Beetstream

Beetstream is a Beets.io plugin that exposes SubSonic API endpoints, allowing you to stream your music everywhere.

Motivation

I personally use Beets to manage my music library on a Raspberry Pi but when I was looking for a way to stream it to my phone I couldn't find any comfortable, suitable and free options.
I tried AirSonic and SubSonic, Plex and some other tools but a lot of these solutions want to manage the library as they need (but I prefer Beets) and AirSonic/SubSonic were quite slow and CPU intensive and seemed to have a lot of overhead just to browse albums and send music files. Thus said, SubSonic APIs are good and implemented by a lot of different clients, so I decided to re-implement the server side but based on Beets database (and some piece of code).

Install & Run

Requires Python 3.8 or newer.

1. First of all, you need to install Beets:

2. Install the dependancies with:

$ pip install beetstream

3. Enable the plugin for Beets in your config file ~/.config/beets/config.yaml:

plugins: beetstream

4. Optional You can change the host and port in your config file ~/.config/beets/config.yaml.
   You can also chose to never re-encode files even if the clients asks for it with the option never_transcode: True. This can be useful if you have a weak CPU or a lot of clients.

Here are the default values:

beetstream:
  host: 0.0.0.0
  port: 8080
  never_transcode: False

5. Run with:

$ beet beetstream

Clients Configuration

Authentication

There is currently no security whatsoever. You can put whatever user and password you want in your favorite app.

Server and Port

Currently runs on port 8080. i.e: https://192.168.1.10:8080. You can configure it in ~/.config/beets/config.yaml. Defaults are:

beetstream:
  host: 0.0.0.0
  port: 8080

Supported Clients

All clients below are working with this server. By "working", it means one can use most of the features, browse library and most importantly play music!

Android

• Subsonic (official app)
• DSub
• Audinaut
• Ultrasonic
• GoSONIC
• Subtracks
• Music Stash
• substreamer

Desktop

• Clementine

Web

• Jamstash (Chrome App)
• SubFire

Currently supports a subset of API v1.16.1, avaiable as Json, Jsonp and XML.

Contributing

There is still some missing endpoints and TODO in the code. Feel free to create some PR!