Best Self-hosted Music & Audio Streaming tools in 2026

Audioserve is a minimalist Rust server for streaming audiobooks and other audio files from folders, with a web PWA client, playlists, search, and optional transcoding.

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Plex+8

PinePods is a self-hosted podcast management server with multi-user support, gPodder sync, smart playlists, and apps for web, mobile, desktop, and CLI.

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Spotify+2

Open-source karaoke party system where guests queue songs from their phone while a browser-based player runs the room, supporting MP3+G and MP4.

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KaraFun+2

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 requir...

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MediaMonkey+5

Self-hosted ListenBrainz-compatible scrobbler and listening-history visualizer with import and relay support for other scrobblers.

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Last.fm+3

Open-source web music player that builds a library from YouTube/SoundCloud sources, with Spotify playlist import, themes, lyrics, and multi-device syncing.

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Spotify+9

Self-hosted audiobook manager that searches, downloads, tracks, and organizes audiobooks from torrents and Usenet with rich metadata and a responsive web UI.

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Plex+3

Web app that recommends artists based on a Lidarr library, using Last.fm for discovery and optionally adding recommended artists to Lidarr.

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Last.fm+3

Lightweight, customizable Discord music bot in Python. Supports YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, Twitch, Lavalink playback, playlists, lyrics, slash commands and Docker.

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FredBoat+2

Open-source web app to view and play guitar and bass tabs. Sync tabs with audio or YouTube, supports Guitar Pro and MusicXML formats, includes MIDI synth and mobile-frien...

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Spotify+14

Replicates and keeps Spotify playlists synced to a Jellyfin server, matching local tracks, downloading missing tracks via SpotDL, and offering Lidarr integration.

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Spotify

Generate a yearly listening report from your Jellyfin music server with client-side processing, privacy-first data handling, and Docker or static hosting options.

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Spotify+3

Web app that uses your Lidarr library and Last.fm to surface similar artists, supports AI-driven prompts, real-time UI, and pushes additions back to Lidarr.

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Last.fm+1

Automates finding and downloading missing albums for Lidarr by searching online sources via yt-dlp, with scheduling, match thresholds, and optional direct import into Lid...

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Lidarr

Supysonic is a Python implementation of the Subsonic API for serving, browsing and streaming personal music libraries with transcoding, playlists and scrobbling.

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Plex+7

Modern, customizable lofi web player built with Next.js and TypeScript; mixes YouTube streams with ambient sound effects, persistent local channels, and theme support.

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A Soft Murmur+5

Modern web app to browse Jellyfin music libraries, track artist releases via MusicBrainz, and send optional Discord webhook notifications.

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Stats for Spotify+3

Downloads music from YouTube and other providers, converts to high-quality MP3 with cover art, and uploads to WebDAV-compatible cloud storage like Nextcloud. Dockerized.

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4K Video Downloader+8

Hyperpipe is a privacy-respecting alternative frontend for YouTube Music, built on the InnerTube API, offering a web player UI without relying on Google’s official site.

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Spotify+4

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...

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Plex+12

Emby is a personal media server that organizes and streams your movies, TV, music, photos, and home videos to apps, browsers, smart TVs, and DLNA clients.

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Plex+15

Self-hosted music download manager that fetches Spotify content and falls back to Deezer for lossless sources; FastAPI backend, Celery tasks and Redis caching.

Plex Media Server lets you organize, stream, and access your personal movies, TV, music, and photos across devices, with rich metadata and client apps.

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Emby Premiere (Emby Media Server Cloud Features)+6

Self-hosted collaborative music room app with DJ queues, real-time chat, and YouTube/SoundCloud-style playback for shared listening sessions.

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Turntable.fm+3

Self-hosted, federated audio platform to upload, organize, stream, and share music and podcasts across instances via ActivityPub.

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SoundCloud+17

u-wave is a self-hosted social music room with DJ-style queueing, chat, and browser-based playback for listening together in real time.

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Plug.dj+3