Polaris Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Does anyone use Jellyfin for music?

  If you have a big library I would highly recommend Polaris Https://github.com/agersant/polaris. Source: about 1 year ago

• Best way to stream music from server to remote clients

  If you have a big library https://github.com/agersant/polaris is the way to go with easy to create large playlists and you can easy make a cloudflare tunnel or reverse proxy for it using caddy. They also have iOS and Android App. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is there a self-hosted software for hifi music streaming?

  It doesn't have a lot of features like complex searching and transcoding, but I like https://github.com/agersant/polaris. Source: over 1 year ago

• Apple Music is the last library focused music service

  Why not just run your own streaming service? You're here on hn, so standing up a webserver (or even a Raspberry Pi) is hardly beyond your means presumably. Subsonic [0] appears to be well polished. I've used a FOSS fork called Airsonic [1] previously, though I've played with (and liked) Polaris [2] in the past. All three would meet your (possibly only) requirement of using your own music, and I wouldn't consider... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Let's create an overview of selfhostable music servers!

  I can't send a PR right now, but https://github.com/agersant/polaris is worth adding. Source: over 2 years ago

• Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

  Had a hard time too but I think it's this https://github.com/agersant/polaris. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Self-hosted old Google Music? No streaming, but a client player that downloads/plays.

  Https://github.com/agersant/polaris/ is nice, but only support local caching in the Android client. Source: over 2 years ago

• Is there a self hosted media player?

  I really like https://github.com/agersant/polaris, though it doesn't support file system change detection yet. Source: almost 3 years ago