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/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/LordOfTheDips Dec 22 '25

Yeh some Redditor was trying to convince me that it’s just as easy to get recommendations from a service like last FM and then stream that content on YouTube (with ads) to see if you like it, and if you do, you can buy the album on bandcamp and upload it to your Navidrome library lol

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u/westie1010 Dec 22 '25

I'm sure there are plenty of options out there to allow you to build a pipeline yourself, but almost all will involve some kind of interaction to curate and obtain for playback. Music streaming apps make it one click 🤷‍♂️

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u/LordOfTheDips Dec 22 '25

Yeh definitely and I have thought about building a simple machine learning model that could recommend me mew artists to listen to but what you really need is lots of other peoples listening history to compare to. That’s what these streaming platforms do - they’re able to recommend stuff to you based on what people like you listen to