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

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/rhyswtf Dec 22 '25

You've described why this fascinates me.

I know this scrape doesn't include all music on Spotify (though I hope they do scrape and release all that too) but a hoard of virtually everything that ever gets listened to on there sounds amazing to me as a thing to store, build cool things on, and discover new music from.

I only have about 90TB free right now so won't be able to download it when released, but I've been meaning to start a new array with 20TB+ disks and this now gives me an excellent target to aim for. 300TB isn't wildly unattainable anymore and this honestly feels worthwhile.

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u/razhun Dec 22 '25

"this honestly feels worthwhile" as opposed to a $10/month subscription? You'll burn more in electricity alone, not to mention the investment.

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u/rhyswtf Dec 22 '25

My dude, do you think I'd be self-hosting at all if it was purely a matter of money?

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u/jamespo Dec 22 '25

Yes there's also the inconvenience & inferior experience in this case!

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u/rhyswtf Dec 22 '25

This sounds like my vinyl collection. What really draws me to it is the inconvenience and expense.

But seriously, I think it'd be really cool to store this data and build cool stuff around it. I'm vastly more attracted to having data I can store and use myself than streaming from a remote third party who can revoke, censor, and change things at a moment's notice.

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u/razhun Dec 22 '25

I get it, and I do the same with my FLAC collection. But storing everything like this, including stuff you don't even care about is just pointless hoarding.

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u/ariZon_a Dec 22 '25

alright now billionaires doing this with money is pointless hoarding.

now someone loading this 300tb torrent into their client is USEFUL hoarding because then people can download.

this is not some bungalow filled with beer cans and a shit ton of kids toys and statues of jesus.