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Open source alternatives to Spotify

We track 7 open-source Spotify alternatives, of which 6 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 3 ship a Docker image. gonic leads on health at 94/100 with 37 commits in the last 90 days; across all 7 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, BSD-3-Clause, GPL-3.0 and 1 other licences.

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45k
Combined stars
2,442
Commits / 90 days
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Showing 7 of 7 tools

All 7 Spotify alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    gonic

    94 GOOD

    Lightweight music streaming server. Subsonic compatible.

    ★ 2.5k · ⟳ 7 days ago · v0.22.0 · GPL-3.0

    DockerGo
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • LMS

    93 GOOD

    Access your self-hosted music using a web interface.

    ★ 1.7k · ⟳ today · v3.80.0 · GPL-3.0

    DockerdebC++
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Beets

    87 GOOD

    Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger (command-line and Web interface).

    ★ 16k · ⟳ yesterday · v2.14.0 · MIT

    Pythondeb
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Spotify alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Spotify?

gonic scores highest at 94/100, with 37 commits in the last 90 days, 2.5k GitHub stars and its latest release (v0.22.0) published 3 months ago. Ampache has the most raw commit activity at 1682 commits in 90 days.

Which Spotify alternatives use a permissive licence?

4 of 7 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): koel (MIT), Beets (MIT), Black Candy (MIT), Funkwhale (BSD-3-Clause). 3 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which Spotify alternatives run in Docker?

3 of 7 publish a Docker image or Compose file: gonic, LMS, Black Candy. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.