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Navidrome is a self-hosted music streaming server built in Go. It indexes your local music collection and exposes it via the Subsonic/OpenSubsonic API, which means a large ecosystem of mobile and desktop clients (DSub, Symfonium, Airsonic Refix, and others) work with it out of the box. The web interface is clean and runs well on low-power hardware.
Reviewed by Marco Wollank
Navidrome
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Threat level
Hardened
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Our take
Navidrome excels at one thing: serving your own music files to any Subsonic-compatible client, on any device, with no subscription and no cloud dependency. Its narrow scope is both its strength and its limit: it handles audio only, has no video or podcast support, and relies on the Subsonic ecosystem for native mobile apps rather than shipping its own. For music-focused self-hosters who already have a local library and want Spotify-style access without the monthly fee or the data harvesting, it is the most practical option available.
GitHub at a glance
navidrome/navidrome GPL-3.0 airsonicmadsonicmedia-servermusicmusic-servernavidromeopensubsonicraspberry-piself-hostedstreamerstreaming-apistreaming-audiosubsonicsubsonic-server
Stars
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Forks
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Last commit
today
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Latest release
v0.64.2
1mo ago, 100+ total
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Issues
93% closed
140
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1,757
closed
+44 / -21
opened / closed, last 4 weeks
Opened vs closed, last 12 weeks
Commits, last 26 weeks
387 commits, active 25 of 26 weeks
253 contributors since Feb 2016
Languages
- Go 81.4%
- JavaScript 15.2%
- Rust 2.1%
- Other 1.3%
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Website at a glance
navidrome.org
D score 30
Weak website security headers
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Navidrome license, in plain English
GPL-3.0 Strong copyleft
Free to use and modify, but anything you distribute that is built on it must also be open under the same license.
Permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Patent use
- Private use
Requires
- Disclose source
- Same license
- State changes
- License and copyright notice
Does not provide
- Liability cover
- Warranty
Why it matters: Strong copyleft keeps every distributed version open. A vendor cannot fold this into a closed product and ship it without releasing their changes.
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