Subsonic (media server)

Infobox Software
name = Subsonic


caption = Subsonic's main interface
developer = Sindre Mehus
released = 2005-02-10
latest_release_version = 3.4
latest_release_date = 27 April 2008
frequently_updated = yes
programming language = Java
operating system = Platform indepenent (written in an interpreted language)
language = English
genre = Media server
license = LGPL
website = [http://subsonic.sourceforge.net subsonic.sourceforge.net]

Subsonic is a free, open source, web-based media server. Because Subsonic was written in Java, it may be run on any operating system with java support. Subsonic supports streaming to multiple clients simultaneously, and supports any streamable media (including MP3, AAC, and Ogg). Subsonic also supports on-the-fly media conversion (through the use of plugins of most popular media formats, including WMA, FLAC, and more.

Other features

* Skinnable
*Built-in web-based music player
*One-click album art and album metadata lookup through Amazon.com, Discogs.com and other sources
*Integrated podcatcher
* Bandwidth throttling (manual or automatic)

Usage

Though a relatively young program, Subsonic's Sourceforge project page shows that there have been over 58,000 unique downloads of the software, 13,900 of which were from the latest version (3.4) alone. [cite web
title = Subsonic
work = Sourceforge
url = http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=126265&package_id=138060
accessdate = 2008-10-11] Subsonic is also featured on software download sites such as Download.com [cite web
title = Subsonic download page
work = Download.com
url = http://www.download.com/Subsonic/3000-2017_4-10793921.html
accessdate = 2008-03-08]

ee also

*Free audio software

References

External links

[http://subsonic.sourceforge.net/ Official website]