Self-hosted projects tagged “Music Library”

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

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

MITActively maintained

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MediaMonkey+4

Self-hosted music collection manager that monitors artists, grabs releases from Usenet/torrents, and automatically imports, renames, and upgrades your library.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Lidarr

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

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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JRiver Media Center+7

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

Ampache is a web-based audio and video streaming app and file manager for accessing and streaming your organized music and video collection from almost any device.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Ampache (Cloud)+11

Automates music downloads from NZB/torrent feeds and auto-manages library tagging, renaming, and indexing.

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

MPD is a modular, network-controlled music server that streams and manages a local music collection via a protocol-enabled daemon.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Volumio Premium (MyVolumio)+8

Polaris is a self-hosted music streaming server for browsing and streaming your personal music collection from web browsers and mobile devices, with multi-user support.

MITActively maintained

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Plex+9

Gonic is a lightweight, self-hosted Subsonic API server for streaming your music library with transcoding, playlists, podcasts support, and multi-user access.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+10

Spooty is a self-hosted Spotify downloader that fetches metadata from Spotify links and downloads matching audio from YouTube, with playlist/artist subscriptions.

MITActively maintained

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Spotify+4

Self-hosted Node.js music streaming server with web and mobile clients; supports FLAC/MP3, playlists, gapless playback and visualizer.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+8

SoulSync automates music discovery, playlist curation, downloads, and library organization, syncing results to media servers like Plex, Jellyfin, and Navidrome.

MITActively maintained

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Spotify+8

Explo is a self-hosted music discovery tool that uses ListenBrainz recommendations to fetch personalized playlists, download tracks, and add them to your media server library.

MITActively maintained

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Spotify+4

Maloja is a self-hosted music scrobble database that tracks listens and generates personal charts and listening statistics via a web UI and API.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Last.fm+3

Open-source C++ music server with web UI, Subsonic API, audio transcoding, recommendations, multi-library support and playlists/lyrics features.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+11

Open-source lightweight music server offering web-based streaming, tagging, recommendations, Subsonic API compatibility and audio transcoding for personal music collections.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+9

moOde Audio is a Raspberry Pi music player and streamer with a responsive WebUI, MPD-based playback, multiroom audio, and support for popular network renderers and outputs.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Volumio Premium (MyVolumio)+5

Open-source self-hosted music server for collectors with flexible metadata parsing, multiple releases/versions support, music-video handling and Docker deployment.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+9

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

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

MITActively maintained

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Last.fm+3

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

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

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

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

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

MITActively maintained

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Last.fm+3

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