Alternatives to Supersonic
Play music from your Subsonic or Jellyfin server. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Supersonic
Play music from your Subsonic or Jellyfin server.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Supersonic.
Plexamp
A music player from Plex for listening to and exploring the music library on a Plex server.
Plexamp works with a Plex Media Server instead of Subsonic or Jellyfin, adds mobile apps, but is closed source and gates some features behind Plex Pass.
Tauon
An open-source desktop music player for local collections, with Jellyfin and Airsonic streaming support.
Tauon is a GPL-3.0 Linux-focused player that streams from Jellyfin and Airsonic while also playing local files, with smart playlists and visualisations.
Symfonium
An Android music player for local files, NAS shares and servers like Plex, Jellyfin and Navidrome.
Symfonium is a paid Android app that connects to Jellyfin, Plex, Navidrome and NAS shares, moving playback from the desktop to phones.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Supersonic as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Finamp
An open-source music player app that streams and plays music from a Jellyfin server.
Supersonic plays music from Jellyfin or Subsonic servers in a native desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux with gapless playback, rather than on mobile.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Volumio
A music player operating system that turns a Raspberry Pi or PC into a network audio streamer.
Strawberry Music Player
A Clementine fork aimed at collectors, with proper support for high-resolution files and CD ripping.
foobar2000
A light, deeply configurable audio player for people who care about their local music library.
MusicBee
A Windows music manager for people with a large local library and opinions about tags.
DeaDBeeF
A light, plugin-driven music player for Linux, Windows and macOS that stays out of the way.
gonic
A lightweight self-hosted music streaming server that implements the Subsonic API.