Open Source Music & Audio Apps
Open source music and audio apps you can run yourself: AI song generators, audio editors, music streaming servers and text-to-speech. Compare and self-host.
Apps in Music & Audio
Language
License
Navidrome
File Storage · Music Audio
Run your own personal Spotify — stream your entire music collection from any device, anywhere, forever.
VoiceStudio
Mcp · Music Audio · Voice AI
Open-source, fully local ElevenLabs alternative for voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription and audiobooks, with a local API and MCP server for agents.
YuE2 Studio
Mcp · Music Audio
Windows desktop studio that runs the YuE2 song model on your own NVIDIA GPU: it writes an editable sheet-music score first, then sings it as a full song with vocals, offline, with covers, LoRA training and an MCP server for agents.
fish-speech
AI Development · Developer Tools · Music Audio
SOTA open-source dual-autoregressive text-to-speech model with rapid voice cloning, inline emotion tags, and real-time streaming inference across 80+ languages.
AudioMass
Design Tools · Music Audio
A free, full-featured web-based audio and waveform editor that runs entirely in the browser — no plugins, no installs, just open and edit.
About Music & Audio
Audio is one of the areas where open source has caught up quickly. You can now generate full songs with vocals on your own GPU, edit waveforms in a browser tab, or stream your whole music library from a small server, without a subscription or an upload.
What these tools do. The category spans three jobs: making audio (song and speech generation), shaping it (editors, mastering, stem work), and playing it (streaming servers and libraries). Some apps combine several of these.
What to weigh when choosing. Check the licence of the app and of any model it downloads, because generative audio tools often ship MIT code with non-commercial model weights. Check the hardware: local generation usually needs a capable GPU, while editors and streaming servers run on almost anything. Look at how much of the workflow stays local, since some apps offer optional cloud providers. Finally, consider format support and how easily your files move in and out.
