Black Candy by blackcandy-org

A self hosted music streaming server

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Verdict 57/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 1/5 setup difficulty Last release 11 months ago

Self-host Black Candy on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
57 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
1 /5
One-click deploy
GitHub stars
4.2k
208 forks

About Black Candy

From the project's README at github.com/blackcandy-org/blackcandy. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

[](https://github.com/blackcandy-org/blackcandy/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [](https://coveralls.io/github/blackcandy-org/blackcandy?branch=master)

Black Candy is a self-hosted music streaming server, your personal music center. Try The Demo

Please visit and use demo user (email: [email protected], password: foobar) to log in. And feel free to try it.

> [!NOTE] > This demo user does not have administrator privileges. So you cannot experience all the features in Black Candy. And all music in the demo are from Free Music Archive. You can check their licenses. Installation

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
51
maturity
80
community
63
security
70
sustainability
53
adoption
31

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 4.2k github.com/blackcandy-org/blackcandy
GitHub forks 208 github.com/blackcandy-org/blackcandy

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age8.2 yearssince Feb 2018
Last commit10 days agoApr 27, 2026
Releases shipped10last: 11 months ago

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

Ready to self-host Black Candy?

Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.

Data last refreshed May 7, 2026.

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