What is auddly-server?

Auddly Music Server is a self-hosted music streaming application written in TypeScript that serves your personal music library over a REST API. It provides endpoints for browsing tracks, albums, artists, and genres; creating and managing playlists; streaming audio with on-the-fly transcoding; and integrating with Last.fm for scrobbling and artist metadata, plus Spotify for artist images. The server requires MongoDB for data storage and uses JWT-based authentication with an admin account. You can deploy it via Docker Compose (which builds the image from the GitHub repo) or build from source with Node.js and npm. The project is licensed under MIT and its latest release is v5.0.1 from August 2022, with the repository last pushed in September 2023.

Should you self-host auddly-server?

auddly-server scores 43/100 on selfhost.directory (how scoring works) and ranks #37 of 59 in Music Streaming. It has 305 GitHub stars.

There was no stable release in the past 12 months, so check the repository's recent activity before you rely on it.

Setup is moderate: expect some configuration beyond a single command. It is MIT-licensed and written mostly in Typescript.

Its closest alternative on selfhost.directory is koel (75/100, 17 320 stars). It scores higher overall, so compare the two before you pick. See auddly-server vs koel side by side.