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Swing Music

Blazingly fast, beautiful, self-hosted music streaming server for your own library

Alternative to: spotify, apple music


About Versions (34)

v3.0.0

2026-06-12

Introduces redesigned Now Playing and Lyrics screens, improved Docker support, a new installer script, and various sorting enhancements and bug fixes.

v2.1.10

2026-04-26

Added installer scripts for Linux/Mac, a redesigned Now Playing screen, improved sorting, and Blurhash support, alongside various bug fixes.

v2.1.4

2026-01-18

This release includes a path traversal vulnerability patch, various bug fixes for user IDs and admin roles, a Windows crash fix, and improvements to artist and album classification.

v2.1.3

2025-12-07

This release fixes a bug that prevented the server from running due to a misconfigured web client.

v2.1.2

2025-12-07

Fixed a bug where a misconfigured web client prevented the server from running.

v2.1.1

2025-12-07

This release fixes a bug that prevented the server from running due to a misconfigured web client.

v2.1.0

2025-12-01

This release fixes a critical security vulnerability that prevented authenticated users from downloading arbitrary files from the host server via the streaming endpoint.

v2.0.9

2025-08-14

Stats cards now use album or artist accent colors, and various bugs related to track metadata, playback, and UI visibility have been fixed.

v2.0.8

2025-06-18

This update includes bug fixes for thumbnails and backups, adds backup and restore support for collections, and optimizes artist name splitting and color extraction.

v2.0.7

2025-05-27

Fixed an issue with parsing malformed explicit tags.

v2.0.6

2025-05-11

Fixed bugs related to multiprocessing.

v2.0.5

2025-05-10

Fixed Swing Music binary launch failures and introduced new builds for Mac ARM64 and Mac Intel.

v2.0.3

2025-04-05

Introduces Apple Metal builds, fixes a Linux memory leak and a multiprocessing bug, and improves CLI help text and webclient UI.

v2.0.2

2025-03-14

Fixed Windows indexing errors and homepage favorites card visibility, and optimized audio silence processing by switching from threads to processes.

v2.0.1

2025-03-02

Fixed a bug that prevented login using the default admin user.

v2.0.0

2025-03-01

v2.0.0 introduces a multi-user authentication system, Last.fm integration, listening statistics, a new pairing mechanism for Android, and various UI improvements and bug fixes.

v2.0.0.beta13

2025-01-31

Introduces Pages for organizing albums and artists, adds Arm64 binary builds, enables right-click context menus for cards, and includes various bug fixes.

v2.0.0.beta12

2025-01-10

Fixed issues with embedded thumbnails, track indexing AttributeErrors, and added error logging for favorites.

v2.0.0.beta11

2025-01-07

Introduces image fallback, improved LastFM scrobbling with offline support, explicit track labels, and updates the home API endpoint.

v2.0.0.beta10

2024-12-30

This beta release introduces a multi-user system, personalized music mixes, Last.fm integration, detailed listening statistics, and an updated homepage.

v1.4.8

2024-02-26

Version 1.4.8 introduces a new alternate layout, a top-bar search feature, a migration to the Waitress WSGI server, and various UI and bug fixes.

v1.4.7

2024-01-20

Fixed bugs related to Chrome PWA window coloring, volume persistence during track changes, and track skipping during restarts.

v1.4.6

2024-01-15

This release introduces silence removal, experimental crossfading, automatic track preloading, and various UI improvements alongside several bug fixes.

v1.4.5

2023-12-19

Hidden recent items on the homepage when no items are available for display.

v1.4.4

2023-12-14

Version 1.4.4 introduces a new homepage, improved library browsing for artists and albums, expanded search integrations, and various UI and bug fixes.

v1.4.3

2023-12-12

Introduces a new homepage, library browsing for artists and albums, listening activity tracking, and various UI improvements and bug fixes.

v1.4.2

2023-11-26

Fixed issues with late API starting and tracks failing to play on album pages.

v1.4.1

2023-11-25

This release introduces client code enhancements by splitting the queue store into separate stores and adds an About page to settings.

v1.4.0

2023-11-14

Introduced synced lyrics support with an experimental lyrics finder plugin and streaming platform search options, along with several bug fixes.

v1.3.1

2023-10-21

Patch release fixing a ValueError related to decompressed data size when processing images with large album covers.

v1.3.0

2023-10-16

Swing Music v1.3.0 introduces a major UI redesign, mobile PWA support, related artists and albums, and expanded playlist functionality, while dropping support for Ubuntu 18.

v1.2.0

2023-03-27

This update introduces a playlist header redesign, various UI enhancements, and fixes for queue behavior and app startup performance.

v1.1.0

2023-02-17

Added Windows support, custom root directory scanning, improved music metadata extraction and album categorization, and a redesigned client UI with various bug fixes.

linux-beta

2023-01-15

Initial beta release for Linux, compatible with Debian 10 and newer, including Ubuntu 18.04 and later.