Audio and podcasting

SoundCloud Go Plus alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

navidrome/navidrome22,731GPL-3.0A lightweight personal music server providing web UI, streaming, user accounts, and mobile clients.Open on GitHub koel/koel17,207MITA web-based personal music streaming service with library management, web player, and user authentication.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Large catalog and existing user community
Mobile apps and platform-specific integrations
Advanced discovery/recommendation algorithms
Licensing deals and copyrighted catalogue
Global scale and reliability engineering

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches SoundCloud Go Plus, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.