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SlimServer, better known as Logitech Media Server, is a lightweight, extensible music server that indexes your library and streams audio to hardware players and software clients around the house. It scans folders for music and cover art, builds fast search indexes, and serves rich metadata to web, mobile, and player UIs. Playback can be synchronized across rooms with per-player volume and latency controls, and it supports a wide range of formats via built-in decoders and on-the-fly transcoding. A powerful plugin system adds services like internet radio, podcasts, and streaming platforms, as well as utilities for alarms, lyrics, and advanced tagging. Administration happens through a friendly web interface, with options for library rescans, playlist management, and performance tuning on small devices like the Raspberry Pi. Written largely in Perl and designed to be cross-platform, it runs happily on Linux, macOS, Windows, and many NAS appliances, making it a dependable hub for whole-home
Features
- Streams local music libraries, internet radio stations, and music services via plugins
- Supports a wide variety of audio codecs: MP3, FLAC, WAV, Ogg, Opus, AAC, and DSD formats like DSF, DFF, DSD WavPack
- Offers synchronized multi-room playback across hardware and software clients
- Extensible through plugins—supporting services, skins, automation integrations, Alexa control, and more
- Written in Perl, ensuring cross-platform deployment on systems like Linux, Windows, macOS, Raspberry Pi, and Docker
- Maintained actively by a community that continues to add features, fix bugs, and sustain ecosystem compatibility
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