This Docker Compose configuration sets up Swing Music with a Tailscale sidecar container, enabling secure access to your self-hosted music streaming server over your private Tailscale network. With this setup, your Swing Music instance remains private and accessible only from authorized devices on your Tailnet.
Swing Music is a fast, beautiful, self-hosted music player and streaming server for your local audio collection. It offers a modern browser-based interface to browse, search, and stream your own music—without relying on third-party cloud services or exposing your library publicly.
- 🎧 Daily Mixes – Automatically generated mixes based on your listening habits.
- 🎼 Local Music Streaming – Stream your own audio files directly from your server.
- 🧹 Metadata Normalization – Keeps your music library clean and consistent.
- 💿 Album Version Grouping – Smart grouping of deluxe, remastered, or alternate album versions.
- 🧭 Related Artists & Albums – Discover similar music within your own library.
- 📁 Folder-Based Browsing – Explore your collection by folder structure.
- 📝 Playlist Management – Create and manage playlists from the web interface.
- ✨ Modern Web UI – Clean, fast, and responsive interface for desktop and mobile browsers.
- 🔎 Fuzzy Search & Duplicate Detection – Quickly find music and handle duplicates.
Self-hosting Swing Music gives you full ownership of your music library, complete privacy, and independence from subscription-based streaming services. When paired with Tailscale, your music server is never exposed to the public internet, yet remains securely accessible from anywhere.
In this deployment, a Tailscale sidecar container (for example tailscale-swingmusic) runs the Tailscale client and joins your private Tailscale network. The main swingmusic service uses:
network_mode: service:tailscale-swingmusic
This configuration routes all traffic through the Tailscale interface, ensuring the Swing Music web UI and streaming endpoints are accessible only via your Tailscale network. This keeps your music library secure while allowing seamless access from all your trusted devices.