Music Lovers Building Self-Hosted Spotify
Users are frustrated with existing music streaming services (Spotify, YouTube Music, etc.) and are actively exploring self-hosted solutions. The core pain is a lack of robust music discovery, metadata management, and collaborative listening features within these self-hosted options, leading to complex setups and usability issues.
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“Currently, the controls and the album art stay on screen all the time during music playback. It would be nice if there was a way to hide them so we could enjoy some of the more 'visual' visualizers.”
“the problem i was trying to solve: someone's on aux at a party, a song ends, there's three seconds of silence, someone scrolls, the energy drops. every time. so this loads two youtube videos side by side and gives you a crossfader between them. you queue the next track while the current one is still playing and blend into it. speed slider if you want to line up the tempo. no account, no install, runs in the browser. point is you don't need to know anything about djing to make the roo”
“Top radios on the first screen: When users access the radio screen, they immediately see the list of the top radios in their country, along with a long list of suggested radios from among the most listened to in the world. Hybrid Listening: Seamlessly handles offline local files (.mp3, .flac, .m4a, .ogg, .mka, .aac, .wav, .opus, .wma) and over 60,000 streaming radio stations. Separated Favorites and Recents: Each section—Radio and Offline Music—has its own Favorites and Recents. The user doesn&#”
“A few months back I was building something completely unrelated and needed one small thing: the Spotify soundtrack for a specific movie. Not the score, not "similar music" — the actual soundtrack playlist for that title. Every option I found had the same gap. TMDB and OMDb give you cast, posters, ratings, release dates — genuinely great APIs, but zero music data. Every "listen to the soundtrack" link you've ever seen on a movie blog washand-curated by someone who went and”
“Preflight Checklist [x] I use the latest version of Pear Desktop (Application). [x] I have searched the issue tracker for a feature request that matches the one I want to file, without success. Problem Description Add support for creating folders to organize playlists, similar to FolderFlow extension for Youtube. Proposed Solution A new Playlist Folders option in the Plugins menu. Folders would unfortunately need to be stored locally, since YouTube Music does not natively support playlist folder”
Curious about your feedback 👀 if anyone has given it a try.
“When I'm on the library view of an artist I would like to be able to search for more albums of that artist directly. Workaround is to go to search, type the name of the artist, select the correct result and only then can I see more albums.”
“Top radios on the first screen: When users access the radio screen, they immediately see the list of the top radios in their country, along with a long list of suggested radios from among the most listened to in the world. Hybrid Listening: Seamlessly handles offline local files (.mp3, .flac, .m4a, .ogg, .mka, .aac, .wav, .opus, .wma) and over 60,000 streaming radio stations. Separated Favorites and Recents: Each section—Radio and Offline Music—has its own Favorites and Recents. The user doesn&#”
“MusicGrabber works very well for this. It keeps Spotify playlists entirely in sync with your local playlist and downloads/removes songs automatically. It can use slskd, YouTube and other sources. Very good tool. Also the developer reacts very quickly on bug reports.”
“Hi, Very new to all this. I have around 3000 songs on Spotify from 1000 different artists that I would like to download on my server from Soulseek. I'm currently running Lidarr with Tubifarry and slskd in a Docker compose. As you probably all know, when you upload your Spotify playlist to Lidarr, you can't download just one song, it downloads the whole album. I'm looking for an alternative where I could upload my playlist and it would download the songs individually on slskd. I have”
“New to this app, find it the best music app available, totally in love with it. The UI, library, features are unmatched. Thank you so much to the dev for this wonderful app. Here are few things I wanna ask, please have a look Can't I like songs (felt the like button is missing) and it adds the song to app library locally to somewhere "Liked" section (seen in previous app i used) also no option to create a custom playlist in app library other than my replays. Manually I can add a song or album to”
“I should give this another try, I've bounced off it a couple of times. I think I just don't like MA all that much. I use Lyrion and squeezebox players (which, in my set up, are mostly Raspberry Pis with a decent DAC attached).”
“My good man, how long would it take to scan my 65k albums? Is there an offline option for the MusicBrainz database? Do you plan to support downloads via Tiddl or Tidarr, or provide other Tidal support? As soon as I get my server back up and running, this is the first new service I’ll launch.”
“When trying to repeat a Track "Circle with a 1" the track is not repeating on Spotify Solist.”
“Feature Description Please add the download every songs locally as mp3 file, which was available at 1.0.0 update as shown in the screenshot of the below. <img width="720" height="1600" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user attachments/assets/5a7711a1 9533 44f9 bf2d 600014ec9611" / Also a feature which is mentioned in the latest 1.2.4 release notes as mentioned in below. Export as MP3: Local and YouTube playlists can now be exported as MP3 files. I couldn't found this feature Use Case / Ration”
“First, the client ID was receiving errors which has recently been reported. To resolve this i change to a spotify app client ID i made manually, this resolved that issue. However, when testing I realised these commands dont appear to function anymore: arch dell% spotify player get key user playlists Bad request: missing field tracks at line 1 column 1544 arch dell% spotify player get key user followed artists Bad request: json parse error: missing field followers at line 1 column 726: missing fi”
“感谢您的开发 当前播放音乐时，会自动下载播放列表中的下一首歌曲。但大多数情况下我只想听当前这一首，不需要提前下载下一首 希望能像 Monogram 一样，增加 单曲循环时不预加载下一首 的功能：开启单曲循环后，仅播放并缓存当前歌曲，不自动预加载下一首；手动切歌时再加载对应歌曲 <img width="927" height="1920" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user attachments/assets/8eb0b380 3f6b 4213 941b 94441096eda4" /”
“感谢您的开发 当前播放音乐时，会自动下载播放列表中的下一首歌曲。但大多数情况下我只想听当前这一首，不需要提前下载下一首 希望能像 Monogram 一样，增加 单曲循环时不预加载下一首 的功能：开启单曲循环后，仅播放并缓存当前歌曲，不自动预加载下一首；手动切歌时再加载对应歌曲 <img width="927" height="1920" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user attachments/assets/8eb0b380 3f6b 4213 941b 94441096eda4" /”
“Easiest is to edit your fstab file to point at your samba or nfs share. If it's samba, just be sure cifs is installed. Once you do it a few times, it gets easier. For ease, this is one of the lines in my fstab (modified for anonymity) //192.168.258.25/Drive1/Music/lidarr /mnt/Music cifs cred=/root/.cifscred,iocharset=utf8,uid=lidarr,gid=media”
“As soon as play button button is pressed (either in app itself or origin widget/island) it starts alternating Play/Pause very fast.”
“Please, could you enable the player to autoplay similar songs from a searched song once it is over. Something like an automated playlist based on the search <img width="709" height="1600" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user attachments/assets/264a6d29 91dc 4c8e 9547 c272ef46f64e" /”
Looks great, though support for lidarr would be a welcome addition.
“I listen to a ridiculous number of DJ sets while focusing and coding. The problem was that everything was scattered across YouTube, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, browser bookmarks and random messages I'd sent myself. Finding a set I remembered listening to six months ago was sometimes impossible. So I built SetVault. It lets you: focus player, plays an uninterrupted flow of saved DJ sets save DJ sets from different platforms into one library create playlists tag sets by genre, mood, event, etc. disc”
“新功能描述 希望可以做到：在”非歌词内容过滤规则“界面，有该选项可供选择：歌词中带昌号的直接删除该行歌词（排除男： 女： 合： 等等） 起因：我已经在该界面新增了三页的规则，但是还会遇到很多冷门的非歌词内容 <img width="410" height="913" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user attachments/assets/250d0f3f bc46 4737 a4e2 374d9db12591" / 屏幕截图或录屏 No response”
Hi, Can we have an option to read the lyrics from the mp3 file directly ? They can be embedded in the id3 tags. Thanks
“Do you also enjoy ranking the tracks in your favorite album, arguing with friends and strangers online about an artist’s correct discography ranking? Then Ordinalist was made especially for you. Ordinalist takes a playlist, album, or discography and makes you choose between two choices at a time. You pick the one you like more. Then do it again. And again. And several more times because apparently you needed 147 songs in this playlist. While you’re busy having an existential crisis over which tr”
“Easily manage offline music and online radio streams in a single, clean interface. What it does: Top radios on the first screen: When users access the radio screen, they immediately see the list of the top radios in their country, along with a long list of suggested radios from among the most listened to in the world. Hybrid Listening: Seamlessly handles offline local files (.mp3, .flac, .m4a, .ogg, .mka, .aac, .wav, .opus, .wma) and over 60,000 streaming radio stations. Separated Favorites and”
“I’m building my library from scratch so this tool has been incredibly helpful. But with big library it can take a long time to process musicbrainz tags given the public instance has 1req/s limit. If there was an option to select self hosted one and get higher rates that’ll be great. I know this is niche and not everyone would need it. But if there’s config I can set that’ll be good enough.”
“Hi there Paul and Argie. I'm a huge fan of Arpeggi and use it daily as my music player from my Navidrome. The player works fantastic. My only and main struggle with this app is that the lack of being able to play songs through siri voice control. Adding this to the app itself would make it an absolute 10/10 for me personally as it would allow me to drive in my car to work, which is an hour commute, and control the music fully by voice. I am not familiar with developing in Apple's eco system sadl”
“Wanted to share a project in case it's useful here. Mirasonic is a Subsonic-API server whose backend is YouTube Music instead of a local file collection. Any Subsonic client works unchanged — search, browse by artist/album, playlists, stars. Playlists and starred tracks are stored in a local SQLite file on the server, so they persist and back up with a single cp . Streaming is done by resolving with yt-dlp and repacking the bytes as ADTS; nothing is cached to disk. No Google account or cooki”
“Easily manage offline music and online radio streams in a single, clean interface. What it does: Top radios on the first screen: When users access the radio screen, they immediately see the list of the top radios in their country, along with a long list of suggested radios from among the most listened to in the world. Hybrid Listening: Seamlessly handles offline local files (.mp3, .flac, .m4a, .ogg, .mka, .aac, .wav, .opus, .wma) and over 60,000 streaming radio stations. Separated Favorites and”
“Good times. The old Spotify client was native and fast. I miss that. The new one is heavy and clunky.”
“if i tasked it with "create spotify" I'd need that much.asking it to "disassemble Spotify and find out the minimal code path needed to play a song" is much more in reach. I don't need it to oneshot it. If it gets stuck, I've read enough disassembled C to figure it out and get it unblocked.Instead of banging my head against a binary for 5 hours, I'll have my agent bang it's weights for 20 hours, then put in my 1 hour of polish.My first task would be to fix the Android version of Facebook Messenge”
“Music Assistant can use your navidrome library as a music source. It can synchronize playback across all connected playback devices. I have not used PoE speakers before, so I cannot speak to how easy it would be to add them, but it seems pretty straight forward so long as they support a standard protocal like DLNA or bluesound etc. I use a Yamaha network receiver, and the moment it was connected to the network, music assistant picked it up and I was able to play music from the connected speakers”
“That’s a great idea. I was going to do something similar to help tag untagged songs. Let us add custom metadata with trust rankings so we can naturally and gradually fill an entire library in with its metadata”
“i've always wanted a streaming service that treats metadata like a first-class citizen. like let me tag my own tracks with custom fields and build smart playlists off those. spotify's "mood" playlists are fine but they're guessing, i want to define my own rules also the crossfade on spotify is way too basic, give me a proper adjustable gapless playback with real crossfade timing options. feels like such a solved problem from the ipod days that nobody bothers with anymore”
“First of all, thank you for developing this amazing app! I've recently started using InternetRadio and I'm really enjoying the experience. To make the app even better, I'd like to suggest two features/enhancements: 1. Volume Boost (Up to 200%) Problem: Some radio stations naturally have very low output audio compared to system audio levels. Proposed Solution: Introduce an extra volume boost option up to 200%. Implementation Idea: Add a setting to manually toggle "Volume Booster" on/off. Or , all”
“Made a free 20-track music pack for anyone who needs a soundtrack 🎵 20 royalty-free tracks across 9 genres — action cinematic, sci-fi, orchestral, hard rock, electronic techno, retro chiptune, casual and acoustic. WAV and OGG, most with loops. Free for commercial projects, no attribution needed, no signup. https://andrewsitkov.itch.io/free-music-starter-pack-for-games-video-streams I compose game music for a living, so this is the real stuff rather than offcuts. All hand-composed, no AI generat”
“Thank you for the advice! Have you had any trouble with Spotify not uploading properly, hence your recommendation to upload the day before?”
“I use Plex for all our media, and Plex amp on mobile. Any benefit to using this setup for the music aspect?”
“I am a long-time Spotify user, with tons of albums saved but never with a proper way to manage it: display genres, see what I've already listened, and many other things. I was finally able to bring to life the idea on how to handle the tons of music and it is named [Albums Vault]( https://codefloe.com/rabc/albumsvault/ ). It is a macOS app built with Tauri + Rust, with plans to release to more platforms soon. Since Spotify now restricts the creation of apps keys, it works in a BYOK: at first”
“cool. testing it right now. a bit slow (got 6000+ files), but it's running on my server so i can leave it to do its thing lol from what i understand, it tags by album country (or am I getting it wrong?). would be nice if it could tag by track individually (e.g., the persona 5 sountrack has both English and instrumental songs, but it's released in Japan). no idea how to implement something like that, though”
“I'd highly suggest setting this up - most music players / servers can be setup to do this automatically for you. both sites will track your listens over time and then start giving you recommendations / suggested playlists.”
“Yes I made the switch too since 10.11 has huge issues with performance on massive libraries (Talking about 2000+ Albums in FLAC back then)”
“I switched to AudioBooth when I switched from Plex to AudioBookshelf. Been very happy with its UI.”
Sweet! Just deployed it. Seems to be a lot faster retrieving music than HiFiAPI too. Thanks!
“I tried importing multiple of my public playlists from YT Music. It detects the playlists and shows the name of the playlist but the song selector screen for import shows zero songs.”
“If you have Plex, then you already have solution in place. Get Spotiflac Next (pay 5 euro once) and pull all your Spotify music in Flac. Then get Curatorr and it will create smart playlists for you. It can also pull your Spotify playlists if you want. Alternatively you can pull them with Soundiiz, but it's 5 euro a month (you probably need just one month though). If you don't have Plex, then use Navidrome.”
“I have written a script that checks when I add a song on a YouTube/SoundCloud playlist and automatically downloads it to my library And for similar tracks/playlist mixes I use the audiomuse plugin For recommendations I use last.fm and listenbrainz”
“Did this exact thing a couple years ago and never looked back. Navidrome handles the streaming and it's solid. One thing people skip: if your friends aren't on your network, don't port-forward your home box, just use tailscale or a cheap VPS. Export your spotify playlist before you switch and the scanner chews through 8k songs in a night easy. Family plan dies, everyone gets their own account, done.”
“My recomendarions are more niche though, so i would say yes, i think it depends alot of how you build you're playlist, i started adding a lot of underground nu-metal bands and then spotify started recomending me more underground nu-metal songs”
“are they really? I'm tired of spotify always recommending the same "popular" songs in y style. Whereas some sea-sailing sites have led me to many discoveries over the years I wouldn't have gotten from spotify truly, their recommendation engine is much much worse than what it used to be several years ago”
“Ahh, this is what I wanted. So I actually set up sonobarr + navidrome and some other containers to try and recommend me good music. I use a torrent type of service (private trackers) for audio books and it worms really well I think SoulSeek would have replaced my liked songs. But I would have had issues finding new music. I listen to Spotify probably almost 40 hours a week. At 2 minutes a song that's 1200 individual songs. The varity of content there is too much compared to any other form of”
“I don't know, my way of consuming music seems different from yours, from what I've read. I've always preferred having the music I know I like downloaded locally, and since I started using Navidrome I simply have the same thing, only centralized on my server so that everything is synchronized in case I add something new, but if you like Spotify's algorithm there's not much you can do.”
“So i have 7891 songs on my "playlist" on spotify, I pay 2,30€/m for spotify 28€ year, I'm in a family with other 6 friends and it went fine, but it's a pain in the ass when you're the main man (me) I wanted a good alternative to this. submitted by /u/Big-Spend-5791 [link] [comments]”