gonic
gonic is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Music Streaming category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in Go. It is a self-hosted alternative to Spotify and ships a Docker image. It has 2,630 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 24, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Music Streaming
- Go
- GPL-3.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 2,630
- Forks
- 167
- Open issues
- 54
- Commits, last 12 months
- 165
- Last commit
- Oct 24, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.23.0Oct 22, 2026
- Created
- Mar 29, 2019
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 24, 2026, 165 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases5 releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 24, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 165 |
| Latest release | v0.23.0 (Oct 22, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 5 |
| Releases, all time | 27 |
| Open issues | 54 |
| Open pull requests | 17 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Mar 29, 2019 |
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About gonic
Lightweight music streaming server. Subsonic compatible.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/sentriz/gonic.
Topics
- subsonic
- go
- golang
- subsonic-server
- music-streaming
- music-server
- airsonic
- self-hosted
- internet-radio
- opus
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Is gonic free and open source?
Yes. gonic is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run gonic with Docker?
Yes. gonic provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to gonic?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to gonic include Navidrome Music Server, koel and Beets. gonic itself is a self-hosted alternative to Spotify.
Is gonic actively maintained?
The most recent commit to gonic was on Oct 24, 2026 with 165 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.23.0, published Oct 22, 2026. It had 54 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.