What problem it solves

People need a way to listen to their music collection from a browser or mobile device. Navidrome addresses this with a web-based music collection server and streamer, including multi-user support.

Key features

• Self-hosted music streaming — Run your own server and access the collection from a browser or mobile device through a themeable web interface built on Material UI.

  Source: README, ui

• Format and metadata handling — Reads curated metadata from the library, supports compilations and box sets, and streams virtually any audio format available.

  Source: README, scanner

• Multi-user accounts — Each user has their own play counts, playlists and favourites.

  Source: README, server

• Automatic library monitoring — The server watches the music folder and imports new files, reloading new metadata as the collection changes.

  Source: README, scanner

• On-the-fly transcoding and client compatibility — Transcoding can be configured per user or player, with Opus encoding supported, and the server works with Subsonic/Madsonic/Airsonic clients.

  Source: README, api

Who it may suit

Inference: may suit self-hosters and music collectors who want to stream their own libraries, and library maintainers who need multi-user playback of a shared collection.

Topics to discuss

• Which Subsonic-compatible clients should be tested first when features change?

• What is the community's preferred way to run the server, Docker images or pre-built binaries?

• Which metadata or lyrics formats should the scanner prioritize adding next?

Written by ReadmeX AI from the project's README, source and public GitHub data; it may contain mistakes.

Read the original README https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome#readme

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