Show HN: Polaris, a self-hosted music streaming server in Rust
github.comI'm happy to announce the release of Polaris 0.15.0 . Polaris is a self-hosted music streaming server, to enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device. It is free and open-source software, without any kind of premium version.
This release is the biggest one since Polaris' humble beginnings 9 years ago. It's technically not a rewrite but there is not much code that was left untouched. The highlights are:
- New visual design for the web client (screenshots[1]) - Ability to browse the music collection by artist/album/genre, not only by file - Support for multi-value fields in song metadata (eg. multiple artists on the same song) - Revamped search functionality, now supporting per-field queries and boolean operators - Android client now supports search and playlists (and all the new features from this release)
See the changelog[2] for a complete list of improvements.
This release is a result of many months of work. I hope all the love and effort I put into it are visible in the end result .
[1]: https://github.com/agersant/polaris/discussions/227
[2]: https://github.com/agersant/polaris/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md Out of interest, why a new protocol instead of supporting subsonic or mpd or whatever? This project was started when Subsonic became closed-source in 2016 (which made me very upset). I wasn't too excited about using that API at the time. Nowadays, OpenSubsonic looks like a protocol worth supporting so I will be looking into it! Slightly off-topic I suppose but is there any open-source music server that supports streaming to AirPlay devices? The only truly functional solution I've seen so far is Roon which is $15 per month or $830 one-off purchase, both of which are out of my budget. You don’t want to airplay from an iPhone or Mac? That’s what I do, using Finamp. I guess it’s a client and not a music server. I am a current Roon user and have been for a few years. I will try this out and compare. Nice work! Always happy to see more competition in this space. Does it support replaygain? Not at the moment, although this fits well into the project scope. I'll keep an eye on it then but without replaygain its a no-go for me. Best of luck :)