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Dev tools · February 20, 2023

Forte, an open-source self-hosted music platform with lots of features

Hey everyone, I've made a project to make your own music archive streamable and turn it into a complete music platform. The reason I've been working on this project for a while was to stream the CD's I've had at home without any cost and also make a nice looking system to manage and listen to these albums. You can host your own server and use the web player to connect. Also, it is possible to create users and give them access to your own server. Some features of the current release are group sessions, endless listening with radio, fuzzy searches, showing lyrics and specialized context menus.…

Forte, an open-source self-hosted music platform with lots of features launched on February 20, 2023 with 6 votes, #1,670 of 3,829 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

What it does

Self-hosted, music streaming platform. Contribute to kaangiray26/forte development by creating an account on GitHub.

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey everyone, I've made a project to make your own music archive streamable and turn it into a complete music platform. The reason I've been working on this project for a while was to stream the CD's I've had at home without any cost and also make a nice looking system to manage and listen to these albums. You can…

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