üWave
Self-hosted collaborative listening platform. Users take turns playing media—songs, talks, gameplay videos, or anything else—from a variety of media sources like YouTube and SoundCloud.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 9 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.5.0-alpha.20 (Sep 2024).
Comparisons in Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming: Plex Pass alternatives.
At a glance
üWave quick facts
- Health score
- 27/100 STALE
- Stars
- 36
- Last commit
- 3 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.5.0-alpha.20, Sep 2024
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "The backend server for üWave, the collaborative listening platform."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
üWave scores 27/100, #15 of 17 in Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming: 9 commits in the last 90 days earn 10.5 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.5.0-alpha.20, 2.1 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 36 stars add 6.3 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 release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 10.5 / 35
9 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
v0.5.0-alpha.20 released 2.1 years ago
- Stars 6.3 / 20
36 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 9
- Last 90 days
- 9
- Last 12 months
- 3 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #15 of 17 tools in Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming by health , between cmyflix (#14) and NymphCast (#16) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Nodejs |
| Latest release | v0.5.0-alpha.20 · 2.1 years ago |
| Stars | 36 |
| Open issues | 15 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | u-wave/core ↗ |
üWave vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with üWave (Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jellyfin | 99 | 59k | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| MediaMTX | 97 | 21k | MIT | today |
| Gerbera | 93 | 1.4k | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| ClipBucket | 89 | 182 | AAL | yesterday |
| Karaoke Eternal | 53 | 922 | ISC | 2 months ago |
| üWave (this tool) | 27 | 36 | MIT | 3 days ago |
üWave: common questions
Is üWave still maintained?
üWave had 9 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 days ago; the latest tagged release, v0.5.0-alpha.20, is from 2.1 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.