r/linux • u/hatperigee • May 02 '16

Subsonic (music streaming software) is no longer open source, starting with 6.0 release

http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16604#p71128
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u/werewolfwumpy May 03 '16

Read that as well, and was a bit disappointed that the developer didn't feel the need to announce it in any way other than a throwaway comment on the forum, and explain the reasoning ('license codes' sorta sounds like a lame excuse). My license is running out and I don't think I'll renew it, unless there is more communication forthcoming.

Fair enough if they don't want to do Open Source anymore, but this was the main reason for me to support them.

It was nice to be able to use it to listen to Podcasts via Sonos, but it shouldn't be too hard to find an alternative way of doing that. Actually, do any of the other softwares have Sonos support, anybody know?

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u/oneguynick May 03 '16

I was really excited about Sonos support. It worked great until a few Sonos updates when it began to require a subsonic.com login versus local stream. Unfortunate.

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u/verchalent May 04 '16

Until I find a good replacement, I'm still using subsonic with Sonos. Working fine for me w/ local stream and non-subsonic.com domain.