Airsonic VS pulseaudio-dlna

Airsonic

Airsonic is a Free and Open Source community driven media server which allows you to stream...

pulseaudio-dlna

A lightweight streaming server which brings DLNA / UPNP and Chromecast support to PulseAudio and Linux - masmu/pulseaudio-dlna

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Airsonic

Website: airsonic.github.io

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"Affordable Favorites" - Reverend Airsonic | Norman's Rare Guitars

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Ubuntu: Chromecast "Audio" not found by pulseaudio-dlna on 16.04

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Music Streaming

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Audio & Music

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Airsonic Reviews

35 Open-source Free Music and Audio Streaming Servers (Self-hosted)

Airsonic is a free, web-based media streamer that allows you to access and share your music collection. It supports streaming of various audio and video formats, including MP3, AAC, OGG, WMA, FLAC, and more. It is designed to handle large music collections and can stream to multiple players simultaneously.

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Social recommendations and mentions

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Airsonic mentions (11)

Music Media Manager for linux server (with web frontend?)
Https://airsonic.github.io/ seems like it might be what you're looking for? Not sure about duplicates, but it can deal with tags and artwork. Source: about 1 year ago
self-hosted alternative to spotify?
Airsonic is another choice that I've heard good things about. Installation video via docker here. I believe DSub will work with Airsonic too. Source: about 1 year ago
Looking for advice on streaming MPD database over local network to multiple clients
On the other hand, if you want a single Spotify-esque service from which multiple clients can stream the audio without managing their own databases, there are Subsonic and derivatives which also offer transcoding options. I use Airsonic for this purpose and use it to stream my music collection from my phone via Ultrasonic (available from F-Droid if you use Android). Source: over 1 year ago
Is Kodi or any addon able to stream or download media from cloud storage services?
You should look into one of the subsonic forks. Airsonic https://airsonic.github.io/. Source: over 1 year ago
Most private music streaming available?
What they're talking about is starting up a server so you can stream your own music files. This would involve setting up a server (either renting a hosted server or setting up your own machine) starting up an application like Airsonic (one of many Subsonic compliant applications), finding a good client to use like Ultrasonic (one of many Subsonic compliant clients), setting up domain names and DNS to point to that... Source: about 2 years ago

pulseaudio-dlna mentions (2)

Spotify Streaming to HiFi over DLNA?
I first setup pulseaudio on my raspberry pi, then use this repo: https://github.com/masmu/pulseaudio-dlna. Source: over 1 year ago
Multiroom Audio with Chromecast mixed in
If you're on Linux, you can use pulseaudio-dlna to send audio to Chromecasts. From there, you can point a snapcast client to the Chromecast audio device. Source: almost 3 years ago