# agersant/polaris

Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.

Repository: https://github.com/agersant/polaris
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/agersant-polaris
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-05-08T02:20:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 81, release rhythm 59, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3671, "days_push": 118, "days_rel": 118, "gap_med": 128, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2724, forks 128 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:15.621040+00:00)

## What it is
Polaris is a self-hosted music streaming server written in Rust that serves your personal music collection to web browsers and mobile apps. It supports large libraries, multiple users with playlists, metadata browsing, and powerful search.

## Use cases
- stream my music collection from my own server
- self-host a music server for flac and mp3 files
- listen to my home music library on my phone
- host a music library with 100000+ songs
- browse music by album artist and genre in a web ui
- set up multi-user music streaming with playlists

## When to choose
- you want a free, open-source, self-hosted music server with no premium tier
- you have a very large music collection and need fast performance
- you want easy deployment on Windows, Linux, BSD, or Docker
- you want native mobile clients for Android and iOS

## When to avoid
- you want to stream podcasts or radio rather than a personal music library
- you need Subsonic API compatibility with existing third-party clients
- you want a hosted cloud music service without managing a server

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: http-server, audio-processing, self-hosted, search-engine, auth
- domain: self-hosted, media, web-development, cross-platform
- platform: windows, bsd, self-hosted, rust
- tags: music-streaming, music-server, audio-player, web-ui, media-server, subsonic-alternative, audio, linux, docker, web-server, android, ios

## Member repositories
- agersant/polaris (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:15.621040+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:14:50.821219+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/agersant/polaris (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:15.621040+00:00, sha 472d9e3b02d0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.