Navidrome

Navidrome caters to the need for personal music streaming without the drawbacks of commercial services, where monthly subscription costs keep piling up indefinitely, library availability is subject to licensing agreements that can remove albums without prior intimation, and audio quality is compressed to cut down on bandwidth costs instead of maintaining the fidelity that listeners who've invested in high-quality recordings anticipate. By self-hosting music streaming, users retain permanent access to purchased music, ripped CDs, and downloaded content irrespective of licensing changes, service shutdowns, or policy alterations that impact commercial platforms.

Common Use Cases

Music collectors stream personal libraries of purchased albums, ripped CDs, and curated downloads from anywhere, instead of being restricted to listening at home where physical media or local files reside. This allows them to access decades of collected music from work, while travelling, or at friends' places without lugging around devices packed with huge music libraries. Audiophiles stream high-quality FLAC and lossless files that commercial streaming services don't provide at similar quality levels, maintaining the audio fidelity that premium recordings offer, while also getting the convenience of streaming access without quality degradation from lossy compression or loudness normalization that streaming services implement. Families share music servers where parents and children keep separate playlists and listening histories while using a shared library, bypassing the multiple subscription charges that commercial services demand for family plans, all while keeping everyone's preferences independently managed. DJs and music professionals organize their working libraries of tracks for performances, accessing collections from venue sound systems, rehearsal spaces, or mobile setups without having to carry drives loaded with music files to every single location. Podcast listeners organize downloaded episodes alongside music, using Navidrome's playlist features to line up content for commutes or workouts without depending on podcast apps that might get discontinued, alter features, or lose downloaded content during updates. International users access personal libraries irrespective of geographic licensing restrictions that render content unavailable on streaming services in specific regions, ensuring consistent access to music collections while travelling or relocating.

Key Features

• Web-based music player interface
• Subsonic API for mobile app compatibility
• Support for MP3, FLAC, AAC, OGG, OPUS formats
• On-the-fly transcoding for bandwidth adaptation
• Automatic metadata extraction and organization
• Album art display and management
• Playlist creation and sharing
• Multi-user support with separate libraries
• Smart playlists based on criteria
• Scrobbling to Last.fm and ListenBrainz
• ReplayGain support for volume normalisation
• Lyrics display
• Star ratings and favourites
• Recently played and added views
• Genre and year browsing

Why deploy Navidrome on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Navidrome on Hostinger VPS provides music streaming from data centre infrastructure with reliable uptime and bandwidth that home servers behind residential internet connections cannot match, ensuring music remains accessible even when home networks experience outages, ISP maintenance, or the dynamic IP changes that disrupt self-hosted services on residential connections. Unlike cloud music services that analyse listening habits for advertising profiles and recommendation algorithms that prioritise promoted content over user preferences, self-hosted Navidrome keeps listening history completely private without any data transmission to third parties. The VPS deployment enables streaming to multiple devices simultaneously without the upload bandwidth limitations that residential connections impose when family members stream from different locations concurrently. Self-hosting eliminates the perpetual subscription costs of commercial music services that accumulate to significant amounts over years while providing inferior access to personal libraries compared to streaming services' rotating catalogues. For users with large music collections accumulated over decades of purchases and curation, VPS storage provides scalable capacity that grows with collections without the device storage constraints that limit local playback options. The Subsonic API compatibility means investment in mobile apps carries forward regardless of server changes, avoiding the lock-in that proprietary streaming services create when accumulated playlists and listening history become inaccessible after cancellation.