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Navidrome on VPS

Web-based music collection server and streamer — your personal Spotify

GitHub stars
24325
License
GPL-3.0
Docker
Yes
GPU
Not required

Requirements

Minimum and recommended VPS specs

Badges are attached to each value. An estimate is never presented as an official project requirement.

Navidrome hardware requirements
ResourceMinimumRecommended
RAM512MB Estimated1GB Estimated
CPU1 Estimated2 Estimated
Disk5GB EstimatedNot stated Not stated

Disk figures describe the application footprint recorded in the dataset. Personal media, documents, backups and other user data can require substantially more storage.

RunOnVPS sizing suggestion

Suggested VPS tier

1 GB RAM tier

This is our sizing suggestion, derived from Navidrome’s recommended RAM of 1GB. It is not an official requirement and it does not guarantee that every workload, plug-in set or media library will fit comfortably.

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Deployment

Docker & GPU

Docker support: Yes

GPU: Not required

Check the source notes below before assuming a GPU, transcoding workload or machine-learning feature is included in the baseline deployment.

Commercial alternative

What it can replace

Spotify

Navidrome is catalogued here as a self-hosted alternative to Spotify. Feature parity varies, so compare your required workflow before migrating.

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Source check

Important notes

Stars/license checked 2026-10-24 on the GitHub repo page. Official installation documentation (binary and Docker installs) states no RAM/CPU/disk numbers — 官方未标明,均为基于其单二进制 Go 程序 + ffmpeg 的官方 Docker 默认部署的估算; the README highlights 'very low resource usage' and multi-platform Docker images are provided. Disk is mainly the music library plus transcoding cache, excluded from the estimate baseline.

Data source: https://www.navidrome.org/_print/docs/installation/

Project repository: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

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