Local-first ownership
Your albums, editions and media live on storage you control.
INDEPENDENT MUSIC SOFTWARE
Considering a Roon alternative?
If you want a self-hosted music server focused on your own collection, original audio equipment and independent development, Brimstone Core is worth exploring.
THE PLATFORM
What makes Brimstone different?
Brimstone is its own project, not a fork or reverse-engineered copy of a commercial music player.
Legacy receiver focus
Our native Meridian V3 engine is being tested on original devices including the MS200.
Open choice of hardware
A Debian-based Core aims to reuse existing computers and specialist receivers.
THE PLATFORM
Compare the right things.
Brimstone is still in an R1 release-candidate phase. We do not claim complete feature parity, licensing equivalence or universal interoperability with Roon.
REAL PRODUCT
See the actual interface.
View the music catalogue, queue management, native playback, streaming providers and Control screens from real development builds.
Browse screenshots
EVIDENCE, NOT HYPE
Read the Meridian engineering story.
We have documented a numerical track-transition fault in our own V3 implementation and its resulting playback improvement. We are not claiming the same defect exists in Roon.
Read the V3 updateFrom Roon music servers to the wider music world.
Explore Roon’s music server world alongside independent Core, Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL, Qobuz, Meridian playback and modern music platforms.