AzuraCast is a solution for running internet radio stations, packaging the entire broadcast stack into a single Docker installation that gets you on air in minutes. Built on PHP with a Vue.js frontend, it uses Liquidsoap as the AutoDJ engine to compile media from playlists, live DJ inputs, and scheduled programming into composited output streams, then broadcasts via Icecast-KH, SHOUTcast 2 DNAS, or Rocket Streaming Audio Server to thousands of concurrent listeners. The media library supports drag-and-drop uploads with automatic metadata extraction, while playlist management handles sequential, random, weighted, and time-scheduled rotations. Live DJ accounts let remote broadcasters connect via BUTT, Mixxx, or any Icecast-compatible software, with automatic crossfade transitions between AutoDJ and live input. The built-in Web DJ tool enables broadcasting directly from the browser without additional software. Each station includes public-facing player pages with now-playing metadata, album art, song history, and embeddable widgets for external websites. The listener request system lets audiences queue songs through the public interface. Multi-station administration hosts unlimited stations on a single server with individual user accounts and granular role-based permissions. Comprehensive analytics track listener counts, geographic distribution, unique listeners, and listening duration with exportable reports. HLS streaming delivers adaptive bitrate broadcasts for mobile compatibility. LADSPA audio plugins enable professional equalization and processing in the stream pipeline. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Somewhere in your house, a presenter is introducing the next record, and that presenter is a language model running on your own server. Deadair builds you a real radio station rather than another playlist: it picks records from your Navidrome, Jellyfin, Emby, or Plex library, or from Spotify, YouTube Music, Pandora, and Apple Music, writes what the host says between songs, speaks it in that host's own voice, and broadcasts the result as one shared live stream over Icecast, with no skip button and the same show for every listener. From the console you steer it in plain sentences: tell it "rap like Snoop Dogg" and the next hours programme themselves to that brief, or ask why the record on air was chosen and get an answer. The forward lineup runs several hours deep, visible and editable, and nothing reaches air until its audio is already on the machine, so the stream never stutters waiting on a download. Words and voice are separate choices, swapped live in Settings: break-writing can run on a hosted model while a local Kokoro or Chatterbox voice reads it, and a station with no model at all still talks. Twenty-seven bundled plugins cover music sources, metadata, news, weather, and speech, and third-party plugins install from the console. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Airstation turns your music folder into a radio station where every listener hears the same second of the same song at the same time. From the studio panel you upload tracks once, and they stay in a permanent library you can search and sort by date added, name, or duration. Build the broadcast queue by dragging tracks into order, reshuffle it whenever the mood changes, let it cycle endlessly, shuffle it randomly, or pause the station entirely when the day is done. Playlists group tracks for recurring shows, and the playback history shows listeners what has already aired. Anyone with the link opens the player page and is listening within seconds, no account and no app install, while a live counter tells you how many people are tuned in right now. The player page itself can be retitled to match your station's name. Friends get a shared listening moment instead of another playlist link, communities get a station that plays their own rotation around the clock, and collectors get to hear their library the way radio always felt: live, shared, and slightly out of your control once it starts. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Every podcast you publish through Castopod automatically becomes a Fediverse social account that Mastodon, Pleroma, and Pixelfed users can follow, boost, and comment on from their own timelines. This ActivityPub integration transforms podcast distribution from a one-way broadcast into a two-way conversation where listeners interact with episodes through the social platforms they already use. Beyond federation, the platform manages the complete lifecycle: upload an episode, and auto-generated RSS feeds distribute it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, Podcast Addict, and every compatible directory. IABv2-compliant analytics measure downloads, geographic distribution, and listening apps while maintaining GDPR, CCPA, and LGPD compliance through anonymized data collection. Podcasting 2.0 namespace support unlocks chapters with images, SRT/VTT transcripts, location tags, and person credits that modern podcast apps surface to listeners. Video episodes publish alongside audio, and auto-generated clips feed social media sharing workflows. Monetization tools span Value4Value micropayments, premium subscriptions, funding links, and cookieless advertising. Multi-user roles operate per-podcast: contributors, editors, and admins each work within defined permission boundaries. The PHP application runs behind nginx with MariaDB and Redis on a RepoCloud VPS with dedicated CPU, RAM, and SSD. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Point OBS or a hardware encoder at Restreamer's built-in RTMP or SRT ingest and it serves your website while rebroadcasting to YouTube Live, Twitch, Facebook, Vimeo, TikTok, LinkedIn, PeerTube, and anything else that accepts RTMP, SRT, or HLS - a complete self-hosted live-streaming server from datarhei. That multistreaming normally costs a monthly Restream.io subscription; here it's one FFmpeg process per destination on your own hardware. The web UI is genuinely approachable, with a wizard that walks beginners through camera setup, while professionals get the full surface: multiple audio/video inputs (USB, RTSP network cameras, virtual devices), codec and processing settings, separate audio muxing, and hardware acceleration via Nvidia CUDA, Intel VAAPI, or Raspberry Pi. Serving your own audience is first-class - a built-in Video.js player embeds in your site, a ready-made publication website streams without any embedding work, HLS chunk sizes are tunable, and automatic Let's Encrypt handles HTTPS. Viewer and bandwidth monitoring with limits keeps traffic costs predictable, and it's GDPR-friendly: no third-party provider, no audience data stored. A fully Swagger-documented REST API drives automation. SRT support keeps latency under a second.

Twitch and YouTube Live, replaced by infrastructure you control: Owncast is a self-hosted live streaming and chat server. Point OBS, Streamlabs, or any RTMP-capable broadcaster at the server's ingest port, and Owncast transcodes the feed with FFmpeg into HLS with multiple quality variants, playing it in a built-in web page with a real-time chat beside it. Chat supports anonymous participation, custom emotes, and moderation tools - message removal, user bans and suspensions - with optional authentication via IndieAuth or a Fediverse account. ActivityPub integration puts the stream on the Fediverse: viewers on Mastodon and compatible services can follow a channel and get notified the moment it goes live. Video delivery can come straight off the server or offload HLS segments to S3-compatible object storage so a modest VPS handles thousands of concurrent viewers while only managing ingest and chat. The backend is a single Go binary with a React frontend - no accounts platform, no database server, no dependency stack - and the player embeds in any website. MIT-licensed, with roughly 9k GitHub stars, zero platform fees, and no algorithm or takedown policy between you and your audience.

Viewers arrive on browsers, phones, and desktop players, and SRS meets each of them with the right protocol from a single published stream. A broadcaster pushing RTMP can reach browser viewers through WebRTC with sub-second latency, phone apps through HLS, and desktop players through HTTP-FLV, all from the same live source without running parallel encoders. WHIP endpoints accept WebRTC ingest from browser studios and tools like OBS, while WHEP serves WebRTC playback, so an entire publish-to-viewer path can stay on modern web protocols. Operators shape each channel with virtual hosts, authenticate publishers and players through HTTP hooks that consult your own backend, and record live streams to disk as DVR archives for replay. Forwarding republishes a stream to YouTube, Facebook, or another SRS instance, and origin clustering lets edge servers pull from a central origin so one ingest feeds viewers in several regions. The built-in HTTP API reports streams, clients, and server health for monitoring, and GB28181 support ingests surveillance camera networks alongside creator broadcasts. Configuration lives in a single reloadable file, so changing a vhost or enabling HLS rarely means restarting the listeners your audience is attached to. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

MediaMTX sits between cameras and viewers as a self-hosted live media server, taking in video and audio streams over one protocol and handing them back out over another, so one IP camera feed can end up playing in a browser, a phone app, and a recording archive simultaneously. Publish with FFmpeg, GStreamer, OBS Studio, a browser, or a Raspberry Pi camera over RTSP, RTMP, SRT, WebRTC, Media-over-QUIC, HLS, MPEG-TS, or RTP, and read it back on any other protocol without a transcoding pipeline. Run dozens of camera feeds side by side, each on its own path, and keep every path available even while its publisher is offline. Record everything to disk in fMP4 or MPEG-TS as it streams, then play recordings back later through the same server instead of shipping files around. Authenticate publishers and viewers with built-in users, an external HTTP check, or JWT, and use the control API plus Prometheus metrics to wire the server into the rest of your monitoring stack. Forward streams to other servers, proxy cameras behind NAT, and fire hook commands whenever a client connects, publishes, or disconnects, so a doorbell camera can trigger a snapshot or an alert as it starts streaming. Reload the configuration while clients stay connected, and tune everything from the same mediamtx.yml file or environment variables, with no database or runtime dependencies to babysit. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Feed one camera, encoder, or file into MistServer and it republishes the same media in the formats your audience actually uses: HLS for phones, DASH for browsers, WebRTC for sub second playback, and RTMP or SRT for the next service in the chain. Publish from OBS over RTMP, SRT, or WHIP, then hand viewers a Meta Player embed that picks a working protocol on its own. Records run straight to disk for later on demand viewing, and push support relays finished streams to external platforms. Processes can repackage, encode, compose, or analyze media between ingest and delivery. A JSON API on the controller port covers configuration and status, stream keys authenticate incoming publishers, and triggers fire your own endpoints on stream events. Operational metrics export to Prometheus for retention and alerting. Access control rules and HTTPS support protect interfaces and media endpoints. File libraries become on demand catalogs with the same delivery rules as live channels. Every input, output, and process ships as a separate small binary, so an installation keeps only the protocol modules it actually serves, and analysers inspect media properties when a stream misbehaves. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Unlicense licensed.

Point OBS at it, and the same live stream comes out in whatever protocol each viewer needs. Xiu is an open-source live media server that accepts publishing over RTMP, RTSP, and WebRTC WHIP, then redistributes every stream as RTMP, RTSP, HTTP-FLV, HLS, or low-latency WebRTC WHEP playback. Cameras and encoders pushing H.264, H.265, or AAC over TCP or UDP become browser-friendly HLS and HTTP-FLV without a separate transcoding tier, and GOP caching gets late joiners to a keyframe fast. Static push and pull relaying chains servers together: one origin ingests, regional nodes pull, and audiences play from the node nearest them; RTMP clustering covers larger fan-outs. Every live stream can also be recorded straight to HLS files, giving you an instant archive of broadcasts, lessons, and town halls. Token authentication guards publishing and playback, HTTP callbacks report stream start and stop events to your backend, and an HTTP API answers stream information queries for your own dashboards and automation. Operators shape ports, protocols, relays, and recording in one configuration file or with command-line flags, running a single binary that stays out of the way until the audience arrives. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

PinePods delivers a centralized, self-hosted podcast ecosystem that liberates personal listening histories, audio files, and show subscriptions from commercial streaming walled gardens. Users can discover new shows through built-in search connectors across Podcast Index, iTunes, and YouTube, streaming audio and video episodes with variable playback speed, chapter markers, and synchronized transcripts. A persistent queue and custom playlist builder keep media sequences orderly across web browsers, desktop installations, and mobile clients with native CarPlay and Android Auto support. Built-in gPodder server synchronization enables seamless cross-device progress tracking with third-party podcast apps like AntennaPod. Automatic episode downloader engines monitor subscribed feeds, archiving new releases to local server storage according to customizable retention rules and storage quotas. Multi-user authentication secures household access through OIDC single sign-on and two-factor TOTP verification, while an integrated terminal client lets command-line enthusiasts manage queues directly over SSH. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Podcast enthusiasts and homelab archivers automate digital episode preservation and stream personal audio feeds using PodFetch, an open-source self-hosted podcast manager that combines scheduled RSS downloads, Podcasting 2.0 transcript indexing, and browser playback into a modern listening platform. Listeners can subscribe to international podcast channels through direct feed URLs, Apple Podcasts directory searches, or bulk OPML subscription imports, configuring background polling timers to download new releases automatically upon publication. The integrated audio player supports variable speed playback, episode bookmarks, listening histories, and fullscreen visualization modes directly inside responsive desktop and mobile browser sessions. Advanced search capabilities leverage Podcasting 2.0 synchronized transcripts and automated speech-to-text generation via OpenAI-compatible Whisper APIs, allowing collectors to run full-text keyword searches across every spoken phrase in their audio archive. Built-in GPodder API synchronization maintains subscription lists and playback positions across popular smartphone apps like AntennaPod and native companion clients without relying on commercial cloud accounts. Server operators can assign multi-user accounts with private favorites lists, export customized RSS aggregation streams, and route storage paths between fast solid-state drives and large secondary mechanical hard disks. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

To listen to your favorite YouTube channels, video playlists, and Bilibili creators during a commute without keeping a browser tab open, PigeonPod converts video subscriptions into private, standard podcast RSS feeds for any podcast player. Paste a channel URL, playlist link, or single video address to preview uploads and generate a protected feed for Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or AntennaPod. You can select audio-only or video output, customize bitrates and formats, and generate Podcasting 2.0 chapter markers for topic scrubbing. Scheduled background sync jobs fetch new releases automatically while on-demand history backfill queues older catalog episodes in bulk. Per-feed keyword rules, duration thresholds, and retention limits keep storage clean by filtering out shorts or marathon livestreams. Upload YouTube or Bilibili cookies for member-only streams, route traffic through custom proxies, and update the yt-dlp engine directly inside the web dashboard. A built-in web player, one-click public episode share pages, and OPML export let you stream in the browser or migrate subscriptions. Media files store on local disk or S3-compatible buckets such as Cloudflare R2 and MinIO, accompanied by YouTube API quota monitors and failure alerts. Multi-user role permissions support shared accounts across eight interface languages. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

When shuffle algorithms start feeling sterile, Subwave transforms your self-hosted Navidrome or Subsonic music library into a live 24/7 personal internet radio station hosted by AI DJ personas. Every listener tunes into a single shared Icecast broadcast simultaneously. Curated tracks play alongside spoken station idents, local weather reports, news briefings, time checks, and track introductions. Want to hear something specific? Listeners submit plain-language song or mood requests directly from the web player, native mobile and desktop apps, or an MCP client, and the on-air DJ weaves those selections into the rotation. Operators staff up to 24 distinct DJ personas with guest co-hosts, programme a 24x7 weekly show grid with multi-hour episode arcs, and customize between-track skills from the browser admin console. Acoustic analysis measures BPM, musical key, loudness, vocal ranges, and track endings so crossfades and voice ducking sound like a studio broadcast across MP3, Opus, AAC, and lossless FLAC streams. An interactive Library Observatory maps every analyzed track by genre and energy. Runtime-swappable LLM providers (Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenRouter) and six local or cloud TTS engines keep voices flexible. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

The fediverse's answer to YouTube comes from French non-profit Framasoft: PeerTube is a TypeScript/Angular video platform where hundreds of independently operated instances federate over ActivityPub into one network. Videos you publish are discoverable across the whole video fediverse, and viewers can follow your channels from Mastodon or any ActivityPub platform - or plain RSS - without needing an account on your instance. The namesake innovation attacks video hosting's core cost problem: alongside HLS delivery, an optional WebRTC-based P2P layer lets concurrent viewers' browsers share video segments with each other, so a video going viral distributes its own bandwidth demand instead of crushing your server; instance redundancy extends this by letting friendly instances cache each other's videos. Livestreaming is first-class - stream via OBS or any RTMP software, host permanent streams, enable replays, and interact through live chat. Creators get channels, playlists, analytics, built-in video editing (trim, watermark), and an embeddable player for any website. There are no ads, no data mining, and no recommendation algorithm engineered for watch-time - the project's explicit design stance. Admins control federation policy, P2P settings, and theming; a plugin system extends the rest. AGPL-licensed, 300+ contributors, in active development since 2015.