Your music, your server
Songloft is a self-hosted music server for individuals: fully own your data, extend with plugins, play everywhere — for music you legally own.
Default admin / admin is for local testing only — set a strong password before exposing it.
Deploy once, listen everywhere
Core features
A music experience built around ownership
A lightweight Go backend paired with polished cross-platform clients.
Your local library, fully in hand
Scan local folders and auto-detect MP3 / FLAC / WAV / APE / OGG / Opus / M4A / M4B / WMA audio and MP4 / MKV / FLV / MPG video formats — covers, lyrics and metadata included. Changes sync in real time.
- All common formats
- Covers · lyrics · tags
- Auto change sync
Immersive now playing
Colors are extracted live from album art so every track gets its own mood. Background playback with lock-screen and notification controls.
- Live color from art
- Background & media controls
- Headset · lock screen
Organize with playlists
Create playlists freely and manage local and remote tracks together, with built-in Favorites and one-tap play-all.
- Local + remote unified
- Internet radio streams
- One-tap play all
Light, dark & every platform
Switch light and dark themes, or follow the system. One Flutter client runs on Android / iOS / macOS / Windows / Linux / Web.
- Light · dark · system
- One codebase, 6 platforms
- Web UI out of the box
Extend it with plugins
Run JS plugins in a QuickJS sandbox to add sources, metadata and device control — with a permission model, hot-reload and health checks.
- QuickJS sandbox
- Permissions + hot-reload
- Full REST API + Swagger
Interface
Clean and usable on every screen
Light or dark, desktop or mobile — it just looks good.
Get started
Choose how to install
Binary, Docker, Bundle, clients and big screens — there is one for you.
On macOS run `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ./songloft` before first launch.
Need step-by-step details? See the Quick Start docs
💚 A labor of love
Free forever · Beware of scams
Songloft is a fully free, open-source project built purely out of passion — with no commercial interest whatsoever.
- ✅ Free forever: no paid features, in-app purchases, or subscriptions
- ✅ No ads: no advertising or commercial promotion of any kind
- ✅ No sponsorship / donations: there is no payment channel at all
- ⚠️ Beware of scams: anyone charging fees, selling copies, offering paid deployment, or soliciting donations in Songloft’s name is unrelated to this project
The only official channels are the GitHub repository, the docs site, the official WeChat group, the Telegram group, and the Telegram channel; we never charge anyone, not even inside the group. Please stay alert to scams.
GitHub repo · Docs site · WeChat group · Telegram group · Telegram channel
Plugin ecosystem
Push the limits with plugins
JS plugins run in a QuickJS sandbox to add audio sources, metadata and device control — permissions, hot-reload and health checks all automatic.
Community
Third-party clients
These third-party clients are independently maintained by community developers and support connecting to Songloft servers.
⚖️ Compliance & copyright
Songloft helps you manage music you legally own. Before using it, please note:
- It ships and distributes no copyrighted music content
- Manage only music you legally own (purchased / self-recorded / public domain / CC)
- Third-party plugins are community-maintained; source copyright is the user’s responsibility
- For personal, non-commercial use; no user data is collected
Ready to own your music server?
Up and running in minutes — your data stays with you.