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Tonearm

Streams your music collection to a wide ecosystem of compatible apps

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12 AUG 2025
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Tonearm serves a personal music library over an open streaming API, so dozens of existing mobile and desktop clients work with it out of the box. It ships as a single binary with an embedded database.

Worth knowing before you commit:

  • Runs comfortably on a single-board computer or the smallest VPS you own.
  • Smart playlists are powerful but configured in a query language, not a UI.
  • Multi-user support includes per-user play counts and favorites.

A good first music server: small footprint, huge client choice.

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