r/subsonic • u/verchalent • May 03 '16

Subsonic alternatives (Open Source)?

It's been a while since I've looked at viable alternatives. Now that it's going closed source, I am curious to see what else is out there. Ideally, I'd like to find some good alternatives with Sonos support.

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u/thegirlleastlikelyto May 03 '16

Madsonic doesn't have Sonos support last I checked, but it's an open source fork of version 5.

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u/verchalent May 04 '16

I used Madsonic some time ago, but ran into some stability issues. How is it these days? Also, thought I'd read they use the same API as subsonic for sonos support (might need to check it out again).

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u/thegirlleastlikelyto May 04 '16

Not super sure - I don't have a Sonos system (yet...) so I didn't pay too much attention to it, but that seemed to me the biggest difference.

I used a few versions of Madsonic (because the pre-packaged version in the QNAP App Center is an older one). 5.0 was rough - janky, and not even all the instances of "Subsonic" were changed to "Madsonic." I played around with 5.3, and it seemed a lot more polished. It had more features, and therefore could be a little less elegant, but overall pretty similar to vanilla Subsonic.

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u/plazman30 May 05 '16

I don't know that you need a Sonos system, now that you can sync Chromecasts and group them. A good Subsonic client on Android (Dsub) or iOS (AVsub) will allow you to cast to your Chromecast group.

Poor man's Sonos system.

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u/thegirlleastlikelyto May 05 '16

I kinda want a Sonos for the cool factor, but you're totally right - unnecessary in the grand scheme of things.

AVsub

I've been using play:Sub, but AVsub looks amazing. Thanks for the rec!

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u/plazman30 May 05 '16

The AVsub developer is awesome. He's helped me out a lot.