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Airsonic

Free, web-based media streamer derived from Subsonic

Media Servers Archived ★ 2k stars Medium setup GPL-3.0

This project is archived. Upstream development has stopped, so expect no new features or security fixes. Consider an actively maintained media servers alternative.

Airsonic is a free, web-based media streamer providing access to your music collection from anywhere. It is the community fork of Subsonic and supports the Subsonic API for use with many client apps.

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Key features

  • Subsonic API support
  • Multi-user with roles
  • On-the-fly transcoding
  • Podcast support

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (2k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Java

Trade-offs

  • Original repo less active
  • Java memory usage

Is Airsonic secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Airsonic's latest release (v10.6.2). OSV.dev lists 3 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2019-10907, published 2019-04-07 (2747 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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