gonic
Lightweight music streaming server. Subsonic compatible.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 22 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.23.0 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Spotify.
At a glance
gonic quick facts
- Health score
- 84/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 2,639
- Last commit
- 3 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.23.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
Top alternatives to gonic
Full rankings: Spotify alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "the default login is admin/admin. password can then be changed from the web interface."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
gonic scores 84/100, #10 of 28 in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming: 22 commits in the last 90 days earn 25.7 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.23.0, 8 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 2,639 stars add 13.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 9.3 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 25.7 / 35
22 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.23.0 released 8 days ago
- Stars 13.7 / 20
2.6k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 22
- Last 90 days
- 167
- Last 12 months
- 3 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #10 of 28 tools in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming by health , between Ampache (#9) and mStream (#11) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Go, Docker |
| Latest release | v0.23.0 · 8 days ago |
| Stars | 2,639 |
| Open issues | 53 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | sentriz/gonic ↗ |
gonic vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with gonic (Media Streaming - Audio Streaming), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LMS | 93 | 1.7k | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| Beets | 87 | 16k | MIT | 2 days ago |
| koel | 87 | 17k | MIT | today |
| Ampache | 84 | 3.8k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| gonic (this tool) | 84 | 2.6k | GPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| Black Candy | 70 | 4.4k | MIT | 9 days ago |
gonic: common questions
What does gonic replace?
Repoly lists gonic as an open-source alternative to Spotify. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where gonic stands against the others.
Is gonic still maintained?
gonic had 22 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 days ago; the latest tagged release, v0.23.0, is from 8 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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