Self-hosted music streaming: open-source Spotify alternatives
Spotify pays artists fractions of a cent per stream and locks your library into their app. Self-hosted Navidrome, Funkwhale, and Jellyfin let you stream your own collection to phones with the same UX. The picks ranked by health and self-hosting cost.
The 24 picks, ranked by health
Health score is a 6-dimension composite. See methodology.
Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.
Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.
Music streaming solution that works.
Python library for audio and music analysis
Reads an audio file and displays the waveform
Your Personal Streaming Service
Audio synthesis, processing, & analysis platform for iOS, macOS and tvOS
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
SRS is a simple, high-efficiency, real-time media server supporting RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, HTTP-TS, SRT, MPEG-DASH, and GB28181, with codec support for H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9, AAC, Opus, and G.711.
A fully standalone Spotify client for the terminal. Native streaming included, no daemon required.
Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API
MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.
The easiest music streaming server available
LibreTime: Radio Broadcast & Automation Platform
A sleek and efficient podcast downloader.
Looks and smells like Sonarr but made for music.
music streaming server / free-software subsonic server API implementation
Self-hosted Music Server. Focused on metadata integration & UI
Scrobble plays from multiple sources to multiple clients
Audio metadata library
Open source music streaming app! Available for both desktop & mobile!
A modern, configurable, terminal based MPD Client with album art support via various terminal image protocols
A Spotify player in the terminal with full feature parity
Cross-platform audio I/O library in pure Rust
Specifically replacing
These categories on ossreplace cover the SaaS in this space.
Ready to self-host?
Most operators land on transformers (top health) and run it on hetzner for around $4.13/mo.