Open Source Alternatives to Apple Music

Switching from Apple Music to an open source alternative means streaming a library you actually own rather than a licensed catalog that can change or lose tracks at a label’s request. Navidrome is a lightweight, self-hosted server that streams your own ripped or purchased files through a modern web player and any Subsonic-compatible mobile app. Funkwhale takes a federated approach instead, letting independently run community servers interconnect so a personal library can be extended by following other pods. Neither offers Apple Music’s tens of millions of licensed tracks or lossless/spatial audio out of the box, but both give you full control over what’s actually available to stream.