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.
Music streaming solution that works.
Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.
Your Personal Streaming Service
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
Audio synthesis, processing, & analysis platform for iOS, macOS and tvOS
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.
Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API
A fully standalone Spotify client for the terminal. Native streaming included, no daemon required.
Python library for audio and music analysis
The easiest music streaming server available
Reads an audio file and displays the waveform
LibreTime: Radio Broadcast & Automation Platform
A sleek and efficient podcast downloader.
Audio metadata library
A modern, configurable, terminal based MPD Client with album art support via various terminal image protocols
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
Looks and smells like Sonarr but made for music.
Cross-platform audio I/O library in pure Rust
Frontier CoreML audio models in your apps, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice activity detection, and speaker diarization. In Swift, powered by SOTA open source.
A Spotify player in the terminal with full feature parity
MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.
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.