Subsonic (media server)

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Subsonic
Subsonic's main interface
Developed by	Sindre Mehus
Initial release	2005-02-10
Written in	Java
OS	Platform indepenent (written in an interpreted language)
Available in	English
Genre	Media server
License	LGPL
Website	subsonic.sourceforge.net

Subsonic is a free, open source, web-based media server. Because Subsonic was written in Java, it may be run on any operating system with java support. Subsonic supports streaming to multiple clients simultaneously, and supports any streamable media (including MP3, AAC, and Ogg). Subsonic also supports on-the-fly media conversion (through the use of plugins of most popular media formats, including WMA, FLAC, and more.

1 Other features
2 Usage
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Other features

Skinnable
Built-in web-based music player
One-click album art and album metadata lookup through Amazon.com
One-click lyrics lookup
Bandwidth throttling (manual or automatic)

[edit] Usage

Though a relatively young program, Subsonic's Sourceforge project page shows that there have been over 32,000 unique downloads of the software, 9,200 of which were from the latest version (3.3) alone.^[1] Subsonic is also featured on software download sites such as Download.com^[2]