SwingMusic
SwingMusic is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Music Streaming category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Python. It ships a Docker image. It has 2,082 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 5, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 2,082
- Forks
- 143
- Open issues
- 120
- Commits, last 12 months
- 56
- Last commit
- Oct 5, 2026
- Latest release
- v3.0.0Jun 12, 2026
- Created
- Nov 14, 2021
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 5, 2026, 56 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases6 releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 5, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 56 |
| Latest release | v3.0.0 (Jun 12, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 6 |
| Releases, all time | 34 |
| Open issues | 120 |
| Open pull requests | 10 |
| Good first issues | 1 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Nov 14, 2021 |
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About SwingMusic
Swing Music is a beautiful, self-hosted music player and streaming server for your local audio files. Like a cooler Spotify ... but bring your own music.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/swingmx/swingmusic.
Topics
- music
- python
- music-server
- self-hosted
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Is SwingMusic free and open source?
Yes. SwingMusic is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run SwingMusic with Docker?
Yes. SwingMusic provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to SwingMusic?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to SwingMusic include Navidrome Music Server, koel and Beets.
Is SwingMusic actively maintained?
The most recent commit to SwingMusic was on Oct 5, 2026 with 56 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v3.0.0, published Jun 12, 2026. It had 120 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.