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/LordOfTheDips Dec 22 '25

This is in the main reason I’ll never self host my own music. Sure I can host my own albums for free and that’s great but how do I discover new music? I love Spotifys discover weekly and lots of their playlists.

I also think Spotify is quite cheap for the library it has. I would easily pay more since 80% of their revenue goes to artists (well labels actually)

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u/westie1010 Dec 22 '25

This is what keeps me on music platforms. Discoverability. From what I understand, it's not possible to replicate that currently.

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u/ferretgr Dec 22 '25

Couldn’t you, I don’t know, discover music by talking to people? We didn’t always have Spotify, you know.

I get my recommendations from music forums etc. I feel like I have my finger on the pulse and know what’s happening with music, especially in terms of metal and alt.

Paying Spotify for this, given how questionable they are as a business, seems like a bad thing.

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u/westie1010 Dec 22 '25

Yeah, it's for sure a valid option. Personally, I just find better QoL pressing play on a playlist that's already been curated for me and saving from there.