Host Navidrome without installing anything
Your record collection as personal streaming: the files exactly as you filed them, and the app of your choice on the phone.
Starting at €4.99/month
Introduction
Navidrome installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. You install nothing and configure no server: the application is online a few minutes after you order, under your own name.
The plan that suits it is App Essentiel at €4.99/month incl. VAT — 2 GB of memory. Navidrome is a Go binary on a SQLite database: streaming a track costs it almost nothing, since it simply serves the file. The moment it works is the scan: it opens every file, reads its tags, extracts the cover art. 512 MB is enough day to day; the 2 GB absorb the indexing of a library of several tens of thousands of tracks.
One thing to know before ordering: Navidrome never modifies your files and offers no upload from its interface. It reads what the folder it watches contains, with the tags found there. In exchange, it speaks the Subsonic API, which opens a whole fleet of apps you may already have: Symfonium, substreamer, Amperfy, DSub, Tempo or Feishin connect with your instance address.
What Navidrome does
A Subsonic API, and therefore twenty apps
Symfonium and Tempo on Android, Amperfy and play:Sub on iOS, Feishin on the desktop: the choice of player is yours, and listening history follows from one device to the next.
Your files, served as they are
MP3, FLAC, OGG, Opus, AAC, WavPack: the track leaves in its original format, with no re-encoding. When the connection is narrow, on-the-fly transcoding can be set per player, without ever touching the stored file.
Playlists, including automatic ones
The ordinary kind, the .m3u files already present in the library, and smart playlists built on criteria — sixties jazz never yet played, for instance.
Let someone listen without an account
An album or a track can be given a public link with a time limit. And for those who care about it, plays report automatically to Last.fm or ListenBrainz.
Who uses it, and what for
Someone who has ripped twenty years of records
Eight hundred albums in FLAC, found by artist, by year or by tag, listened to at their original quality rather than in a streaming service's compressed version.
A household where everyone listens to something else
One account each: favourites, playlists and history do not mix, and nobody skews anyone else's suggestions.
A musician sharing demos
A time-limited public link sent to the producer or the label, without going through a platform that compresses the file and keeps a copy.
A dance or fitness instructor
The class tracks arranged into playlists, started from the phone on the room's speaker, without depending on a commercial service's connection or an advertising break.
Someone living or travelling abroad
The library stays reachable wherever the person is, with no catalogue that varies by country and no track vanishing because a licence expired.
Hosted in France
In our own datacentre in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which we operate ourselves. A collection built over twenty years deserves better than a subscription one can forget to pay.
Frequently asked questions
Any that speak the Subsonic API, and there are many: Symfonium, Tempo, DSub and Ultrasonic on Android, Amperfy, play:Sub and substreamer on iOS, Feishin and Sonixd on the desktop. You enter the instance address, a username and a password. The built-in web player handles the rest when you are in front of a browser.
No. Navidrome reads MP3, FLAC, OGG, Opus, AAC and WavPack among others, and serves the original file untouched — a FLAC stays a FLAC. When the connection cannot keep up, on-the-fly transcoding can be enabled for a given player: it is the stream that is lightened, not the file kept on disk.
So will the library be, and that is worth knowing before starting. Navidrome reads tags and never writes them: it does not modify your files, which is a guarantee but also a constraint. The cleaning is done beforehand, with MusicBrainz Picard or beets, which fill in artist, album, track number and cover art; a new scan then puts everything in place.
App Essentiel, at €4.99/month incl. VAT. It provides 2 GB of memory where the application asks for 512 MB at minimum: the headroom serves the system, not the decor. You can change plan later without reinstalling.
Yes, they are part of the service. A self-hosted application left un-updated is a security risk, not a saving.