What is subsonic?
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It's a protocol for hosting music libraries.
Think of it like your personal Spotify backend.
I'm running navidrome to serve music to tempo on my devices.
Well, it’s not a protocol, Subsonic is an app that became pretty famous in the MP3 era and had a nice API for which various clients were developed.
The source code was Open Source in the early days which was forked into e.g. AirSonic, MadSonic, LibreSonic.
Those projects are dormant for a few years now. That’s why new ones have emerged that simulate the same API so all the client apps can still be used with them.
EDIT: Looks like these are projects that support the Subsonic API and are still in active development:
- Funkwhale (also: federated)
- Navidrome
- Gonic
- Airsonic-Advanced
- LMS
- Astiga
- Nextcloud/ownCloud Music
- SupySonic (headless server)
There is a project to standardize (and document) the API, called OpenSubsonic. It includes extensions, but the main value is that it tries to consistently document expected behavior. It's an uphill battle, because the Subsonic API is a schizophrenic mess, and no two servers interpret API responses the same way, but it's still a decent project. I contribute to a client, and we try to adhere to the OpenSubsonic documentation.
My only criticism about the API is that it's focused on streaming, which means we can't consolidate server control (e.g. mpd) and streaming, which would make writing versatile clients easier, but still.
Tempo is a fantastic client, BTW, and has largely replaced my local offline client use.
Nice!
Is there a concept of content discovery, where tell it I like this this that etc and it finds music you don't know but will like in the library?
Sweet! Tempo is the best subsonic client I've found for Android. Hoping to use it for a long time.
Tempo is great! I've really enjoyed it since I changed from Ultrasonic a few months back.
Subsonic? Is this still a thing?
Navidrome and Gonic are very active projects yes. Why would it not be a thing anymore? Works fantastic.
Ah, so alternative implementations. I’ve still got a license for the original Subsonic, but that hasn’t been updated in years by now.
Nextcloud music Also supports subsonic as a protocol, so clients also can be used with that.
This looks awesome! I'll give it a spin and see how it compares to DSub
Local server address??? This is what I have wanted the most for a long time. Great app, I'll take the update ASAP.
Really, thanks. Great app.
I actually installed the app on top of a Eversolo DMP-A6 Works fairly well. although the UI is a bit small on it.