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Polaris, a self-hosted music streaming server in Rust
Published at
Feb 5, 2025
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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!
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,wavandaifffiles - 🌈 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]
Installation
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.
Credits & License Information
Music featured in the demo installation: