images from Spotify (requires configuration).
    • Album images and description from Last.fm.
    • Lyrics (currently only from embedded tags).
    • Internet Radios.
    • Jukebox mode.
    • Shares (experimental support).
  • Transcoding on the fly. Can be set per user/player. Opus encoding is supported.
  • Smart/dynamic playlists (similar to iTunes).
  • Scrobbling to Last.fm, ListenBrainz and Maloja (via custom ListenBrainz URL).
  • Sharing public links to albums/songs/playlists.
  • Reverse Proxy authentication.
  • Jukebox mode allows playing music on an audio device attached to the server, and control from a client.
  • Translated to 17 languages.
  • Cross-platform support – runs under under Linux, macOS, and Windows. Docker images are also provided.

Website: www.navidrome.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: The Navidrome Authors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Navidrome is written in Go and JavaScript. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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