Your music. Your collection. Your server. Built for collectors who own their music, not rent it.
Desktop, iPad, iPhone, web. Same beautiful interface, same lossless library, streamed from your own NAS.
Recently played, daily mix, favorites, all one click away the moment you open the app.
Full screen artist photos, a real scrubbable waveform, and the track's format and dynamic range on display. Hit Showtime.
Your real album artwork on a spinning record. Click anywhere on the vinyl to seek.
Photoreal vacuum tubes glowing amber over a warm bokeh field. One of several immersive Now Playing views.
Karaoke scroll, full screen Spotlight, or gentle Wave. Fetched and cached for every song that has them.
Big covers, tidy grids, decades and genres, all a click away. Smart categories auto organize your collection.
Hand pick your tracks, save your favorites, build playlists that last forever, not just for this month’s subscription.
Native iOS shell with lock screen Now Playing, CarPlay, and AirPlay wired in. Free with every license.
Top artists, most played tracks, listening time. Your data, on your server, nobody is selling it.
Runs in Docker on Synology, QNAP, UGREEN, Unraid, TrueNAS, or any Mac, Windows, or Linux box.
Three more places to dig in.
I’m old school. I collect vinyl, cassettes, MiniDiscs, reel to reel, and I love the tactile of it. Dropping the needle. Pulling a record from its sleeve. Watching the tonearm track the groove. I built SugarSpin as a hybrid: to bring some of that feeling into a digital world that mostly forgot about it. Drag the tonearm to seek. Watch your real album art spin. It’s not the real thing, but it’s the closest I can get.
And I rip it all to digital too. Tapes degrade. Vinyl warps. One flood ends a collection forever. The originals stay home on the shelf where they belong; the digital copy goes everywhere you do. You can’t take a reel to reel on the bus. You can take SugarSpin.
Real collectors. Real libraries. Real reactions.
"I have 4TB of FLAC on my Synology and nothing played it beautifully until SugarSpin. The vinyl view alone is worth the price. My wife actually uses it now too."
"Cancelled my big name lossless subscription after three years. All my music was already on my hard drive, and SugarSpin made it feel like the slick streaming app I used to pay for. Install took two minutes."
"The vinyl view with the spinning record and tonearm is gorgeous. I put it on my TV while listening and it feels like having a turntable without the maintenance. Beautiful work."
"I tried a few of the popular self hosted players first. They're fine for video, but none of them treated music with this kind of care. The album art, the categories, the obvious attention to detail, this was clearly built by somebody who actually listens."
"One payment. No subscription. Just my music, on my server, looking gorgeous. I literally showed it to everyone at our record swap last weekend."
"Set it up on my Synology, added it to my phone's home screen, and haven't opened the big streaming app since. The VU meters are pure ear candy. It feels like owning a hi fi rig."
SugarSpin runs anywhere Docker runs, a NAS, a Mac, a Windows PC, or a Linux box. Once Docker is set up, it's one command to install, then point it at your music and press play. No plugins to hunt down, no player to assemble.
Install Docker on your NAS, Mac, Windows PC, or Linux machine. Then pull the SugarSpin image. One command, one container.
Open your browser, go to your server's address, and create your account. Then head to Settings, you'll find a clickable link to your music library right there. One click scans and indexes your entire collection.
Your library is live. Browse albums, artists, and genres, queue up tracks, and enjoy on devices that can reach your SugarSpin server. Optional access away from home must be configured separately by the server owner. Need more help? Check the Install Guide.
Native shells around the SugarSpin interface. Tiny, fast, with lock screen Now Playing, CarPlay, AirPlay, and proper menu bars wired in.
Streaming services cost more every year, and at the end of it you don't own a single song. SugarSpin plays your personal library on every device in the house. It looks and feels like the streaming apps you're used to, just without the monthly bill. One payment. Done.
All prices in USD. One-time purchase, perpetual license — includes all updates for the current major version; future major versions may be offered as optional paid upgrades. No subscriptions, no renewals.
SugarSpin is here. Take your music back. Install free, or grab a Pro or Gold license for a bigger library.