On your own server, TypeType runs a private video platform for YouTube, NicoNico, and BiliBili, keeping subscriptions, history, and playlists out of someone else's recommendation engine. Pick a service and search it. Browse channels, Shorts, podcasts, and a home feed. Speed and quality control. Cinema mode. Native picture-in-picture. Subtitles, alternate audio tracks, and frame-by-frame stepping. SponsorBlock segments get skipped, or just marked, by category. Subscriptions, playlists, watch later, favorites, and resume positions fill the library. Import a Google Takeout export or a PipePipe backup and a new instance never starts empty. Download video or audio to local or S3-compatible storage and collect it in the browser when it is ready. Sign in locally or through OIDC. An admin console runs the instance. Block a channel and it disappears from feeds, search, and related videos. Hide Shorts. Hide personalized recommendations. Hide the suggestions column. A native Android client for phones and tablets syncs with the same instance. An optional experimental recommender can build a personalized home feed, and each user chooses whether to turn it on. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Follow the channels you actually chose, and let their newest uploads land on your own disk instead of in an algorithmic feed. Yarrtube tracks public YouTube playlists and whole channels, checks them on a schedule, and downloads fresh videos automatically the moment they appear. The built-in web player lets you watch the collected library from a desktop or a phone browser without ads interrupting. Downloads are organized into media-server friendly folders, so the same collection shows up inside Plex, Jellyfin, or Kodi next to your films and shows. For Plex homes, an optional scan trigger refreshes the library right after a download finishes, so new episodes surface without manual rescans. You control download quality per source and can cap how many videos each channel keeps, which protects limited disk space from runaway back catalogs. Grouping sources into categories and smart playlists keeps a growing archive browsable instead of turning into one long dump. Everything runs from one Docker container with two persistent mounts, one for its small database and one for the video files. A free YouTube Data API v3 key powers the new-upload checks, so setup takes minutes. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Watch YouTube without the ads, accounts, or tracking, from a server you own: TubeHaus is a private YouTube client that keeps the familiar layout, URLs, and keyboard shortcuts. Your subscriptions, watch history, resume positions, Watch Later, and playlists live as files on the server, so every device in the house shares one library and picks up a video where another screen left it. Live streams play with segments fetched ahead of the player, and captions are transcribed on the fly when a stream has none. Chapters, storyboard previews, a mini player, and theater mode make long videos easy to navigate, while sponsors are skipped automatically and dislike counts come back to the page. Save videos offline in 1080p or 4K for trips, send playback to a TV from your phone without a separate casting dongle, and drive the television interface entirely from a remote. Imports arrive from a Google Takeout export, Invidious, NewPipe, or FreeTube, so years of subscriptions move over in minutes instead of being rebuilt by hand. A calm mode hides recommendations and Shorts when you only want to search and watch deliberately. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

A streaming-style music player for your own Navidrome, Jellyfin, or OpenSubsonic server, on the desktop or in a browser. Home leads with a featured carousel, genre shortcuts, most played, and newly added releases. Browse by album, artist, genre, folder, or radio station. Queue, lyrics, and visualizer panels can each sit in the player sidebar. Japanese lyrics can show furigana and romaji. Star ratings, favorite hearts, and scrobbling to your server come built in. Shape the sound with a parametric equalizer, a compressor, ReplayGain, and optional transcoding. Auto DJ tops up a dwindling queue with songs or whole albums. Navidrome smart playlists get a visual rule editor with match-all or match-any groups. Choose from 32 built-in themes and 39 interface languages. The catch: Feishin is only the player, so the music server stays separate. In a browser it plays through the web player backend, while the desktop app adds MPV and built-in lyrics fetching. Docker environment variables can preset and lock the server, so guests only type a username and password. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

The fediverse's answer to YouTube comes from French non-profit Framasoft: PeerTube is a TypeScript/Angular video platform where hundreds of independently operated instances federate over ActivityPub into one network. Videos you publish are discoverable across the whole video fediverse, and viewers can follow your channels from Mastodon or any ActivityPub platform - or plain RSS - without needing an account on your instance. The namesake innovation attacks video hosting's core cost problem: alongside HLS delivery, an optional WebRTC-based P2P layer lets concurrent viewers' browsers share video segments with each other, so a video going viral distributes its own bandwidth demand instead of crushing your server; instance redundancy extends this by letting friendly instances cache each other's videos. Livestreaming is first-class - stream via OBS or any RTMP software, host permanent streams, enable replays, and interact through live chat. Creators get channels, playlists, analytics, built-in video editing (trim, watermark), and an embeddable player for any website. There are no ads, no data mining, and no recommendation algorithm engineered for watch-time - the project's explicit design stance. Admins control federation policy, P2P settings, and theming; a plugin system extends the rest. AGPL-licensed, 300+ contributors, in active development since 2015.

For video enthusiasts and media archivers who want complete ownership over their online video subscriptions, MyTube provides a self-hosted video downloader, library organizer, and streaming portal. Paste a single link or queue a batch of URLs from YouTube, Bilibili, Twitch, MissAV, and over one thousand yt-dlp compatible sites to archive videos directly to your disk. Subscribe to your favorite creators so new uploads download automatically in the background alongside their default language subtitles. Local video uploads automatically generate thumbnails and pull movie or television posters, cast details, release years, and ratings from TMDB. Curate custom collections, filter your catalog by tags or authors, and generate private RSS feed links for external podcast and feed readers. Built-in playback tools include keyboard shortcuts, cinema mode, Canvas-based in-car playback, and optional real-time audio translation with live subtitles via Google Gemini. You can sync finished recordings to Alist or OpenList cloud storage, trigger custom shell scripts on task completion, and receive instant Telegram bot alerts when downloads finish or fail. Share your library safely using read-only visitor accounts while protecting admin controls with WebAuthn passkeys or a 3x3 gesture lock. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Twitch and YouTube Live, replaced by infrastructure you control: Owncast is a self-hosted live streaming and chat server. Point OBS, Streamlabs, or any RTMP-capable broadcaster at the server's ingest port, and Owncast transcodes the feed with FFmpeg into HLS with multiple quality variants, playing it in a built-in web page with a real-time chat beside it. Chat supports anonymous participation, custom emotes, and moderation tools - message removal, user bans and suspensions - with optional authentication via IndieAuth or a Fediverse account. ActivityPub integration puts the stream on the Fediverse: viewers on Mastodon and compatible services can follow a channel and get notified the moment it goes live. Video delivery can come straight off the server or offload HLS segments to S3-compatible object storage so a modest VPS handles thousands of concurrent viewers while only managing ingest and chat. The backend is a single Go binary with a React frontend - no accounts platform, no database server, no dependency stack - and the player embeds in any website. MIT-licensed, with roughly 9k GitHub stars, zero platform fees, and no algorithm or takedown policy between you and your audience.

FireShare turns a folder of game captures on your server into a browsable library where every clip gets its own permanent link, ready to paste into Discord the moment something worth bragging about happens. Point it at the directories you already record to and it scans what is there: the file people watch is always your untouched original, in MP4, WebM, or MOV, never a recompressed stand-in. Privacy is set per file, public for the feed, link-only for friends, or behind a password, and whole folders can be shared as a single link. It also sorts the chaos for you, detecting the game in each capture and shelving hundreds of timestamped filenames under proper cover art you can search and browse. Trim the dead air off a clip before posting it, add a title, description, tags, and a custom thumbnail, and watch the view count climb. For screens that struggle with huge originals, optional transcoding adds adaptive lower qualities on CPU or an NVIDIA GPU, and HDR captures get tone-mapped to SDR instead of looking washed out. Friends can upload through the browser or by token from scripts, new public clips can announce themselves to Discord or an RSS reader, and accounts come with permissions, profiles, and two-factor sign-in. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Spotify economics without the subscription or catalog gaps: Navidrome, the reference self-hosted music server, streams your own FLAC, MP3, and ALAC collection from a single Go binary with a React/Material UI web player. Its Subsonic/OpenSubsonic API compatibility is the superpower: 50+ existing clients work out of the box, from Symfonium and DSub on Android to Feishin and Sonixd on desktop, plus Android Auto, CarPlay, and Android TV apps. Transcoding is server-managed and FFmpeg-backed - FLAC direct-plays at home and downsamples to MP3, AAC, or Opus over mobile bandwidth, with the OpenSubsonic transcoding extension letting clients declare capabilities and receive per-track direct-play or transcode decisions automatically. Multi-user support gives every account its own play counts, favorites, ratings, and playlists, and multi-library support scopes different collections to different users. The feature list covers serious listening: Last.fm and ListenBrainz scrobbling, artist bios and images, embedded and external lyrics, audiobook bookmarks, saved play queues that resume on another device, internet radio, jukebox mode, and M3U playlist auto-import kept in sync with your folder. Resource usage is famously low - it runs happily on a Raspberry Pi and scales to six-figure track counts.

Discover, preview, and curate your personal music collection with Aurral, a self-hosted music discovery and library management server that turns listening history into automated playlists and album acquisitions. Connect your Last.fm, ListenBrainz, or Koito scrobble history to surface tailored artist recommendations, genre trends, upcoming releases, artist news, and nearby concert dates. Build scheduled rotating discovery flows that refresh automatically on your chosen cadence, or import existing playlists directly from Spotify, YouTube Music, Last.fm, and ListenBrainz. Preview tracks instantly in the browser before committing them to your permanent collection. Manage downloads through a built-in yt-dlp engine or route requests to slskd, SABnzbd, NZBGet, Prowlarr, deemix, and Lidarr with full queue, history, and upgrade controls. Stream your indexed library from the web player, connect Subsonic and OpenSubsonic apps such as Feishin or Music Assistant, and publish generated playlists straight to Navidrome, Plex, Plexamp, and Jellyfin. Multi-user profiles support granular permissions, custom discovery layouts, and single sign-on via OpenID Connect, Plex, Google, or reverse-proxy headers. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Whether your personal audio library spans ten thousand lossless FLAC albums or a sprawling hierarchy of studio recordings, Polaris streams your entire music collection to any browser or mobile device with instant responsiveness. You can browse cataloged tracks by album, artist, genre, or raw directory tree without waiting for sluggish page loads. Multi-value metadata indexing cleanly separates collaborations across artists, composers, record labels, and lyricists. A structured query bar filters songs using per-field search operators and boolean combinators. During playback, real-time audio waveform visualizations render signal peaks directly inside the scrubbing bar. Lossless and compressed formats play seamlessly, covering FLAC, MP3, MP4, M4B, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, Musepack, APE, WAV, and AIFF files. Each household listener gets an isolated account with private playlists, dark mode themes, and customizable color palettes. Administrators can edit mount points, user credentials, and dynamic DNS hooks either through the web settings panel or a plain-text configuration file. Mobile listeners can also connect from dedicated Android and iOS companion apps on the go. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

With 4,300+ GitHub stars and native mobile apps on three platforms, Black Candy transforms any VPS into a private Spotify-style streaming service for your personal music collection. The Ruby on Rails 7 backend with Hotwire Turbo and Stimulus delivers a responsive single-page-feeling web player supporting album browsing, artist views, playlists, favorites, and queue management without full page reloads. Point it at a media directory containing MP3, FLAC, OGG, AAC, or WAV files and Black Candy indexes metadata, fetches album artwork from Discogs API, and begins streaming immediately with on-the-fly transcoding that adapts bitrate to client bandwidth. Multi-user support gives each account independent playlists, favorites, and listening history while sharing the same music library — ideal for families or shared households. Native iOS, Android, and F-Droid apps maintained as separate repositories provide offline caching, background playback, and server discovery for mobile listening. The admin panel manages user accounts, configures media paths, and sets Discogs API tokens for automatic cover art retrieval. Deployment requires one Docker command — `docker run -p 80:80 ghcr.io/blackcandy-org/blackcandy:latest` — with persistent storage volumes for the SQLite database and media directory. For larger deployments, switch to PostgreSQL via environment variables with dedicated database URLs for ActionCable, SolidQueue, and SolidCache. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Self-hosted music requests, no Lidarr install needed: DroppedNeedle searches MusicBrainz, drives your own slskd or Usenet setup, and files only verified, tagged tracks in your library. Request a whole album or a single track, then retry or cancel from a dedicated requests page. The engine queries slskd, or SABnzbd with Newznab indexers or Prowlarr, and scores every candidate before anything downloads. Files must pass checks for readable tags, a sane duration, and an optional AcoustID fingerprint match. Close calls park for admin review. Failed requests are searched again until a verified copy arrives. Quality floors per format and storage caps keep the library tidy, and better copies replace old ones. The built-in player queues Jellyfin, Navidrome, Plex, local files, and YouTube previews with shuffle, a 10-band equalizer, and embedded lyrics. Prefer your own app? Symfonium, Finamp, Feishin, and other Subsonic or Jellyfin clients connect with revocable app passwords. Discovery rows draw on ListenBrainz and Last.fm history and global charts, and a weekly mix can queue up to five missing albums. Follow artists for new-release alerts, or add Ticketmaster or Skiddle keys for gig listings in cities you choose. Import Spotify playlists, or drag in a zip of music you bought. Admin, Trusted, and User roles decide whether a request starts at once or waits for approval. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

LMS is a self-hosted music server that streams your own library to any web browser or Subsonic-compatible player. Point it at a folder of tagged files and it builds a library that understands multi-valued genres and moods, composer, conductor, and producer credits, release types, and release groups that keep remasters beside the original. MusicBrainz identifiers settle duplicate artist and album names, and an artist information folder in Kodi NFO format adds biographies and portraits. Browse with filters like Electronic plus Relaxed, then switch on radio mode and the queue refills itself with similar tracks, chosen by audio similarity or by tags. Plays can be scrobbled to ListenBrainz and Last.fm, and loved tracks synchronize with ListenBrainz. Phone apps connect through the Subsonic and OpenSubsonic API with a personal API key, and transcoding trims bandwidth on slow connections. ReplayGain evens out loudness, podcasts and lyrics sit in the same interface, and an admin-only jukebox mode plays through the server's own audio output. Several libraries can live side by side, a .lmsignore file keeps unwanted folders out of scans, and logins can use the internal user database, PAM, or reverse-proxy SSO headers. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Streaming personal music collections with neural discovery and intelligent playlist curation is what Kima accomplishes as a modern self-hosted audio server that replaces Spotify and Apple Music. Listeners organize their FLAC, MP3, and AAC audio files into responsive grid layouts that scale up to eight columns on ultra-wide displays while automatically fetching album covers, artist biographies, and synchronized line-by-line lyrics. The built-in Vibe System utilizes CLAP neural network audio embeddings to map an entire music collection across two-dimensional clusters and three-dimensional interactive galaxy views, enabling users to explore acoustic relationships or queue smooth sonic paths between distant tracks. Music fans can import playlists directly from Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube using deterministic ISRC matching, while automated Made For You mixes generate era-specific playlists, workout stations, and discovery queues based on individual listening habits. Integrated podcast search pulls subscriptions from iTunes with automatic episode tracking across devices, while native Audiobookshelf connectors synchronize spoken-word chapter positions and playback progress directly into the unified web player. OpenSubsonic API endpoints allow mobile users to stream libraries through native clients like Symfonium and DSub using scoped authentication tokens, while administrators manage multi-user accounts with time-based two-factor authentication. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

A free, polished web client for Subsonic-compatible music servers: Substreamer is the browser-based frontend you point at your existing streaming backend to play your own library from anywhere. It speaks the Subsonic API (v1.13 and higher), which makes it compatible with the whole ecosystem that has grown around that protocol: the original Subsonic server, its forks Airsonic and Madsonic, and modern implementations like Navidrome and Ampache. That decoupling is the point - your music files, transcoding, and library indexing live on whichever server you prefer, while Substreamer provides the listening experience: browse by artist, album, and genre, build and manage playlists, search your collection, and stream on demand. This RepoCloud deployment runs the containerized web edition, so the same interface is available from any browser without installing a native app, and it pairs with the Substreamer mobile apps that made the client popular. For anyone assembling a self-hosted Spotify replacement - typically Navidrome for the backend plus a good client - Substreamer fills the client half with a clean, familiar player UI. Because it is a stateless client, the container is lightweight and low-maintenance: connect it to your server's URL and credentials, and your entire collection is streaming in minutes, with no subscription and no catalog that can disappear.