Swing Music

Swing Music caters to the need for a high-quality streaming music experience with personal audio collections that commercial services often can't provide. While Spotify and Apple Music offer convenience, they frequently lack albums due to licensing restrictions, impose audio quality limits, and require ongoing subscriptions for music you might have already purchased. Swing Music delivers the polished interface and smart features of commercial streaming, all while giving you complete control over your library and playback quality.

Common Use Cases

Music collectors can stream top-quality FLAC and lossless files that commercial services either compress or don't offer at all, thus preserving the original audio quality of premium recordings and vinyl rips. The daily mix feature creates personalized playlists based on listening patterns, bringing forgotten albums to light and adding variety without needing manual playlist creation. Audiophiles use Swing Music to stream crystal-clear audio to high-end equipment, free from the compression issues that streaming services often introduce. Families can share music libraries where each member keeps their individual listening history, favorites, and personalized recommendations while accessing a shared collection. Music enthusiasts with vast collections built up over decades finally get a modern interface to browse and discover content within their own libraries, instead of depending on old-fashioned 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 organization
• Lyrics display synchronized with playback
• Last.fm scrobbling for listening statistics
• Silence detection with crossfade for gapless playback
• Album version management for multiple releases
• Collections for grouping favorite 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 offers streaming access to your personal music collections from anywhere, with the reliability and bandwidth that typical home servers simply cannot match. Unlike home network setups that face challenges with upload speeds, dynamic IPs, and ISP limitations, VPS deployment guarantees consistent streaming quality, whether you're accessing music from home, work, or even while traveling. The dedicated resources manage large libraries seamlessly while catering to multiple simultaneous users, without the performance issues that affect home servers when family members stream at the same time. Self-hosting does away with the monthly subscription costs of commercial streaming services, while also giving you access to music that those services don't offer due to licensing restrictions. For users with meticulously curated collections, including rare recordings, live performances, and high-resolution audio, VPS storage offers the capacity to host entire libraries, free from the storage limitations of local devices.