Self-hosted music requests, no Lidarr install needed: DroppedNeedle searches MusicBrainz, drives your own slskd or Usenet setup, and files only verified, tagged tracks in your library. Request a whole album or a single track, then retry or cancel from a dedicated requests page. The engine queries slskd, or SABnzbd with Newznab indexers or Prowlarr, and scores every candidate before anything downloads. Files must pass checks for readable tags, a sane duration, and an optional AcoustID fingerprint match. Close calls park for admin review. Failed requests are searched again until a verified copy arrives. Quality floors per format and storage caps keep the library tidy, and better copies replace old ones. The built-in player queues Jellyfin, Navidrome, Plex, local files, and YouTube previews with shuffle, a 10-band equalizer, and embedded lyrics. Prefer your own app? Symfonium, Finamp, Feishin, and other Subsonic or Jellyfin clients connect with revocable app passwords. Discovery rows draw on ListenBrainz and Last.fm history and global charts, and a weekly mix can queue up to five missing albums. Follow artists for new-release alerts, or add Ticketmaster or Skiddle keys for gig listings in cities you choose. Import Spotify playlists, or drag in a zip of music you bought. Admin, Trusted, and User roles decide whether a request starts at once or waits for approval. 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.

Discover, preview, and curate your personal music collection with Aurral, a self-hosted music discovery and library management server that turns listening history into automated playlists and album acquisitions. Connect your Last.fm, ListenBrainz, or Koito scrobble history to surface tailored artist recommendations, genre trends, upcoming releases, artist news, and nearby concert dates. Build scheduled rotating discovery flows that refresh automatically on your chosen cadence, or import existing playlists directly from Spotify, YouTube Music, Last.fm, and ListenBrainz. Preview tracks instantly in the browser before committing them to your permanent collection. Manage downloads through a built-in yt-dlp engine or route requests to slskd, SABnzbd, NZBGet, Prowlarr, deemix, and Lidarr with full queue, history, and upgrade controls. Stream your indexed library from the web player, connect Subsonic and OpenSubsonic apps such as Feishin or Music Assistant, and publish generated playlists straight to Navidrome, Plex, Plexamp, and Jellyfin. Multi-user profiles support granular permissions, custom discovery layouts, and single sign-on via OpenID Connect, Plex, Google, or reverse-proxy headers. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Spotify economics without the subscription or catalog gaps: Navidrome, the reference self-hosted music server, streams your own FLAC, MP3, and ALAC collection from a single Go binary with a React/Material UI web player. Its Subsonic/OpenSubsonic API compatibility is the superpower: 50+ existing clients work out of the box, from Symfonium and DSub on Android to Feishin and Sonixd on desktop, plus Android Auto, CarPlay, and Android TV apps. Transcoding is server-managed and FFmpeg-backed - FLAC direct-plays at home and downsamples to MP3, AAC, or Opus over mobile bandwidth, with the OpenSubsonic transcoding extension letting clients declare capabilities and receive per-track direct-play or transcode decisions automatically. Multi-user support gives every account its own play counts, favorites, ratings, and playlists, and multi-library support scopes different collections to different users. The feature list covers serious listening: Last.fm and ListenBrainz scrobbling, artist bios and images, embedded and external lyrics, audiobook bookmarks, saved play queues that resume on another device, internet radio, jukebox mode, and M3U playlist auto-import kept in sync with your folder. Resource usage is famously low - it runs happily on a Raspberry Pi and scales to six-figure track counts.

LMS is a self-hosted music server that streams your own library to any web browser or Subsonic-compatible player. Point it at a folder of tagged files and it builds a library that understands multi-valued genres and moods, composer, conductor, and producer credits, release types, and release groups that keep remasters beside the original. MusicBrainz identifiers settle duplicate artist and album names, and an artist information folder in Kodi NFO format adds biographies and portraits. Browse with filters like Electronic plus Relaxed, then switch on radio mode and the queue refills itself with similar tracks, chosen by audio similarity or by tags. Plays can be scrobbled to ListenBrainz and Last.fm, and loved tracks synchronize with ListenBrainz. Phone apps connect through the Subsonic and OpenSubsonic API with a personal API key, and transcoding trims bandwidth on slow connections. ReplayGain evens out loudness, podcasts and lyrics sit in the same interface, and an admin-only jukebox mode plays through the server's own audio output. Several libraries can live side by side, a .lmsignore file keeps unwanted folders out of scans, and logins can use the internal user database, PAM, or reverse-proxy SSO headers. 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.

Streaming personal music collections with neural discovery and intelligent playlist curation is what Kima accomplishes as a modern self-hosted audio server that replaces Spotify and Apple Music. Listeners organize their FLAC, MP3, and AAC audio files into responsive grid layouts that scale up to eight columns on ultra-wide displays while automatically fetching album covers, artist biographies, and synchronized line-by-line lyrics. The built-in Vibe System utilizes CLAP neural network audio embeddings to map an entire music collection across two-dimensional clusters and three-dimensional interactive galaxy views, enabling users to explore acoustic relationships or queue smooth sonic paths between distant tracks. Music fans can import playlists directly from Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube using deterministic ISRC matching, while automated Made For You mixes generate era-specific playlists, workout stations, and discovery queues based on individual listening habits. Integrated podcast search pulls subscriptions from iTunes with automatic episode tracking across devices, while native Audiobookshelf connectors synchronize spoken-word chapter positions and playback progress directly into the unified web player. OpenSubsonic API endpoints allow mobile users to stream libraries through native clients like Symfonium and DSub using scoped authentication tokens, while administrators manage multi-user accounts with time-based two-factor authentication. 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.

Swing Music transforms your personal audio collection into a private streaming platform with a responsive interface modeled after modern on-demand music apps. The server scans local directories, normalizes messy metadata tags, and categorizes tracks by version labels such as Deluxe, Remaster, or Live editions. Listeners can explore automated Daily Mixes compiled from real listening activity, browse folder hierarchies directly, or curate custom collections across related artists and releases. Audio playback combines intelligent silence detection with configurable cross-fade transitions to deliver seamless, uninterrupted listening across web browsers and mobile devices. Integrated Last.fm scrobbling keeps external listening statistics updated in real time, while personal playback history powers internal analytics and favorites. Multi-user account support enables family members to preserve separate playlists, favorites, and mix recommendations on a shared audio library. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GNU AGPLv3 licensed.

Whether your personal audio library spans ten thousand lossless FLAC albums or a sprawling hierarchy of studio recordings, Polaris streams your entire music collection to any browser or mobile device with instant responsiveness. You can browse cataloged tracks by album, artist, genre, or raw directory tree without waiting for sluggish page loads. Multi-value metadata indexing cleanly separates collaborations across artists, composers, record labels, and lyricists. A structured query bar filters songs using per-field search operators and boolean combinators. During playback, real-time audio waveform visualizations render signal peaks directly inside the scrubbing bar. Lossless and compressed formats play seamlessly, covering FLAC, MP3, MP4, M4B, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, Musepack, APE, WAV, and AIFF files. Each household listener gets an isolated account with private playlists, dark mode themes, and customizable color palettes. Administrators can edit mount points, user credentials, and dynamic DNS hooks either through the web settings panel or a plain-text configuration file. Mobile listeners can also connect from dedicated Android and iOS companion apps on the go. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

With 4,300+ GitHub stars and native mobile apps on three platforms, Black Candy transforms any VPS into a private Spotify-style streaming service for your personal music collection. The Ruby on Rails 7 backend with Hotwire Turbo and Stimulus delivers a responsive single-page-feeling web player supporting album browsing, artist views, playlists, favorites, and queue management without full page reloads. Point it at a media directory containing MP3, FLAC, OGG, AAC, or WAV files and Black Candy indexes metadata, fetches album artwork from Discogs API, and begins streaming immediately with on-the-fly transcoding that adapts bitrate to client bandwidth. Multi-user support gives each account independent playlists, favorites, and listening history while sharing the same music library — ideal for families or shared households. Native iOS, Android, and F-Droid apps maintained as separate repositories provide offline caching, background playback, and server discovery for mobile listening. The admin panel manages user accounts, configures media paths, and sets Discogs API tokens for automatic cover art retrieval. Deployment requires one Docker command — `docker run -p 80:80 ghcr.io/blackcandy-org/blackcandy:latest` — with persistent storage volumes for the SQLite database and media directory. For larger deployments, switch to PostgreSQL via environment variables with dedicated database URLs for ActionCable, SolidQueue, and SolidCache. 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 easiest music streaming server available" is mStream's own billing, and the claim holds up: a lightweight Node.js app that turns a folder of audio files into a private streaming service in minutes, no external database required. Its filesystem-based design is the clever part - the API mirrors your folder structure, so you can browse and play music immediately, before any library scan finishes, and your organization on disk is your organization in the app. It streams flac, mp3, wav, ogg, opus, aac, and m4a, which matters to the audiophile crowd: FLAC plays uncompressed, bit-perfect, with gapless playback for live albums and continuous mixes. The web player runs anywhere a browser does and packs personality - a Milkdrop-style visualizer (Butterchurn), playlist sharing via links, and drag-and-drop uploads straight through the file explorer. Native iOS and Android apps add the feature streaming subscriptions can't match: sync your collection to your phone for true offline playback of music you own. Multi-user support assigns separate directories and permissions per account. Resource usage is famously light - mStream is tested on multi-terabyte libraries and runs happily on a Raspberry Pi, so a small RepoCloud instance serves a lifetime's collection. GPL-licensed, with zero listening-habit telemetry.

A streaming-style music player for your own Navidrome, Jellyfin, or OpenSubsonic server, on the desktop or in a browser. Home leads with a featured carousel, genre shortcuts, most played, and newly added releases. Browse by album, artist, genre, folder, or radio station. Queue, lyrics, and visualizer panels can each sit in the player sidebar. Japanese lyrics can show furigana and romaji. Star ratings, favorite hearts, and scrobbling to your server come built in. Shape the sound with a parametric equalizer, a compressor, ReplayGain, and optional transcoding. Auto DJ tops up a dwindling queue with songs or whole albums. Navidrome smart playlists get a visual rule editor with match-all or match-any groups. Choose from 32 built-in themes and 39 interface languages. The catch: Feishin is only the player, so the music server stays separate. In a browser it plays through the web player backend, while the desktop app adds MPV and built-in lyrics fetching. Docker environment variables can preset and lock the server, so guests only type a username and password. 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 a music library is full of wrong tags, missing covers, and blank ratings, Tagr lets you fix the whole collection from any browser, on desktop or phone. Three roles divide the work on your own server. Admins mount a music folder, press scan, and get a searchable table of every track, with sortable and filterable columns, more than 40 editable fields, and room for custom tags. Taggers make the changes: edit fields inline, swap album art, and match one song or a whole selection against MusicBrainz, ticking which fields to overwrite. Mistakes are cheap, because every edit is stored in a persistent change history with a revert action, viewable per song or per folder. Rule-based smart playlists, such as every track with an empty comment, show what still needs attention. Listeners browse and play without edit rights, using the waveform player, a Recently played view, and optional ListenBrainz scrobbling that each person connects to their own account. Supported formats include MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, OGG, M4A, M4B, WMA, AIFF, and Opus, with changes written straight back into the files. Swipe-friendly panels, an installable PWA, and five interface languages make the phone a comfortable place to work. 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.

Metadata Remote is a browser-based audio tag editor designed specifically for headless music servers, enabling collectors to fix ID3 tags, embed high-resolution cover art, and match releases against MusicBrainz without moving files off their NAS. Navidrome, Jellyfin, and Plex administrators can browse mounted directories directly from any browser, inspect standard and extended metadata fields, and apply single-file or bulk folder-wide updates in one click. Clicking an empty or incomplete field activates the smart inference engine, which analyzes filenames, directory hierarchy, and sibling tracks alongside live MusicBrainz queries to present candidate values ranked by confidence percentage, including specialized matching rules for classical works, multi-artist compilations, and live bootlegs. Built-in audio streaming lets you audition MP3, FLAC, OGG, OPUS, M4A, M4B, WMA, WAV, and WavPack files inside the interface to verify mysterious tracks before renaming files or folders inline. A dedicated long-form text editor automatically opens for lyrics and liner notes exceeding 100 characters, while the album art manager previews image dimensions, bulk-embeds covers across entire albums, and repairs corrupted artwork headers automatically. Every single-track edit, custom field creation, and batch folder operation is tracked in a 1,000-step undo and redo history with full keyboard-only navigation. 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.

Archiving YouTube channels and playlists into a local media server becomes effortless with Pinchflat, a self-hosted media manager that automates downloading, naming, and organizing online video and audio libraries on disk. Instead of manually copying links into command-line downloaders, you define reusable Media Profiles with presets tailored for Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi, or raw archival storage, and then attach any number of YouTube channels or playlists as monitored sources. Fast Indexing polls RSS feeds or the YouTube API to detect newly published uploads within minutes while falling back to scheduled full scans so back-catalog videos are never missed. Granular source rules let you include or exclude YouTube Shorts and livestreams, filter titles by keyword patterns, enforce earliest upload cutoff dates, and set automatic retention windows that prune older files after a configured number of days. Built-in SponsorBlock integration marks or strips sponsor segments and embeds chapters alongside thumbnails, subtitles, and NFO metadata files so episodes appear cleanly inside your home theater library. You can also schedule Delayed Redownloads a few days after initial publication to capture higher-bitrate transcodes or crowd-sourced SponsorBlock tags, supply browser cookies for private playlists, and subscribe to any archived source in mobile podcast players through generated RSS feeds. 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.

Archiving online videos, creator channels, and curated playlists directly into a personal Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby library becomes effortless with HomeTube, a self-hosted web downloader supporting more than 1,800 streaming platforms. Users paste a single video or playlist URL into the web interface, where an intelligent format analyzer evaluates available codecs and automatically selects the highest resolution video and audio streams such as 4K AV1 or VP9 paired with Opus audio. Built-in SponsorBlock integration detects crowd-sourced sponsor segments, intros, outros, and self-promotions during the download process so saved videos play back completely ad-free without manual editing. When synchronizing playlists, the engine tracks entries by unique video ID rather than mutable titles, downloads only newly added items, preserves upstream ordering with customizable filename templates, and optionally moves removed videos into an archive folder. A visual processing panel lets operators trim specific time ranges with keyframe or frame-precise cutting, embed primary and secondary subtitle tracks alongside chapter markers, and create nested destination directories directly from the browser. Browser cookie file support unlocks age-restricted or member-only streams, while custom yt-dlp argument pass-through accommodates proxy routing and filesize caps. Once processing finishes, completed files move into watched media folders and can trigger an immediate Jellyfin library rescan via API key. 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.

For video enthusiasts and media archivers who want complete ownership over their online video subscriptions, MyTube provides a self-hosted video downloader, library organizer, and streaming portal. Paste a single link or queue a batch of URLs from YouTube, Bilibili, Twitch, MissAV, and over one thousand yt-dlp compatible sites to archive videos directly to your disk. Subscribe to your favorite creators so new uploads download automatically in the background alongside their default language subtitles. Local video uploads automatically generate thumbnails and pull movie or television posters, cast details, release years, and ratings from TMDB. Curate custom collections, filter your catalog by tags or authors, and generate private RSS feed links for external podcast and feed readers. Built-in playback tools include keyboard shortcuts, cinema mode, Canvas-based in-car playback, and optional real-time audio translation with live subtitles via Google Gemini. You can sync finished recordings to Alist or OpenList cloud storage, trigger custom shell scripts on task completion, and receive instant Telegram bot alerts when downloads finish or fail. Share your library safely using read-only visitor accounts while protecting admin controls with WebAuthn passkeys or a 3x3 gesture lock. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Across peer-to-peer music and file-sharing communities, slskd brings the Soulseek network into any modern web browser through a self-hosted client-server daemon that runs continuously without a desktop GUI. Users can run multiple concurrent network searches, filter results by audio bitrate, file extension, free upload slots, or transfer speed, and queue entire album folders for download in two clicks. The real-time transfer monitor groups active downloads and uploads by peer and directory, allowing you to inspect your live queue position, retry stalled files, or clear completed batches at a glance. For library contributors, the share manager indexes local directories with custom regex exclusion rules and configurable user groups that enforce per-group upload slot allocations, bandwidth caps, and automated leecher blacklists. Built-in social tools let you browse remote user directory trees, auto-join public Soulseek chat rooms on startup, and exchange private messages directly inside the web interface. Multi-server operators can even link a central controller to remote relay agents to distribute file sharing and search workloads across separate machines. When transfers finish or system state changes, event-driven integrations can fire custom HTTP webhooks, execute post-processing shell scripts, upload files via FTP, or expose Prometheus metrics and CIDR-restricted REST API endpoints for external media managers. 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.