Subsonic works well enough, if you ignore the fact that it requires Java, frequently corrupts its own database, doesn't properly cache certain file formats on the client side even though it sends transcoded files (this one is inexplicable to me), and has many other strange quirks. Worst of all, though, is that it bills itself as free software, but requires activation after a short period of use, and patches to circumvent the ransomware anti-features have been taken down (not sure why tho). Recently, the pod catcher has been crippled and made ransomware as well.

A good replacement would be welcome.

I am looking for a music player that plays playlists in a more intelligent way. If I rated a song with 5 stars it should be played more often in a random fashion then a song with 3 stars. And I never want to hear again a 1 star song, and rarely a 2 star song. If I press the next/skip button while a song is playing, it should decrease the star rating after the second time. If I play a song two or three times in a row it should increase the star rating.

I've been using ampache, because I hate java, but it's pretty much the same thing. Both products work really well

Subsonic is great.

I switched to Kodi with the chorus web application that allows controlling and streaming your music to the web browser. Not as feature rich, but together with yatse on my android devices it means a raspberry pi with only kodi running can be a total home media server.

Subsonic is nice, but I'm running it on a Raspberry Pi 2 and you really can feel how haevy Java is on a machine like that. It would be nice to have a lightweight server with the same API but no webfrontend and written in C or go or something for speed. Right now, when I want to start playing a song it sometimes takes up to a couple of seconds what should be instantanious in for example Clementine.

I just want to echo the love for Subsonic (and the iOS iSub app). I happily used Google Music until I hit the (at the time) 20k track limit. Now that I've been running and using Subsonic for a couple years, I consider it a complete upgrade in terms of features and performance.

I had not heard of koel or ampache until today, but choices will always be welcomed.

I've been happy using Subsonic, though just this week I upgraded the server and got jetty db corruption. The forums have a few other people complaining of this (on Linux) and no solutions. Very frustrating.