Subsonic (media server)
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This article is about the cross-platform media software. For Windows object-relational mapper, see SubSonic (software).
 Subsonic's main interface |
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| Developer(s) | Sindre Mehus |
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| Initial release | 2005-02-10 |
| Stable release | 4.6 / 06 December 2011 |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Platform independent (written in an interpreted language) |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Media server |
| License | GPL |
| Website | subsonic.org |
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.
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[edit] Other features
- Skinnable
- Built-in web-based music player
- One-click album art and album metadata lookup through Google Image search
- Integrated podcatcher
- Bandwidth throttling (manual or automatic)
[edit] Usage
Subsonic's Sourceforge project page shows that as of August 2011 there have been over 580,000 downloads of the software.[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Subsonic's download history". Sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/subsonic/files/stats/timeline?dates=2004-12-09+to+2011-08-23. Retrieved 2011-08-23.
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