Self-Hosting Navidrome: Personal Music Streaming Server (Spotify Alternative)
Self-Hosting Navidrome: Personal Music Streaming Server (Spotify Alternative) Spotify costs $12/month, owns the relationship between you and your music, and can remove albums from your library without notice. If you’ve built a music collection over the years — ripped CDs, purchased albums from Bandcamp, curated FLAC files — Navidrome turns that collection into your own streaming service, accessible from any device, anywhere. Navidrome is a lightweight, open-source music server written in Go. It scans your music library, reads metadata, serves a modern web interface, and speaks the Subsonic API — which means dozens of polished mobile and desktop apps work with it out of the box. It runs comfortably on a Raspberry Pi Zero, handles libraries with hundreds of thousands of tracks, and uses around 30-50MB of RAM for typical collections. ...