Synara is a music server you run on your own hardware. Your FLAC, WAV and AIFF files stay lossless, and native apps on Android and desktop play them the way they were recorded.
You run Synara once, at home or on a server you rent. Your apps connect to it, wherever you are. Nothing goes through a service you don't control.
Your server
Android
Desktop
Apple Coming soon
Synara is a music server you run on your own hardware. Your FLAC, WAV and AIFF files stay lossless, and native apps on Android and desktop play them the way they were recorded.
The server is open source under GPL-2.0. The apps are free.
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You run Synara once, at home or on a server you rent. Your apps connect to it, wherever you are. Nothing goes through a service you don't control.
Any machine that runs Docker
Android
Android 12 and newer. Offline downloads, a player widget.
Desktop
Linux, Windows and macOS. Visualizer, lyrics, Discord presence.
Apple Coming soon
iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS and CarPlay.
Also works with any Subsonic-compatible player, and with AI assistants that speak MCP.
Linux, Windows, macOS
Android 12 and newer
Coming soon
Your library is kept in a lossless format: FLAC by default, or WAV/AIFF. Synara transcodes to Opus or AAC on the fly, or ahead of time, when a connection or download needs it. The lossless file stays untouched.
The lossless file as it sits in your library, in FLAC, WAV or AIFF. Nothing is re-encoded.
Import into your own library from the services you already use. Tidal imports use your own account and include Dolby Atmos.
Tracks, albums and artists are matched and enriched from MusicBrainz, so credits and release info stay consistent.
Lyrics from Better Lyrics, Unison, LyricsPlus, KuGou, LRCLIB and YouTube Music, or your own .lrc, .ttml and .lyricsfile.yaml files next to the tracks. Word-synced, line-synced or plain, depending on the source, and you can pin the version you prefer.
The apps scrobble to ListenBrainz and Last.fm, and the server imports your ListenBrainz history.
Two accounts on the same server that use the same ListenBrainz account can be linked, so their plays count as one listening history in recent listens, stats and top lists, and optionally in recommendations. An admin can link any two accounts.
On the Apple apps and desktop, share one queue across your devices and control playback on one device from another. Android devices can be controlled remotely too.
Radio and recommendations built from your library and listening history, plus podcasts in the same apps.
Keep using a Subsonic player you already like. It connects to /rest with a Subsonic password or API key you create in Synara.
Let an AI assistant answer questions about your listening history. Read-only, nothing can be changed.
Add importers, indexers, routes, scheduled tasks or screens with a Kotlin or Java plugin.
Light sync during playback.
Backups and restore.
Desktop
Linux, Windows, macOS
Android
Android 12 and newer
Apple
Coming soon
The smallest setup is a single container with SQLite. Add Postgres, a Redis cluster and the trained recommendation model later, when your library grows.
compose.yaml and change the secrets.docker compose up -d.services:
synara:
image: ghcr.io/dertyp7214/synara:latest-dev
ports:
- "8080:8080"
environment:
CLIENT_ID: admin # initial admin user (first run)
CLIENT_SECRET: change-me # initial admin password
JWT_SECRET: change-me-to-a-long-random-string
DB_URL: jdbc:sqlite:/data/synara.db # SQLite database file inside the data volume
# CREDENTIALS_ENCRYPTION_KEY: "" # openssl rand -base64 32
volumes:
- synara_data:/data
- synara_config:/home/appuser/.config
- synara_tiddl:/home/appuser/.tiddl
- synara_backups:/backups
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
synara_data:
synara_config:
synara_tiddl:
synara_backups:
The smallest setup is a single container with SQLite. Add Postgres, a Redis cluster and the trained recommendation model later, when your library grows.
compose.yaml and change the secrets.docker compose up -d.services:
synara:
image: ghcr.io/dertyp7214/synara:latest-dev
ports:
- "8080:8080"
environment:
CLIENT_ID: admin # initial admin user (first run)
CLIENT_SECRET: change-me # initial admin password
JWT_SECRET: change-me-to-a-long-random-string
DB_URL: jdbc:sqlite:/data/synara.db # SQLite database file inside the data volume
# CREDENTIALS_ENCRYPTION_KEY: "" # openssl rand -base64 32
volumes:
- synara_data:/data
- synara_config:/home/appuser/.config
- synara_tiddl:/home/appuser/.tiddl
- synara_backups:/backups
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
synara_data:
synara_config:
synara_tiddl:
synara_backups:
Desktop for Linux, Windows and macOS. Android 12 and newer. Apple apps are coming soon.
