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gonic

Lightweight Subsonic-compatible music streaming server written in Go

Replaces
Spotify
2.5k Go GPL-3.0 11 days ago

Overview

Gonic is a minimal, high-performance Subsonic API server that lets you stream your music library using any Subsonic-compatible client (DSub, Symfonium, Ultrasonic, etc.). It supports scrobbling, Internet Radio, podcast management, and jukebox mode. Being written in Go it compiles to a single binary with very low resource usage.

Where it falls short of Spotify

  • No web player; requires a Subsonic client app
  • Video streaming not supported
  • Transcoding setup requires external ffmpeg binary

We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.

Tags

music
subsonic
go
lightweight
streaming
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