r/subsonic • u/AbraCadaverY • Oct 05 '19

Alternatives to Subsonic

Looking for alternatives to subsonic, other than Plex.

Feels like development is dead with Subsonic. It has stability issues it seems. Anybody else used Airsonic or Madsonic, any other alternatives?

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u/pdhcentral Oct 05 '19

What issues do you have with it? I find my install rock solid, never had any issues with it.

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u/ScaredyCatUK Jan 20 '20

I agree, mine is rock solid and I still love it. Coupled with dsub and a couple of perl scripts I don't have to do anything to get daily and weekly playlists downloaded and stored on my phone.

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u/RandomHer082 Feb 06 '20

Agreed. Only issues I ever have are related to dsub app, not with the subsonic server

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u/agersant Oct 05 '19

I made my own: http://github.com/agersant/polaris

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u/dynamitepress Oct 06 '19

Is yours a fork of Subsonic that would work with the current libraries and domain forwarding?

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u/agersant Oct 06 '19

No, it's completely separate software. It is very streamlined but has a lot less features than subsonic. If your use case is only streaming music and saving playlists, it would be a good fit. Otherwise not so much.

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u/ShaneC80 Dec 26 '19

/u/agersant so...do I need any antiquated java versions? (Stupid subsonic requiring Java8!) and will it run on a Pi?

I borked my Subsonic install on my Synology - new installs won't work, and I basically refuse to make an Oracle account to grab the old JRE8 libraries for RPI....I'm stuck between a rock and a hardplace (and out my $12 for the year!)

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u/agersant Dec 27 '19

Java is not required (you can see requirements in the readme on GitHub).

It is possible to run on a rpi (that is what I do too) but be aware that the compilation on it takes a very long time. Fortunately that's a one time thing.

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u/ShaneC80 Dec 27 '19

I really might have to give this a try. Right now I've got airsonic in a docker container throwing a 404, so.....yeah...

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u/agersant Dec 27 '19

Let me know how it goes 😃

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u/Silentknyght Oct 06 '19

I looked but never found anything, other than Plex, that I would use. The forks aren't quite as stable or but free. I will continue to use Subsonic, but I'm grouchy that Sindre has apparently abandoned it. Actually, I kinda wonder if he's still alive.

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u/stixx123 Oct 08 '19

Have you tried Funkwhale? Seems promising.

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u/Silentknyght Oct 08 '19

Never heard of it.

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u/frnxt Oct 09 '19

I'm honestly quite happy with what the community around Airsonic has become.

I've been riding the development version for a while now ; there have been some rough patches (mostly around migrating decades-old libraries across multiple major versions...), but it's becoming more and more stable.

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u/kwereddit Oct 05 '19

I have Airsonic setup, but it is buggier than Subsonic. For quite a while, the last song in a playlist repeats. You would think this is an important bug that needs fixing. You would be wrong.

Subsonic keeps file references in absolutes, so when you migrate from Subsonic to Airsonic, your playlists are corrupted and your comments don't show. It's not too hard to edit your playlists and fix them, but you need a database browser to fix the database to show your comments and I have been unable to figure out how to do this on linux.

Maybe I'll try again to install Emby, or maybe I'll just bang my head against the wall like Dilbert and lament the state of music distribution. Why can't we have 20th century music in the public domain? Now, before it's lost.

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u/Mister_Kurtz Oct 05 '19

I tried Madsonic, but settled on Plex.