Navidrome Music Server
Navidrome Music Server 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, Audible and Last.fm and ships a Docker image. It has 24,362 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 24,362
- Forks
- 1,776
- Open issues
- 139
- Commits, last 12 months
- 839
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.64.2Sep 24, 2026
- Created
- Feb 24, 2016
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 839 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 839 |
| Latest release | v0.64.2 (Sep 24, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 121 |
| Open issues | 139 |
| Open pull requests | 201 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Feb 24, 2016 |
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About Navidrome Music Server
Modern Music Server and Streamer, compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/navidrome/navidrome.
Topics
- music
- subsonic-server
- subsonic
- music-server
- airsonic
- streaming-audio
- streaming-api
- madsonic
- streamer
- self-hosted
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Is Navidrome Music Server free and open source?
Yes. Navidrome Music Server 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 Navidrome Music Server with Docker?
Yes. Navidrome Music Server provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. Our step-by-step deploy guide covers the Compose file, HTTPS and backups.
What are the best alternatives to Navidrome Music Server?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Navidrome Music Server include koel, Beets and Audiobookshelf. Navidrome Music Server itself is a self-hosted alternative to Spotify, Audible, Last.fm and Sonos.
Is Navidrome Music Server actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Navidrome Music Server was on Oct 26, 2026 with 839 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.64.2, published Sep 24, 2026. It had 139 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.