Self-Hosted Google Play Music Alternatives

Google Play Music is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are plenty of alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best Self-Hosted alternative is Funkwhale, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Google Play Music and 13 are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to Google Play Music are Navidrome, Ampache, Koel and Maloja.

Google Play Music alternatives are mainly Music Streaming Services but may also be Music Discovery Services or Audio Players. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Google Play Music.

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Funkwhale
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Free • Open Source
Music Streaming Service
Music Discovery Service
Audio Player
Linux
Online
Android
iPhone
Self-Hosted
Kodi
69 Funkwhale alternatives
Funkwhale is a community-driven project that lets you listen and share music and audio within a decentralized, open network. It can be self-hosted and is libre, open source software.
- - Funkwhale is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Google Play Music.
- - Funkwhale is the most popular Open Source alternative to Google Play Music.
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Funkwhale Features
1. DecentralizedFunkwhale is based on a decentralized infrastructure with no single entity controlling it.
2. Ad-freeFunkwhale doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. Support for ActivityPubFunkwhale support ActivityPub, a open and decentralized social network protocol.
4. No TrackingFunkwhale will not track you or use your personal data.
5. LightweightFunkwhale consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
6. Multiple Account supportFunkwhale support multiple accounts without the need to logout and login
Federation
Music Library
Online Music
Mobile friendly
Create Playlist
Stream audio
Unlimited music
Navidrome
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Free • Open Source
Music Streaming Service
Audio Player
Music Discovery Service
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Self-Hosted
Raspberry Pi
Cloudron
56 Navidrome alternatives
Navidrome is an open source web-based music collection server and streamer. It gives you freedom to listen to your music collection from any browser or mobile device.
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Navidrome Features
1. Ad-freeNavidrome doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. Lossless AudioNavidrome has lossless audio support, basically studio quality sound.
3. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in Navidrome without registration.
4. Dark ModeNavidrome supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
Self-hosted music
Subsonic API
Media Transcoding
ListenBrainz scrobbling
Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
Ampache
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Free • Open Source
Music Streaming Service
Audio Player
Media Center
Mac
Windows
Linux
Self-Hosted
PHP
Cloudron
85 Ampache alternatives
Ampache is a web based audio streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device.
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Ampache Features
Subsonic API
Streaming
Self-hosted music
Support for MPD
WebDAV Support
Web-Based
Based on Laravel
Opinions about Ampache as a Alternative to Google Play Music
Most users think Ampache is a great Google Play Music alternative.
Koel
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Freemium • Open Source
Music Streaming Service
Audio Player
Music Discovery Service
Linux
Android
iPhone
Self-Hosted
Cloudron
58 Koel alternatives
A personal music streaming server that works.

If you want to use the mobile apps, you have to pay for it.
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Koel Features
Self-hosted music
Music Library
Unlimited music
Web-Based
Comments about Koel as a Alternative to Google Play Music
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florentserra
Once it has a mobile app, it is golden!
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Maloja
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Free • Open Source
Online
Self-Hosted
192 Maloja alternatives
Simple self-hosted music scrobble database to create personal listening statistics. No recommendations, no social network, no nonsense.
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Maloja Features
Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
Music Library
Madsonic
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Freemium • Open Source
Audio Player
Music Streaming Service
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
iPhone
BSD
iPad
Self-Hosted
Kindle Fire
60 Madsonic alternatives
Madsonic is a web-based media streamer and jukebox fork of Subsonic Based on Java technology, Madsonic runs on most platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, OSX, and Unix variants.
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Madsonic Features
1. Multiple Account supportMadsonic support multiple accounts without the need to logout and login
Web-Based
Playlists
GPLv3
Local server
Streaming
Dedicated Server Hosting
Java based
Music Library
Music collection
Stream audio
netjukebox
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Free • Open Source
Music Streaming Service
Audio Player
Media Server
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
BSD
Self-Hosted
31 netjukebox alternatives
netjukebox is a web-based media jukebox for MPD, VideoLAN and Winamp/httpQ. It features real-time MP3 streaming from different audio formats. Download single tracks or a whole album in one zip file. It is also possible to batch transcode the whole music collection to another...
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netjukebox Features
Streaming
Web-Based
Sockso
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Free • Open Source
Music Streaming Service
Mac
Windows
Linux
Self-Hosted
24 Sockso alternatives
Sockso is a free, open-source, personal music server for everyone! Its designed to be as simple as possible so that anyone with a mouse and some mp3s can get their friends listening to their music across the internet in seconds!
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Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer developed. Last commit 4 years ago, lot of issues on their github.
Jinzora Media Server
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Free • Open Source
Music Streaming Service
Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
Self-Hosted
29 Jinzora Media Server alternatives
Jinzora Media Server is a web based media streaming and management system, allowing you to stream your music and videos to any device with a web browser.
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Jinzora Media Server Features
Media Streaming
Web-Based
Discontinued
Last update in 2013...https://sourceforge.net/projects/jinzora/
LMS - Lightweight Music Server
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Free • Open Source
Music Streaming Service
Audio Player
Linux
BSD
Self-Hosted
Raspberry Pi
16 LMS - Lightweight Music Server alternatives
Access your self-hosted music using a web interface.
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LMS - Lightweight Music Server Features
Self-hosted music
Music Library
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Zina
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Free • Open Source
Music Streaming Service
Mac
Windows
Linux
Self-Hosted
Drupal
Joomla
Wordpress
20 Zina alternatives
Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer. It can run on its own, embeded into an existing website, or as a Drupal module, Wordpress plug-in and Joomla component. It is released under the GNU General Public License v2.
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Zina Features
Embeddable
Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer developed. Last news on their website dates back 2010.
streeme
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Free • Open Source
Music Streaming Service
Mac
Windows
Linux
Self-Hosted
27 streeme alternatives
Listen to music on the go! Streeme is an open source, html5 based personal music server.Requirements: PHP 5.2.10+ & PEAR,Apache 2+,MySQL 5+,FFMPEG,SVN
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streeme Features
Stream audio
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, that dates back to 2012, can be still downloaded from Github
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