Self-hosted alternatives to Spotify
Adverts on the free tier, and the Premium fee, are what send most people looking for a Spotify alternative. A music server at home plays the files you own, without adverts and without a listening profile built from what you play. The apps below stream from your own server.
- Pricing
- Free with ads, Premium subscription
- You hand over
- Listening history
- Category
- Audio
These stream music you own; they don't replace Spotify's catalogue.
Apps that can replace it
Navidrome
Play your own music collection in any browser or Subsonic-compatible app, streamed from a lightweight music server.
Jellyfin
Host your movies, TV and music on your own server and stream them anywhere, without a subscription, a cloud service or Plex Pass.
Koel
Stream your personal music collection from your own music server through a web player, with playlists, podcasts and radio built in.
Plex Media Server
Turn the movies, TV shows and music on your own server into a library you can stream to any device.
Emby
Emby, a media server you host yourself, builds the movie, TV and music folders on your homelab server into a library with artwork, user accounts and parental controls.
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