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8 self-hosted MediaMonkey alternatives

MediaMonkey is a media library manager and player for organizing, tagging, syncing, converting and playing large music and video collections across Windows and mobile devices. Features include metadata lookup/editing, duplicate detection, file renaming, CD ripping and device/cloud sync.

Alternatives to MediaMonkey

Koel is a web-based personal music streaming server with a modern player UI, multi-user support, playlists, library management, and optional mobile apps.

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17.2k stars2.1k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Beets is a command-line music library manager that catalogs collections and automatically fixes tags using MusicBrainz, with a powerful plugin ecosystem.

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15.6k stars2.1k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Cross-platform terminal music player with library indexing and a built-in streaming server for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi.

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4.8k stars320 forksBSD-3-Clauselast commit Actively maintained

Open-source Ruby on Rails music streaming server that indexes a local music directory, provides web and mobile players, playlists, multi-user accounts, and Docker deployment.

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4.4k stars223 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Swing Music is a fast, self-hosted web music player and streaming server for your local audio files, with playlists, search, stats, and multi-user support.

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2k stars132 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Edit audio file metadata through a clean browser UI on headless servers, with bulk editing, smart suggestions, and album art management—no full music library stack required.

726 stars21 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Slowing down

Roon is a music library manager and multi-room audio player that combines local files with streaming services, offers rich metadata, and supports high-resolution playback to many endpoints.

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What replacing MediaMonkey actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 6 of 8 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, BSD-3-Clause, AGPL-3.0, GPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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