musikcube
Streaming audio server with Linux/macOS/Windows/Android clients.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Mar 2026.
Comparisons in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming: Spotify alternatives, SoundCloud alternatives, Podbean alternatives.
At a glance
musikcube quick facts
- Health score
- 39/100 STALE
- Stars
- 4,858
- Last commit
- 7 months ago (Mar 2026)
- Latest release
- 3.0.5, Sep 2025
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "a cross-platform, terminal-based audio engine, library, player and server written in c++."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
musikcube scores 39/100, #25 of 28 in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (3.0.5, 1.1 years ago) earns 14.6 of 25, 4,858 stars add 14.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 14.6 / 25
3.0.5 released 1.1 years ago
- Stars 14.7 / 20
4.9k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 1
- Last 12 months
- 7 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #25 of 28 tools in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming by health , between Supysonic (#24) and Stretto (#26) .
Details
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Platforms | C++, deb |
| Latest release | 3.0.5 · 1.1 years ago |
| Stars | 4,858 |
| Open issues | 170 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | clangen/musikcube ↗ |
musikcube vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with musikcube (Media Streaming - Audio Streaming), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audiobookshelf | 97 | 15k | GPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
| koel | 87 | 17k | MIT | today |
| Ampache | 84 | 3.8k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| gonic | 84 | 2.6k | GPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| mStream | 84 | 2.4k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| musikcube (this tool) | 39 | 4.9k | BSD-3-Clause | 7 months ago |
musikcube: common questions
Is musikcube still maintained?
musikcube had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 7 months ago; the latest tagged release, 3.0.5, is from 1.1 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.