polaris

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Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.

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About

Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.

About

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.

The goals of this project are:

Exceptional performance and responsiveness
️ First-class support for large music collections (100,000+ songs)
️ Ease of installation, deployment and maintenance
✨ Beautiful user interface

Try It Out!

On your desktop or laptop computer, check out the demo over at https://demo.polaris.stream featuring a selection of Creative Commons Music. The credentials to access this server are:

Username: demo_user
Password: demo_password

Features

️ Runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, or through Docker
Support for flac, mp3, mp4, mpc, ogg, opus, ape, wav and aiff files
Dark mode variants and customizable color palette
️ Browse your music by album, artist or genre
Browse your music as a file tree
Song audio-waveform visualization
️ Support for multi-value fields in song metadata (eg. multiple artists per song)
️ Powerful search functionality with per-field queries
⚙️ Plain-text configuration also editable with built-in UI
Setup multiple users, each with their own playlists
Listen to your music on the go:
Polaris Android (Google Play Store · F-Droid · Repository)
Polarios (App Store · Repository) [third-party]
Polarity (Demo · Repository) [third-party]

Installation

Installation documentation

Streaming from remote devices

Documentation

The Polaris server API is documented via OpenAPI. Every installation of Polaris distributes this interactive documentation. To access it, open http://localhost:5050/api-docs/ in your browser on the machine running Polaris.