Self-hosted projects tagged “Media Library”

Immich is an open-source platform for organizing, backing up, and streaming photos and videos with web and mobile clients, searchable metadata, face clustering, and S3-compatible storage.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Photos+14

Jellyfin is a free, self-hosted media server to organize, manage, and stream movies, TV, music, and photos to web, mobile, and TV clients.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Plex+19

Self-hosted music streaming server with a modern web UI, Subsonic-compatible API, multi-user support, and on-the-fly transcoding for large libraries.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+13

Open-source web music server that streams personal music collections via a modern web UI and Subsonic-compatible APIs; supports large libraries and on-the-fly transcoding.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+13

Kodi is an open source media center for organizing and playing local and networked video, music, and photos with a TV-friendly interface and add-on ecosystem.

Actively maintained

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Microsoft Windows Media Player+7

Self-hosted web app to browse, read, download, and manage eBooks from an existing Calibre library, with OPDS catalogs, user permissions, and device sync options.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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BookFusion+4

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

MITActively maintained

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Plex+12

A lightweight web interface for yt-dlp (youtube-dl fork) that manages queued downloads, playlists, and filename templates via Docker or local Python/Angular setup.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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4K Video Downloader+10

Self-hosted web app for organizing, tagging, and streaming a private adult video and image library with metadata scraping, galleries, and markers.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+11

Open-source, self-hosted media request and discovery tool for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby with DVR integration and Radarr/Sonarr support.

Self-hosted ROM manager that scans, enriches, and organizes game collections, with metadata, artwork, tags, and optional in-browser playback.

Open-source self-hosted reading server providing EPUB/PDF/comics readers, OPDS feeds, rich metadata, user/role management, full-text search and a REST API.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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BookFusion+5

Photoview is a self-hosted photo gallery that scans your filesystem into albums, generates fast thumbnails, supports RAW/EXIF, and enables multi-user sharing links.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Photos+14

An enhanced Calibre-Web fork that automates eBook ingest, conversion, metadata/cover enforcement, backups, and device sync for a streamlined digital library workflow.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Amazon Kindle+7

Self-hosted YouTube media manager that automates downloads from channels and playlists using rules, storing files on disk for Plex/Jellyfin/Kodi or archiving.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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iTubeGo+2

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.

MITActively maintained

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Plex+12

Self-hosted distributed transcoding and remux automation for media libraries using FFmpeg or HandBrake, with health checks, scheduling, and plugin-based processing rules.

Actively maintained

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Encoding.com+2

Bazarr is a Sonarr/Radarr companion that automatically searches, downloads, and upgrades subtitles for your movies and TV shows based on per-title language preferences.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+1

Dim is a self-hosted media manager that indexes, organizes, and beautifies your media libraries with a modern web UI for browsing and playback.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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Plex+6

Ombi lets Plex, Emby and Jellyfin users request movies, TV shows and music, integrates with Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr and automates request delivery and notifications.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Ombi (Hosted)+2

Self-hosted photo gallery for organizations and individuals; supports large libraries, albums, plugins, themes, permissions and a developer API.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Piwigo Cloud+19

Open-source Nextcloud app for managing photos and videos with timeline, AI-based tagging, albums, map view, metadata editing, and on-demand HLS transcoding.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Photos+10

Fast, modern photo and video management for Nextcloud with timeline, albums, sharing, metadata editing, map view, and optional AI-based tagging integrations.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Photos+12

Kometa is a Python tool that automates Plex metadata, builds collections and playlists, and applies overlays using configuration files and third-party metadata sources.

MITActively maintained

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Plex+1

Modern self-hosted media management system to discover, organize, and automate TV shows and movies in a single interface, replacing parts of the Arr stack.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Ombi (Hosted)+4

Self-hosted music library manager that unifies local and streaming sources and streams to many player ecosystems with Home Assistant integration.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Sonos+12

CLI tool that orchestrates yt-dlp and FFmpeg with YAML presets to download, convert, tag, and organize media for Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi, Emby and music players.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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4K Video Downloader+6

ErsatzTV is an open-source media server that creates scheduled, EPG-driven IPTV-style channels from local libraries or Plex/Jellyfin/Emby, with hardware transcoding and M3U/XMLTV output.

ZlibActively maintained

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Channels DVR+1

TubeSync is a YouTube PVR that automatically indexes channels or playlists, downloads new videos, and updates Plex or Jellyfin with organized local media.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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iTubeGo+2

Self-hosted server for comics, manga, and digital books with a built-in web UI, OPDS catalog support, and a REST API for library browsing and reading.

MITActively maintained

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Comixology+7