Funkwhale is a web based music server. It is similar in terms of goals and feature set to various existing projects, such as `Sonerezh <https://www.sonerezh.bzh/>`_ or `Airsonic <https://airsonic.github.io/>`_.
However, Funkwhale is better-suited for small to medium communities and was designed to be not only a music server and player, but also a place to socialize around music and discover new content. While some of these features are not currently implemented, our roadmap includes:
At the moment, you can feed your existing music library to the server either by uploading it or by using :ref:`in-place-import` from a server-side directory. Assuming the files have the correct tags defined, they will be imported seamlessly.
In order to keep your library clean, browsable, and well-stocked with relevant data about artists, albums and tracks, we fetch a lot of metadata from the `MusicBrainz project <http://musicbrainz.org/>`_.
While the main interface to the server and API is the bundled front-end, the project itself is agnostic in the way you connect to it. Therefore, desktop clients or apps could be developped and could implement the same (or even more) features as the bundled frontend.