Windows
Desktop installer for personal streaming.
Coming soon
Phonolite
A free, open-source, self-hosted music streaming system for people who want ownership, reliable offline listening, and control over their own libraries.
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Planned installers for the places your library should follow you.
Downloads are being prioritized now. These cards show intended platform targets, not currently available installer files.
macOS
Desktop installer for owned libraries.
Coming soon
Linux
Desktop package for self-hosted setups.
Coming soon
iOS
Mobile app with local downloads.
Coming soon
Android
Mobile app for offline listening.
Coming soon
Mission
Personal music libraries should be powerful again.
Phonolite exists to make personal music libraries powerful again: owned, streamable, downloadable, searchable, and free from closed platform rules.
Phonolite is being built as a server, app, and client system for streaming music from a personal server computer using the digital audio library the listener already owns or manages.
why it exists
The problem is not listening. It is losing control.
Rented access
Streaming platforms can change pricing, features, recommendations, availability, and catalog access without giving listeners real control.
Weak offline playback
Downloaded music should remain available during travel, poor connectivity, server downtime, and everyday offline listening.
Messy libraries
Personal collections often need better metadata, artwork, search, and organization tools.
Closed discovery
Shuffle and recommendations should be understandable, adjustable, and based on the listener's own library.
Goals
Own the library. Keep the convenience.
Let listeners keep music on their own server, organize it their own way, and stream it without depending on a rented catalog.
Make a personal server dependable enough for everyday listening at home, remotely, and across devices.
Download tracks to devices so playback can continue when the server or network is unavailable.
Help repair metadata, artwork, artist details, album structure, and searchability as libraries grow.
Treat shuffle and discovery as serious tools for exploring the listener's own collection with more control.
Grow through real listener workflows, issue reports, patches, and transparent product decisions.
design philosophy
Open, free, community-shaped, and library first.
Open source by default
The system should be inspectable, community-shaped, and adaptable instead of behaving like a black box.
Free to use
Essential music features should not be locked behind subscriptions, upsells, or artificial feature tiers.
Library first
Browsing, searching, metadata, downloads, playback, shuffle, and discovery should all center the listener's own collection.
Reliability over gimmicks
Streaming should work, downloads should work, metadata should be fixable, and users should understand what the app is doing.
long-term vision
Streaming convenience without surrendering control.
The long-term goal is a polished personal music experience that combines streaming convenience with the freedom of a user-owned library, giving casual listeners and audiophiles the same respect.
Ownership without losing convenience
Phonolite is for listeners who want modern streaming habits without surrendering their libraries to a closed platform.
Quality without compromise
The project should respect simple collections, large archives, high-quality files, and lossless libraries alike.
Discovery without opaque algorithms
Exploration should help people rediscover forgotten songs and move through their own collections intentionally.