Airsonic Advanced Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Airsonic Advanced hosting and stream your own music library from a private server. xCloud runs the pinned Airsonic Advanced 11.0.0-SNAPSHOT image, generates the administrator password in place of the upstream default, mounts persistent volumes for your data, music, playlists and podcasts, and publishes the web player and Subsonic API over HTTPS in minutes.

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What is Airsonic Advanced?

Airsonic Advanced is a self-hosted music streaming server. It serves your own library through a web player and a Subsonic-compatible API, so mobile and desktop Subsonic apps can connect to the same site.

It also handles playlists, podcasts and on-the-fly transcoding. This template deploys the 11.0.0-SNAPSHOT.20240424015024 build, the latest image upstream has published.

From Sign-Up to a Live Music Server In Just 3 Easy Steps

A self-hosted music server normally means a container, volumes for the library, a replaced default login, a domain and a certificate before the first track plays. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Airsonic Advanced from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Airsonic Advanced image, pinned by immutable digest, with its embedded HSQLDB database, mount the airsonic_data, airsonic_music, airsonic_playlists and airsonic_podcasts volumes, generate the administrator password, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Add Music
Open your HTTPS Airsonic Advanced URL and sign in as admin with the generated password from the protected installation credentials; the first start can take a few minutes. Copy music into the container's /var/music directory, then run a scan from Settings, then Media folders.

Everything Airsonic Advanced Does, On Your Own Server

Airsonic Advanced runs in full here: a web player and Subsonic-compatible API for your own library, on your own domain.

Web Player And Subsonic API
Stream in the browser, or connect Subsonic-compatible mobile and desktop apps to your site URL with the admin or any other account.
Playlists And Podcasts
Build playlists and keep podcast episodes alongside your music, in the same app.
On-The-Fly Transcoding
Streams are transcoded as they play; a test track scanned and streamed as audio/mpeg in verification.
Separate Listener Accounts
Create accounts for family or friends so they can stream the library without sharing the admin login.
Default Login Replaced
The upstream admin/admin login is replaced at install time with a generated password, and the install stops rather than leave the known password in place.
Large Browser Uploads
The site accepts browser uploads up to 2 GB per request; behind Cloudflare a single request is capped at about 100 MB.

Everything You Need To Run Your Music Server 24/7

Managed hosting for Airsonic Advanced, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Airsonic Advanced 11.0.0-SNAPSHOT deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin password generated for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Airsonic Advanced

Stream your own library anywhere
Keep your music on a server you control and play it in the browser or in Subsonic-compatible apps instead of depending on a streaming subscription's catalogue.
Share a library with family or friends
Create separate listener accounts so each person has their own sign-in while the admin account stays private.
Keep playlists and podcasts together
Run playlists and downloaded podcast episodes in one app, each on its own persistent volume.
Use the mobile app you already like
Point any Subsonic-compatible mobile or desktop client at your site URL and sign in with your account.

Airsonic Advanced vs Alternatives

Navidrome: A single Go binary with SQLite, a modern web player and Subsonic API support, also available as a OneClick app on xCloud.
Jellyfin: A media server for your own library that also covers video, available as a OneClick app on xCloud.
Spotify: A hosted subscription service with the provider's catalogue; Airsonic Advanced instead streams the files you put on your own server.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Airsonic Advanced hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Airsonic Advanced shares the server with other media apps.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Airsonic Advanced itself is licensed by its maintainers under GPL-3.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Music Server?

Airsonic Advanced on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is this a stable release?

No. It is the latest published upstream image, an unreleased 11.x snapshot from 2024-04-24. The last tagged release (10.6.0) has no published container image, and upstream warns that 11.x data is not backwards compatible with 10.6.

How do I sign in?

Use admin and the generated password in the protected installation credentials. The upstream default admin/admin is disabled; verification confirmed it is rejected and the generated password signs in.

Can I use mobile apps?

Yes. Subsonic-compatible apps connect to your site URL with the admin or any other account.

How do I add music?

Copy files into the container's /var/music directory, then start a scan from Settings, then Media folders.

Does DLNA or UPnP discovery work?

No. The DLNA/UPnP ports (4041 and 1900/udp) are not published, so TV and speaker discovery is unavailable. The web player and Subsonic API work over HTTPS.

Is the sign-in page public?

Anyone with the URL sees the sign-in page, and any account you create can stream the library. Keep the admin password private and use separate listener accounts.

How do I change the administrator password?

The generated password is applied once; changing ADMIN_PASSWORD later does not change it inside the app. Change it in the app under Settings, then Credentials: add the new password before deleting the old one.

What should I back up?

All four volumes together — airsonic_data, airsonic_music, airsonic_playlists and airsonic_podcasts — and keep an off-server copy.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Users, the library index, playlists and podcast files. In QA a playlist created before an xCloud Restart was still present afterwards.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Airsonic Advanced?

No. The template pins the image by tag and digest; new installations use the pinned build, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Because the 11.x line is unreleased, back up all volumes before moving to any other build. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 1 CPU core, 1024 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 419 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Airsonic Advanced?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Airsonic Advanced project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Airsonic Advanced project.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.