Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Meelo, self-hosted music server for collectors and music maniacs
I've been working on this alternative for Plex for almost 3 years now. It's main selling point is that it correctly handles multiple versions of albums and songs. As of today, it only has a web client. It tries to be as flexible as possible, but still requires a bit of configuration (including regexes, but if metadata is embedded into the files, it can be skipped). I just released v3.0, making videos first-class data, and scanning + metadata matching faster.
Meelo is a self-hosted music server designed for collectors who manage multiple versions of albums and songs. It serves as an alternative to Plex, with a web-based interface and flexible configuration options that can… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hey HN! I just shipped a project I’ve been working on called Maroofy: https://maroofy.com You can search for any song, and it’ll use the song’s audio to find other similar-sounding music. Demo: https://twitter.com/subby_tech/status/1621293770779287554 How does it work? I’ve indexed ~120M+ songs from the iTunes catalog with a custom AI audio model that I built for understanding music. My model analyzes raw music audio as input and produces embedding vectors as output. I then store the embedding vectors for all songs into a vector database, and use semantic…
2023 · maroofy.com · its alternatives →
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The easiest music streaming server available. Contribute to IrosTheBeggar/mStream development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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It's been a long slow hog and I almost gave up a few times (more than a few) but when covid hit this year it gave me some time to really focus on my product. There were stupid user journey things that I knew needed fixed. There were some features I knew needed added. And I knew the pricing was wrong. I spent some hardcore time working on these things back in March / April and since then my MRR has continued to grow. My product is SongBox (https://songbox.rocks) - it's an alternative to things like bandcamp and soundcloud for creators who need to share audio files privately.…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Self-hosted music streaming server 🎶 with RESTful API and Web interface. Think of it as your very own Spotify! ☁️🎧 - ironsmile/euterpe
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · enqueueapp.com · its alternatives →
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Libre music sequencer for desktop and mobile platforms - helio-fm/helio-sequencer
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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BentenSound▲287Free stock music for your videos. Unsplash for music.
2019 · bentensound.com · its alternatives →
- 8MA
2017 · musikcube.com · its alternatives →
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I started working on Kyoo almost 5 years ago because I did not like the options at the time. It started as a "sandbox" project where I could learn about tech I was interested in, and slowly became more than that.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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bespoke music player for web. Contribute to DusteDdk/dstream development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SUB/WAVE▲102Self-hosted radio with an AI DJ and one shared stream
Jul 2026 · getsubwave.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, I've spent some time working on music demixing or music source separation algorithms, which take in a mixed song and output estimates of isolated components (e.g. vocals, drums, bass, other). I took a popular PyTorch model with good performance (Open-Unmix, UMX-L weights), reimplemented the inference steps in C++, and compiled it to WebAssembly for a free client-side music demixer.
2023 · sevag.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Last time I showed free-music-demixer, which people seemed to enjoy. It was a static website with a Javascript + WASM module to perform music demixing (or music source separation) using an AI model UMX-L (Open-Unmix) running client-side in the browser. Since then, I have overhauled the project and made several improvements: - The demixing/separation quality is higher now, since I implemented the missing post-processing step - Memory usage is lower now by performing a custom segmented inference with a streaming LSTM, which should allow larger tracks (or, dare I say,…
2023 · freemusicdemixer.com · its alternatives →
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Here is the backstory: I used to use YouTube Music, but then I deleted my Google account. I didn't want Spotify because I hate it for various reasons, and at the same time I wanted to show off my programming skills. So here we are. --- On the client: solidjs + tailwindcss + minisearch. IndexedDB as the database. One web worker to download audio to OPFS. Another web worker for indexing with minisearch. On top of this a service worker to precache static assets and make the app work offline. On the server: bun + astro + sqlite + ffmpeg. Full-text search is implemented with fts5. Astro Actions…
2025 · mayo.clumsy.fish · its alternatives →
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Music player server with a web-based user interface. - andrewrk/groovebasin
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · tinyrave.com · its alternatives →
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10 years ago I began working on Muki, a web-based MIDI and chiptune player which I eventually announced here on HN[0]. It was a fun weekend project. Over the years I received numerous requests from people that wanted more: more music, more features, more playable formats, you name it. Eventually I began working on a complete rewrite of the app (this time for real), and, realizing that each year another chiptune or MIDI website went offline, I decided to start archiving them for preservation. Today, 10 years after the first release, I think it's finally time for the new, nicer version to hit…
2024 · pixeltune.org · its alternatives →
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2015 · ampache.org · its alternatives →
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2013 · rdubigny.github.io · its alternatives →
- 21MS
2016 · dmpop.github.io · its alternatives →
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A self hosted music streaming server. Contribute to blackcandy-org/blackcandy development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, TL;DR Memex is a cross-platform desktop app for vibe coding. Think ChatGPT + Claude Code rolled into one. Why we built it: We love chat tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT. We also love coding agents, like in Cursor and Windsurf. We don’t like that web-based app builders are opinionated about tech stack and we can’t run them locally. So, we built Memex to be a chat tool + coding agent that supports any tech stack. What it can do today: Claude Code-like coding. Agentic web search / research. Pre-built templates (e.g. fullstack, iOS, python + modal, etc). Inline data analysis + viz.…
2025 · memex.tech · its alternatives →
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I'm happy to announce the release of Polaris 0.15.0 . Polaris is a self-hosted music streaming server, to enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device. It is free and open-source software, without any kind of premium version. This release is the biggest one since Polaris' humble beginnings 9 years ago. It's technically not a rewrite but there is not much code that was left untouched. The highlights are: - New visual design for the web client (screenshots[1]) - Ability to browse the music collection by artist/album/genre, not only by file - Support for multi-value…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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