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Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free

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HN · launched Mar 25, 2026 · 58 upvotes (top 15%) · 0 views

Niche: download manager utilities · 63 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -73% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Vertical SaaS
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial Creating a self-hosted web UI is simple, but retrieving DRM-free lossless audio streams by matching Spotify metadata to alternative services (like Tidal, Qobuz, or Deezer) relies on reverse-engineered private APIs.

What it would actually take: The stack typically uses Node.js or Python backend with FFmpeg and taglib. The hard parts are reverse-engineering DRM-protected content streams, token extraction for services like Deezer/Tidal/Qobuz to fetch bit-perfect FLAC audio, fuzzy metadata matching between Spotify track IDs and third-party catalogs, and maintaining circumvention against platform anti-scraping measures.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Spotizerr, YouTube Music Premium downloaders, Deezer, Tidal

Concerns raised: Spotify API reliability issues, Network errors during downloads requiring restart, YouTube link matching less reliable than Spotify, Playlist fetching incomplete (95/98 tracks from 100+)

Feature requests: Better retry mechanism and UI for network errors, FLAC support without needing separate subscriptions, YouTube Music Premium equivalent

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1221 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #170 of 1222 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 146 days after the earliest competitor.

  • hivefy · github · 2026-11-10 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.76
  • spotifusion · github · 2026-10-24 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.72
  • spotish · github · 2026-11-08 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.70
  • pluck · github · 2026-10-08 · 121 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server · hn · 2026-11-10 · 169 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • SpotLight · github · 2026-09-27 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • spotiya · github · 2026-10-22 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • spot5 · github · 2026-10-14 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.60

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