Swing Music

Swing Music is a self-hosted music streaming server and web player for organizing and listening to your local audio files in a modern browser-based UI. It focuses on a clean library experience, discovery features, and fast playback without requiring a bundled desktop app.

Key Features

• Browser-based music player UI for listening from any device on your network
• Library management with metadata normalization and duplicate track handling
• Album versioning (for example Deluxe or Remaster) to group releases consistently
• Discovery helpers like related artists and related albums
• Folder-based browsing for libraries organized by directories
• Playlist management, collections, lyrics view, and listening statistics
• Daily mixes generated from listening activity
• Multi-user support and optional Last.fm scrobbling
• Silence detection support (requires FFmpeg)

Use Cases

• Build a private “bring your own music” streaming server for a home NAS library
• Provide a multi-user household music library with personal stats and playlists
• Stream your local music to a browser (and optionally an Android client)

Limitations and Considerations

• Some features (such as silence detection) require external dependencies like FFmpeg
• Platform support may vary by release (for example macOS availability may depend on version)

Swing Music is a strong option if you want a lightweight, good-looking web player for your own collection while keeping control of your files. It’s designed to be simple to run via binaries or containers and pleasant to use day to day.