Self-hosted Media Streaming - Audio Streaming software

Audio streaming tools and software.

28 apps, ranked by GitHub stars weighted by maintenance health.

Alternatives to SpotifyAlternatives to Audible

Navidrome Music Server

Modern Music Server and Streamer, compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic.

Actively maintained ★ 24.5k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

koel

Personal music streaming server that works.

Actively maintained ★ 17.3k MIT ~$5/mo

Beets

Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger (command-line and Web interface).

Actively maintained ★ 15.9k MIT ~$5/mo

Audiobookshelf

Audiobook and podcast server. It streams all audio formats, keeps and syncs progress across devices. Comes with apps for Android and iOS.

Actively maintained ★ 14.9k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Mopidy

Extensible music server. Offers a superset of the mpd API, as well as integration with 3rd party services like Spotify, SoundCloud etc.

Actively maintained ★ 8.6k Apache-2.0 ~$5/mo

Snapcast

Synchronous multiroom audio server.

Actively maintained ★ 8k GPL-3.0 ~$5/mo

Black Candy

Music streaming server.

Actively maintained ★ 4.4k MIT 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Ampache

Web based audio/video streaming application.

Actively maintained ★ 3.8k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

mpd

Daemon to remotely play music, stream music, handle and organize playlists. Many clients available.

Actively maintained ★ 2.8k GPL-2.0 ~$5/mo

Polaris

Music browsing and streaming application optimized for large music collections, ease of use and high performance.

Actively maintained ★ 2.7k MIT 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

gonic

Lightweight music streaming server. Subsonic compatible.

Actively maintained ★ 2.6k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

mStream

Music streaming server with GUI management tools. Runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Actively maintained ★ 2.4k GPL-3.0 ~$5/mo

SwingMusic

Beautiful music player and streaming server for your local audio files. Like a cooler Spotify ... but bring your own music.

Actively maintained ★ 2.1k MIT 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Lyrion Music Server

Server software which controls a wide range of Squeezebox/Slim Devices audio players and compatible hardware (formerly Logitech Media Server).

Actively maintained ★ 1.8k GPL-2.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

LMS

Access your own music using a web interface.

Actively maintained ★ 1.7k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

moOde Audio

Audiophile-quality music playback for the wonderful Raspberry Pi family of single board computers.

Actively maintained ★ 1.5k GPL-3.0 ~$5/mo

multi-scrobbler

Scrobble plays from multiple sources to multiple scrobbling services.

Actively maintained ★ 1.3k MIT 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Pinepods

Podcast management system with multi-user support. Pinepods utilizes a central database so aspects like listen time and themes follow from device to device.

Actively maintained ★ 1k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

musikcube

Streaming audio server with Linux/macOS/Windows/Android clients.

Maintained ★ 4.9k BSD-3-Clause ~$5/mo

Audioserve

Simple personal server to serve audio files from directories (audiobooks, music, podcasts...). Focused on simplicity and supports sync of play position between clients.

Actively maintained ★ 863 MIT ~$5/mo

AzuraCast

Modern and accessible web radio management suite.

Maintained ★ 4.1k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

vod2pod-rss

Convert YouTube and Twitch channels to podcasts, no storage required. Transcodes VoDs to MP3 192k on the fly, generates an RSS feed to use in podcast clients.

Actively maintained ★ 390 MIT 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

LibreTime

Broadcast streaming radio on the web (fork of Airtime).

Maintained ★ 936 AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Stretto

Music player with Youtube/Soundcloud import and iTunes/Spotify discovery.

Maintained ★ 634 MIT ~$5/mo

BotWave

FM broadcasting system with server-client architecture for managing multiple Raspberry Pi transmitters remotely.

Actively maintained ★ 145 GPL-3.0 ~$5/mo

Supysonic

Python implementation of the Subsonic server API.

Maintained ★ 290 AGPL-3.0 ~$5/mo

Funkwhale

Modern, web-based, convivial, multi-user and free music server.

Health unknown BSD-3-Clause ~$5/mo

Väinö

High-fidelity music server for Raspberry Pi with iOS and Android companion apps.

Health unknown ⊘ Proprietary ~$5/mo

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