opensource.builders Deezer / Spotify / Napster

Music streaming platforms

Jun 13 '20 21:06 r3b00tl00p

Tidal is another closed-source one, but I am not aware of any FOSS music streaming platforms...

Aug 25 '20 06:08 ghost

Closest thing I can think of is https://resonate.is/

It's a music streaming coop. It looks at least part of their tech is open source though they aren't primarily focusing on that so IDK where the repo is for it: https://resonate.is/going-beyond-the-app-store-model/

Aug 27 '20 00:08 jcklpe

Yeah, and the song availability seems to be kinda "meh".

I guess there are foss mp3 players/clients (jellyfin, mstream, etc.) but those aren't really direct competition because those are all bring-your-own-music.

Aug 28 '20 05:08 ghost

Yeah availability is going to be a problem almost no matter what as the actual songs and intellectual property aren't open source, kind of by nature. Closet thing would perhaps be for someone to build some kind of streaming service that utilized bittorrent on the backend, sorta like how Popcorn Time used to work

Sep 02 '20 00:09 jcklpe

Looks like there used to be a thing like that in 2015 called Aurous but it was shut down by the RIAA. If it was open source I don't understand how it was shut down though. I'm doing more googling on the matter.

Sep 02 '20 00:09 jcklpe

This could have potential: https://github.com/IrosTheBeggar/mStream

Sep 02 '20 00:09 jcklpe

This? Federated (using ActivityPub), btw https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale

Also know about this (but never used it) https://github.com/airsonic/airsonic

Oct 04 '20 11:10 zamgreg

Another one powered by ActivityPub: https://reel2bits.org

Oct 08 '20 18:10 zamgreg

Thanks @zamgreg these are great. Really interesting seeing a Fediverse solution to this stuff.

Oct 10 '20 23:10 jcklpe