Swing Music

Swing Music addresses the desire for a streaming-quality music experience with personal audio collections that commercial services are unable to provide. While Spotify and Apple Music offer convenience, they often lack albums due to licensing restrictions, impose audio quality limits, and require ongoing subscriptions for access to music you may have already purchased. Swing Music delivers the polished interface and smart features of commercial streaming while keeping complete control over your library and playback quality.

Common Use Cases

Music collectors stream high-quality FLAC and lossless files that commercial services either compress or do not offer at all, thereby preserving the audio fidelity of premium recordings and vinyl rips. The daily mix feature creates personalised playlists based on listening patterns, surfacing forgotten albums and ensuring variety without manual playlist curation. Audiophiles use Swing Music to stream bit-perfect audio to high-end equipment, free from the compression artifacts that streaming services introduce. Families share music libraries where each member maintains their own listening history, favourites, and personalised recommendations while drawing from a common collection. Music enthusiasts with extensive collections accumulated over decades finally have a modern interface for browsing and discovering content in their own libraries rather than relying on outdated folder-based players.

Key Features

• Modern web interface with album art and artist images
• Daily mixes generated from listening history
• Automatic metadata extraction and library organisation
• Lyrics display synchronised with playback
• Last.fm scrobbling for listening statistics
• Silence detection with crossfade for gapless playback
• Album version management for multiple releases
• Collections for grouping favourite artists and albums
• Folder view for directory-based browsing
• Multi-user support with separate profiles
• Playlist creation and management
• Queue management with shuffle and repeat
• Mobile-responsive web interface
• Dedicated Android application
• Statistics and listening history tracking

Why deploy Swing Music on Hostinger VPS

Running Swing Music on a Hostinger VPS provides streaming access to personal music collections from anywhere with the reliability and bandwidth that home servers cannot match. Unlike home network setups that struggle with upload speeds, dynamic IPs, and ISP restrictions, VPS deployment ensures consistent streaming quality whether accessing music from home, work, or while travelling. The dedicated resources handle large libraries smoothly while serving multiple simultaneous users without the performance degradation affecting home servers when family members stream concurrently. Self-hosting eliminates the monthly subscription costs of commercial streaming services while providing access to music those services don't have due to licensing restrictions. For users with carefully curated collections including rare recordings, live performances, and high-resolution audio, VPS storage provides the capacity to host entire libraries without the storage constraints of local devices.