
DroppedNeedle
Self-hosted music request and discovery server that drives your own download clients, verifies every file, and shelves it in a library you own.
DroppedNeedle is a self-hosted music requests, discovery, and library automation server. You search the full MusicBrainz catalogue, request an album or a single track, and the built-in engine drives your own download client, scores the candidates, verifies every file (readable tags, sane duration, optional AcoustID fingerprint), and shelves the result in your library. Confident matches are auto-accepted, close calls park for review, and bad sources get quarantined so they stop winning. Failed and partial requests keep getting re-searched on their own.
Beyond requests, DroppedNeedle is a full discovery hub: trending and charts, genre browsing, recommendations built from your ListenBrainz and Last.fm history, a weekly mix that can queue up to five missing albums, new-release radar with optional auto-download, and Ticketmaster and Skiddle gig alerts for artists you follow, per user and per city. It includes a built-in web player with queue, shuffle, a 10-band EQ, embedded lyrics, and playlists that can mix Jellyfin, Navidrome, Plex, local files, YouTube, and Spotify imports in one place.
It ships as a single Docker container and connects outward to Jellyfin, Navidrome, Plex, and local files, while exposing OpenSubsonic and Jellyfin-compatible APIs so mobile apps like Symfonium, Finamp, Feishin, and Amperfy can play directly from it. Unlike paying monthly for Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube Music, you buy or fetch the files once and they stay yours; it plays nicely with the streamers you already run on your home server. A roles system (Admin, Trusted, User) with an approval queue makes it safe for a household or homelab community.









