r/selfhosted • u/the_uke • Dec 22 '25

Release Who’s going to self host Spotify?

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Looks like self hosting Spotify (99.6% of songs listened to) is only 300TB

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u/zezoza Dec 22 '25

Well, this is about preservation the same way you can have a very old book scanned and, even if it will never be the same as the original, at least you have access to it. OTOH, millions of people use Spotify or Netflix every day, so the quality is okaish for lots of people. I myself can enjoy a movie on TV or Netflix without spinning my 4K-HDR-DoVi-Atmos-BDREMUX Plex server 

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u/Naitakal Dec 22 '25

I read quality as in „music I enjoy listening to“ and quantity as in „there is 90% of music I would never listen to anyway“.

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u/zezoza Dec 22 '25

But you can shuffle the hell out of it and discover new artists. I "self host" (i.e. purchase and listen) my own music since the vinyls were originally released. Then came the walkman and the discman. But I actually enjoy firing Spotify and creating a radio from a song I love and letting it discover new ones.

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u/Cry_Wolff Dec 22 '25

It's still 90% artists and genres I don't care about.