Show HN: Polaris, a self-hosted music streaming server in Rust

[agersant]

I'm happy to announce the release of Polaris 0.15.0 . 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.

This release is the biggest one since Polaris' humble beginnings 9 years ago. It's technically not a rewrite but there is not much code that was left untouched. The highlights are:

- New visual design for the web client (screenshots[1]) - Ability to browse the music collection by artist/album/genre, not only by file - Support for multi-value fields in song metadata (eg. multiple artists on the same song) - Revamped search functionality, now supporting per-field queries and boolean operators - Android client now supports search and playlists (and all the new features from this release)

See the changelog[2] for a complete list of improvements.

This release is a result of many months of work. I hope all the love and effort I put into it are visible in the end result .

[1]: https://github.com/agersant/polaris/discussions/227 [2]: https://github.com/agersant/polaris/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

[bananapub]

Out of interest, why a new protocol instead of supporting subsonic or mpd or whatever?

[agersant]

This project was started when Subsonic became closed-source in 2016 (which made me very upset). I wasn't too excited about using that API at the time. Nowadays, OpenSubsonic looks like a protocol worth supporting so I will be looking into it!

[utf_8x]

Slightly off-topic I suppose but is there any open-source music server that supports streaming to AirPlay devices? The only truly functional solution I've seen so far is Roon which is $15 per month or $830 one-off purchase, both of which are out of my budget.

[phildenhoff]

You don’t want to airplay from an iPhone or Mac? That’s what I do, using Finamp. I guess it’s a client and not a music server.

[latentcall]

I am a current Roon user and have been for a few years. I will try this out and compare. Nice work! Always happy to see more competition in this space.

[Novosell]

Does it support replaygain?

[agersant]

Not at the moment, although this fits well into the project scope.

[Novosell]

I'll keep an eye on it then but without replaygain its a no-go for me.

Best of luck :)