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mebtte/cicada

🎵 💻 📱 A multi-user music service for self-hosting. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/mebtte/cicada · TypeScript · GPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

98/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 98
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 7.0
  • age_days: 1907
  • days_rel: 13
  • days_push: 13
  • n_releases_24m: 13

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1109 stars · 78 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Cicada is a self-hosted, multi-user music streaming service distributed as a single binary with an embedded PWA frontend and bundled ffmpeg. It supports multiple users with 2FA, shared playlists (musicbills), and lyrics/composer metadata.

Use cases

  • self-host my own music streaming server
  • share a music library with family across devices
  • stream my local music collection to phone via web app
  • multi-user music service with 2FA
  • replace Spotify with my own hosted music

When to choose

  • you want a lightweight single-binary self-hosted music server
  • you need multi-user accounts with sharing and 2FA
  • you prefer a PWA over installing native apps

When to avoid

  • you need transcoding-heavy large-scale streaming like Plex/Jellyfin
  • you want desktop-native player features or offline sync
  • you need integration with existing music metadata services

Facets

application · maturity active

audio-processing http-server auth self-hosted media self-hosted web-development self-hosted cross-platform windows music-streaming pwa multi-user ffmpeg media-server typescript docker web-server linux macos

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
mebtte/cicadamain98

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="mebtte/cicada")

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