FLOSS alternative to subsonic, supporting its many clients

features

• browsing by folder (keeping your full tree intact) see here
• browsing by tags (using taglib - supports mp3, opus, flac, ape, m4a, wav, etc.)
• on-the-fly audio transcoding and caching (requires ffmpeg) (thank you spijet)
• jukebox mode (thank you lxea)
• support for per-user podcasts (thank you lxea)
• pretty fast scanning (with my library of ~27k tracks, initial scan takes about 10m, and about 5s after incrementally)
• multiple users, each with their own transcoding preferences, playlists, top tracks, top artists, etc.
• last.fm scrobbling
• listenbrainz scrobbling (thank you spezifisch, lxea)
• artist similarities and biographies from the last.fm api
• multiple genre support (see GONIC_GENRE_SPLIT to split tag strings on a character, eg. ;, and browse them individually)
• a web interface for configuration (set up last.fm, manage users, start scans, etc.)
• support for the album-artist tag, to not clutter your artist list with compilation album appearances
• written in go, so lightweight and suitable for a raspberry pi, etc. (see ARM images below)
• newer salt and token auth
• tested on dsub, jamstash, sublime music, soundwaves, and stmp

installation

the default login is admin/admin.
password can then be changed from the web interface

...from source

$ apt install build-essential git sqlite libtag1-dev ffmpeg libasound-dev # for debian like
$ pacman -S base-devel git sqlite taglib ffmpeg alsa-lib                  # for arch like
$ go install go.senan.xyz/gonic/cmd/gonic@latest
$ export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin
$ gonic -h # or see "configuration options below"

note: unfortunately if you do this above, you'll be compiling gonic locally on your machine (if someone knows how I can statically link sqlite3 and taglib, please let me know so I can distribute static binaries)

...with docker

the image is available on dockerhub as sentriz/gonic

available architectures are

• linux/amd64
• linux/arm/v6
• linux/arm/v7
• linux/arm64

# example docker-compose.yml

version: '2.4'
services:
  gonic:
    image: sentriz/gonic:latest
    environment:
    - TZ
    # optionally, see more env vars below
    expose:
    - 80
    volumes:
    - ./data:/data                # gonic db etc
    - /path/to/music:/music:ro    # your music
    - /path/to/podcasts:/podcasts # your podcasts
    - /path/to/cache:/cache       # transcode / covers / etc cache dir

    # set the following two sections if you've enabled jukebox
    group_add:
    - audio
    devices:
    - /dev/snd:/dev/snd

then start with docker-compose up -d

...with systemd

tested on Ubuntu 21.04

1. install go 1.16 or newer, check version, and install dependencies

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install golang

$ go version
go version go1.16.2 linux/amd64

$ sudo apt install build-essential git sqlite libtag1-dev ffmpeg libasound-dev

2. install / compile gonic globally, and check version

$ sudo GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go install go.senan.xyz/gonic/cmd/gonic@latest

$ gonic -version
v0.14.0

3. add a gonic user, create a data directory, and install a config file

$ sudo adduser --system --no-create-home --group gonic
$ sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/gonic/ /etc/gonic/
$ sudo chown -R gonic:gonic /var/lib/gonic/
$ sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sentriz/gonic/master/contrib/config -O /etc/gonic/config

4. update the config with your music-path, podcast-path, etc

$ sudo nano /etc/gonic/config
music-path        <path to your music dir>
podcast-path      <path to your podcasts dir>
cache-path        <path to cache dir>

5. install the systemd service, check status or logs

$ sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sentriz/gonic/master/contrib/gonic.service -O /etc/systemd/system/gonic.service
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl enable --now gonic

$ systemctl status gonic            # check status, should be active (running)
$ journalctl --follow --unit gonic  # check logs

should be installed and running on boot now 👍
view the admin UI at http://localhost:4747

...elsewhere

configuration options

env var	command line arg	description
GONIC_MUSIC_PATH	-music-path	path to your music collection
GONIC_PODCAST_PATH	-podcast-path	path to a podcasts directory
GONIC_CACHE_PATH	-cache-path	path to store audio transcodes, covers, etc
GONIC_DB_PATH	-db-path	optional path to database file
GONIC_LISTEN_ADDR	-listen-addr	optional host and port to listen on (eg. 0.0.0.0:4747, 127.0.0.1:4747) (default 0.0.0.0:4747)
GONIC_PROXY_PREFIX	-proxy-prefix	optional url path prefix to use if behind reverse proxy. eg /gonic (see example configs below)
GONIC_SCAN_INTERVAL	-scan-interval	optional interval (in minutes) to check for new music (automatic scanning disabled if omitted)
GONIC_JUKEBOX_ENABLED	-jukebox-enabled	optional whether the subsonic jukebox api should be enabled
GONIC_GENRE_SPLIT	-genre-split	optional a string or character to split genre tags on for multi-genre support (eg. ;)

screenshots

example nginx config with GONIC_PROXY_PREFIX

  location /gonic/ {
      proxy_pass http://localhost:4747/;
      # set "Secure" cookie if using HTTPS
      proxy_cookie_path / "/; Secure";
      # set "X-Forwarded-Host" header for last.fm connection callback
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
  }

directory structure

when browsing by folder, any arbitrary and nested folder layout is supported. with one exception: albums must be contained in a single folder

please see here for more context

music
├── drum and bass
│   └── Photek
│       └── (1997) Modus Operandi
│           ├── 01.10 The Hidden Camera.flac
│           ├── 02.10 Smoke Rings.flac
│           ├── 03.10 Minotaur.flac
│           └── folder.jpg
└── experimental
    └── Alan Vega
        ├── (1980) Alan Vega
        │   ├── 01.08 Jukebox Babe.flac
        │   ├── 02.08 Fireball.flac
        │   ├── 03.08 Kung Foo Cowboy.flac
        │   └── folder.jpg
        └── (1990) Deuce Avenue
            ├── 01.13 Body Bop Jive.flac
            ├── 02.13 Sneaker Gun Fire.flac
            ├── 03.13 Jab Gee.flac
            └── folder.jpg