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Your music streaming, hosted in France

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The Spotify of your collection powered by Black Candy, installed and maintained by DINAO. Your tracks stay on our French servers — streamable anywhere, on browser or mobile.

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Hosted in FranceYour collection, your serveriOS, Android & F-Droid AppsGDPR CompliantOfficial publisher image
Overview

What is Black Candy?

Black Candy is a self-hosted personal music streaming server, written in Ruby on Rails. It allows you to host your own music collection and listen to it from anywhere, via a dynamic web interface (Hotwire) or dedicated mobile apps.

It supports numerous audio formats (MP3, M4A, OGG, OGA, Opus, FLAC, WMA, WAV) without re-encoding, and automatically fetches album covers and artist photos via the Discogs API. Multi-user management with administration allows sharing the server among multiple listeners.

Official apps are available for iOS, Android, and F-Droid. Technically, Black Candy runs with a SQLite database by default or PostgreSQL, and deploys easily via Docker / docker-compose.

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Host Black Candy at DINAO

Resource tiers compatible with Black Candy prerequisites (minimum 1 vCPU / 512 Mo / 2 Go). Hosted in France, fully managed.

Application available on a dedicated VPS

This application requires privileged access to the host machine, incompatible with managed shared hosting. It is installed on a dedicated VPS server where you keep full control — managed by DINAO.

Technical reason: bind-mount d'un chemin hôte (volumes nommés uniquement en managé).

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Requirements for Black Candy: 1 vCPU, 512 Mo, 2 Go. Our Docker VPS at €11 excl. VAT per month covers them.

Under the hood

Technical details

vCPU
1 vCPU
ideal : 2 vCPU
Memory
512 Mo
ideal : 1 Go
Disk
2 Go
ideal : 5 Go
Image : ghcr.io/blackcandy-org/blackcandy:latest Registry : ghcr.io Services : blackcandy Ports : 3000
Music Streaming category

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FAQ

You might be wondering…

Which audio formats are supported?

Black Candy plays MP3, M4A, OGG, OGA, Opus, FLAC, WMA, and WAV formats without re-encoding. You upload your files as-is and they become immediately streamable.

Can I listen to my music on my phone?

Yes. Official apps exist for iOS, Android, and F-Droid, in addition to the web interface accessible from any browser.

Is my listening data exploited?

No. No advertising profiling or resale: your collection and listening habits remain private on your instance hosted in France.

How many users can I create?

Black Candy is multi-user with administration. The number of users depends on your tier, up to an unlimited number on the Enterprise plan.

Can I retrieve my collection if I leave?

Yes. Your music files belong to you and remain exportable at any time — no proprietary lock-in.