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Amberwave

Amberwave is a self-hosted music server for people who care about their collection and how it sounds – without subscription and without cloud.[br][br] -…

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Amberwave is a self-hosted music server for people who care about their collection and how it sounds – without subscription and without cloud.

- Library based on MusicBrainz: multiple artists per album, editions, credits, artist pages
- Web app / PWA for phone and desktop, streaming from anywhere via Cloudflare Tunnel (no open ports), live transcoding to Opus/AAC
- Remote control between devices
- Windows client with bit-perfect output (WASAPI exclusive, ASIO), output routing and VST3 effects
- Built-in tube, transformer and tape saturation and room sound
- Family accounts; the music folder stays read-only until you allow writing in the app

All-in-one: MariaDB 11.8 LTS is included, no second container needed. Set your music folder and an admin user name and password below, start, open the WebUI and log in. Public beta.

Platform availability

Available on 1 of 9 platforms

  • Unraid
  • TrueNAS (not listed)
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS (not listed)
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm (not listed)
  • Mac (not listed)
  • Windows (not listed)
  • Linux (not listed)

Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

39/100 Low

Maintained
72last commit 0 days ago
Popular
00 GitHub stars
Easy to install
201 install platform, Docker image
Light to run
No data

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today

GitHub stars
0
Open issues
0
Last commit
2026-10-31
License
AGPL-3.0
Activity
rising

Checked today - source: GitHub (lfrank95/amberwave)

Resources & Compatibility

Requirements not published yet.

Checked today - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

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