Built for people who love music. For listeners who hear the difference, for collectors who care which master is the better master, for homes where music is more than background noise.
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 at your fingertips. 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.
The nine that matter most. The rest, tube warmth, ReplayGain, BluOS cast, lyrics, Discover Daily, live on the full feature list.
Every track in your library is scored with a TT-style dynamic range (DR) analysis. Browse by DR tier (Reference Grade DR 14+, Audiophile 11 to 13, Balanced 8 to 10, Compressed 4 to 7, Brick Walled ≤3). Spot the loudness war casualties at a glance and find the masters that actually breathe. Real math on the bytes, no cloud, no lookup.
Plug a USB CD drive into your NAS and rip discs directly through SugarSpin. Identifies the disc on MusicBrainz, writes perfect Vorbis tags (artist, album, title, track #, disc #, genre, year, release ID), embeds artwork, and drops files into your library, multi disc sets land in tidy CD 1 / CD 2 subfolders. Pick the right MusicBrainz medium automatically. Zero hand renaming.
FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAV, OGG, OPUS, AAC, M4A, MP3. Your files stream from your server to your browser or speaker untouched. No transcoding, no down sampling, no re encoding. 16 bit, 24 bit, even 24 bit / 192 kHz hi res masters arrive at the player exactly as you ripped them.
Embedded artwork extracted automatically. Missing covers? Hit one button and SugarSpin fetches them from MusicBrainz instantly.
Fully responsive web app. Use it on your desktop, tablet, or phone. Add it to your home screen for an app like experience. No app store needed.
No cloud. No telemetry. No analytics. Your music never leaves your computer. Everything runs on your own hardware, in your own home.
Auto organized by genre with beautiful colored tiles. Rock, Jazz, Hip Hop, Classical, Soundtrack... browse your collection the way it was meant to be.
Create custom playlists, mark favorites, and build your perfect listening experience. Everything persists across sessions and updates.
Control playback from your phone while audio plays on your desktop. All devices stay in sync in real time. Choose which device outputs the sound.
Stream your library straight to your dashboard. Compatible with the Subsonic API, so any app like Amperfy on iOS or Ultrasonic on Android lets you browse and play your collection from the steering wheel. Pro & Gold only.
Karaoke style scrolling, full screen Spotlight, or gentle Wave animation. Lyrics fetched from LRCLib with an automatic NetEase Cloud Music fallback for huge coverage gains on older, Asian, and indie tracks. Three animation styles. Cached forever once found.
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."
"$49 once. No subscription. Just my music, on my server, looking gorgeous. I literally showed it to everyone at our record swap last weekend. Three people bought it on the spot."
"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. No command line wizardry, no headaches. Just install, point, and press play.
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. Works on every device in your home, and beyond with Tailscale or Cloudflare Tunnel. Need more help? Check the Install Guide.
Lossless FLAC to everyday MP3, SugarSpin handles them all. Got duplicates? It automatically picks the highest quality version so you don't have to.
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 lossless library on every device in the house. It has the same beautiful interface as the streaming apps you're used to, just without the monthly bill. One payment. Done.
All prices in USD, one time, lifetime license, no subscriptions, no renewals, ever.
SugarSpin is here. Take your music back. Install free in 2 minutes, or grab a Pro or Gold license to unlock your full library.