Open Source Alternatives to Spotify

Switching from Spotify to an open source alternative means streaming a library you actually own rather than one a company licenses and can alter or restrict at any time. Navidrome is a free, self-hosted music server that streams your own audio files through a modern web player and Subsonic-compatible mobile apps. Funkwhale takes a federated approach instead, letting independently run community servers interconnect so a personal library can be extended by following other pods. Neither has a built-in catalog or discovery engine of its own, so both suit listeners who already have a personal collection of ripped or purchased music rather than those looking for Spotify’s on-demand access to nearly any track.