Stream your personal music library anywhere with Spotify-like UI?, smart offline sync, and zero subscription fees.
Added Apr 11, 2026
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Users are frustrated with paid music streaming subscriptions, intrusive ads on free tiers, and poor UI?/metadata in existing self-hosted solutions. Many have large personal music libraries but lack a polished, cross-device player that combines the convenience of Spotify with the control of owning their own files.
A self-hosted music server with a polished mobile and web client that mirrors the Spotify experience—album art, smart playlists, listening stats, and auto-tagging. Smart sync caches frequently played tracks for offline use without requiring the entire library on-device, and a built-in metadata fixer automatically fetches tags, lyrics, and cover art.
Subscription fatigue is at an all-time high as Spotify and others raise prices and increase ad loads. Meanwhile, self-hosting infrastructure (NAS devices, home servers, cheap VPS) has become mainstream, creating a large audience ready for a premium-feeling player they fully control.
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**The Problem:** Music is one of the things people do most on their Mac, yet macOS offers surprisingly few ways to control it. The system provides only basic playback controls, with no rich mini player or customizable music widget that works across your favorite apps **Liqoria** is not just a controller for apps like Apple Music, Spotify, and your browsers it’s also a standalone music player for Mac. You can search for songs, manage your playing queue, and control everything from one place. **Features:** * **Five player modes:** Floating player, Dock player, Notch Player , Menu Bar player and Lock Screen player * **Liquid Glass Dynamic Island Player** * **Apple Music Sync Lyrics:** Like, Shuffle, Repeat * **Up Next -** Show you the upcoming song few seconds before start * **Built-in Spotify and Apple Music Queue management Support** * **Real FFT waveform:** inspired by the Dynamic Island * **Multiple players at once:** View a list of all your active music players in one place * **Search in Spotify and Apple Music -** * **Apple Music queue management** * **Animated artwork** for Apple Music on float and lock screen * **Music widget for Mac** * **Support multiples apps -** Handle music from Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Browsers and more **Comparison:** Apps like Silicio and Sleeve and Tunful are limited, mainly supporting Apple Music and Spotify without built-in search or full queue control. They also can’t display multiple players simultaneously and lack features like audio quality indicators and advanced Apple Music/Spotify queue handling **Pricing:** $8.90 - Lifetime license (up to 3 devices) **Free 72-hour trial available** **Download:** [liqoria.com](liqoria.com)
Seekify - Music Downloader and Player A music player you run on your own machine, and it also grabs the music you are missing. Search for a track or a whole album and it pulls it from Soulseek or YouTube, tags it, sorts it into your library, and it is ready to play. Paste a list of songs and it downloads them all. First time putting it out there. \- Downloads from Soulseek or YouTube \- Bulk import a whole list at once \- Tags and sorts your library for you \- Browse, play, queue, favorite \- Audio reactive WebGL2 visualizer \- Different scrubber bars to pick \- Colors shift to match the cover art \- Flags the rough stuff for you \- Admin settings for the important stuff Put your music in the music folder, open Seekify in a browser, press play. There are scripts in the scripts folder to build and run it (Mac, Linux, Windows). That is how you start it. It uses its own music folder for now, a location option is coming. Setup is a bit self guided, rough edges expected. Beta. Not great with version numbers, better changelog one day. What is in main is the app. Written in Go, vanilla JS and CSS, a little Python and shell. **Installing Seekify** GitHub: [github.com/.../seekify-musicplayer](github.com/.../seekify-musicplayer) Container: [github.com/.../seekify](github.com/.../seekify) **On Unraid:** Search "Seekify" in the Community Applications tab and install from there. **On plain Docker:** docker pull ghcr.io/sadoway7/seekify:latest docker run -d --name seekify -p 8081:8081 -v /path/to/music:/app/music ghcr.io/sadoway7/seekify:latest
Im looking for a music player that can download songs and play it offline, import playlists from spotify and YT music and is aesthetically pleasing to the eyes like apple music 🙏🙏
Vi piace il mio Spotify self-hosted? Frontend sviluppato in Flutter + backend Django su server casalingo (un vecchio redmi note 7 su cui ho installato Termux). Per installare le canzoni usa yb-dlp e le manda in streaming tramite VPN Tailscale ai miei dispositivi!
Is there any free music app without ads? I don’t have money left for a Spotify or YouTube Music subscription.
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