Self-hosted projects tagged “Media”

Web app for synchronized group watching: per-channel playlists, real-time chat, moderation, and multi-source media playback.

Slowing down

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Watch2Gether

WatchState is a self-hosted service that synchronizes watch progress and play state between Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby, with backups, webhooks, and parity checks.

MITActively maintained

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Plex+1

Open-source, self-hosted watched list to track movies, TV series, anime, and optionally video games, with accounts, ratings, discovery, and personal stats.

Mylar3 is an automated comic book (CBR/CBZ) downloader and post-processor for NZB and torrent clients, with watchlists, pull lists, and metadata tagging.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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CLZ Comics (Collectorz)+1

Self-hosted web application that discovers and automatically downloads TV shows and movies using Jackett for search and Transmission for torrent downloading, with optional VPN support.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Ombi (Hosted)

Self-hosted scrobbling hub that collects plays from many music sources and forwards them to services like Maloja, Last.fm, and ListenBrainz.

MITActively maintained

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Last.fm+2

Convos is a multiuser web IRC client with a built-in persistent bouncer, chat history, theming, rich formatting, and optional video chat.

Artistic-2.0Actively maintained

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IRCCloud+3

LLM-driven movie and TV recommendation web app that uses Sonarr/Radarr libraries and Plex/Jellyfin watch history to generate personalized suggestions.

MITSlowing down

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ChatGPT+9

Agregarr manages Plex Collections and hubs by syncing lists and stats from multiple sources, reordering and scheduling visibility, and optionally adding missing media via Radarr/Sonarr/Overseerr.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+6

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

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Spotify+2

Notifiarr is a unified client that delivers configurable notifications, health checks, and automation for homelab apps like Plex and the *Arr stack via Discord.

MITActively maintained

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Healthchecks.io+8

Posterizarr automates creation of textless posters and overlays for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby, pulling artwork from common metadata sources with a web UI and automation hooks.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+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.

ISCSlowing down

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KaraFun+2

A Rust-based reverse proxy that aggregates multiple Jellyfin servers into a single unified interface with unified libraries, direct playback, and user mapping.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Plex+2

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

Actively maintained

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Plex+3

StreamyStats is a Jellyfin statistics and analytics service with dashboards, watch history insights, and optional AI chat and recommendations powered by embeddings.

Actively maintained

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Google Analytics+12

Mydia is a Phoenix LiveView-based media manager for tracking, organizing, and automating downloads of movies and TV shows with TMDB/TVDB metadata.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Simkl+2

Movary is a self-hosted web app to track, rate, and explore your movie watch history with statistics, integrations, and automatic scrobbling from media servers.

MITActively maintained

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Simkl+1

Managarr is a Rust-based TUI and CLI to manage Servarr apps like Radarr and Sonarr, enabling library management and automation from the terminal.

Monitors Plex watchlists in real time and automates requests to Sonarr and Radarr with routing rules, approvals, quotas, and notifications.

Self-hostable game distribution platform for sharing DRM-free games, with a store UI, rich metadata management, and flexible authentication including SSO.

Xibo is an open source digital signage platform with a web-based CMS for creating, scheduling, and managing content across one or many display screens.

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.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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MediaMonkey+5

Reaparr is a cross-platform Plex downloader that copies media from other Plex servers into your own library, with a web UI and resilient multi-threaded downloads.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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put.io+8

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

MITActively maintained

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Spotify+9

Extension for FreshRSS that modernizes feed viewing with a video-tailored interface, mini-player, mobile-friendly controls, and Invidious/YouTube playback options.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Feedly+9

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

MITActively maintained

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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-friendly UI.

MITActively maintained

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Spotify+14

Web-based podcast manager and downloader with RSS support and GPodder compatibility. Rust backend with React/TypeScript frontend and Docker images for deployment.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Pocket Casts+7

A web-first music sheet library to upload, organize, and share sheet music with account management and tablet support.

AGPL-3.0Likely dormant

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Music Stand by WorshipTools+3