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.
Navidrome
navidrome.org
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
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License
GPL-3.0
Latest release
v0.62.0
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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.
Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.