Koel

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What is Koel Koel is licensed under the MIT License and developed primarily by Phan An, who started the project in December 2015 after running out of disk space for his MP3 collection. The codebase is a Laravel backend serving a Vue.js client, with FFmpeg invoked for transcoding lossless and exotic formats. The repository at github.com/koel/koel carries 17.1k GitHub stars, 2.1k forks, and 97 contributors as visible on the repo page in 2026 — making it the most-starred open-source personal music server on GitHub by a clear margin The official Docker image at phanan/koel shows 100K+ pulls on Doc

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