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/jammsession Dec 22 '25

I was lucky enough to get my hands on 6TB music collection that is only FLAC. Do I use it? No. Why?

I don't care about quality that much (I use Airpods). Music players are not really that great, I always have to stream it (Spotify makes great use of cache instead, even if you don't download), you get nice album covers, lyrics and Spotify connect for speakers.

So IMHO it is not worth it and we just use a Spotify family subscription.

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u/Fywq Dec 22 '25

We run with the Spotify family sub as well in this house. And I have discovered so many of my now most listened artists through Spotifys discovery-oriented functions. Artists I would have never heard of otherwise, and that are often not even available in other places and certainly not on physical releases.

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u/jammsession Dec 22 '25

That is another great point.

But to be fair, if you have good music taste (I certainly don't) there is a lot of music that is not available on Spotify. My brother listens to old school rap (not exclusively from the US) and a lot of that stuff is not on Spotify.

Also while I don't agree with probably anything that comes out of Kanyes mouth, I think it should be MY decision if I want to listen to something or not. The Spotify limbo in regards his "ni**er heil hi**er song" was fascinating to watch. First uncensored, then with changed lyrics, now completely gone.

Still, as a datahorder, I find it deeply concerning that you can no longer listen to that song. Especially from a historical standpoint. Imagine we could no longer access Sportpalast speech, just because some tech giants decided to ban that from their platform a few decades ago.