Tape Music Hub

Tape Music Hub is a desktop application that turns your computer into a personal music server, letting you stream your local library to a companion phone app. If you have spent years building a music collection on your hard drive and want to access it from your phone without uploading everything to a cloud service, this is the tool for that job. It treats your existing archive as the source of truth and gives you a way to reach it from anywhere your phone has a connection. The pitch is desktop first streaming, keeping your files where they are while adding mobile access on top.

The desktop hub runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux, though Windows and Linux are currently in beta. A Docker version is also available for users who want to run the server in a container, useful if you keep your collection on a NAS or a home server rather than a daily driver machine. The application reads your existing folder structure and metadata without forcing you to reorganize anything. It sits on top of your archive rather than replacing it, so your original file layout stays intact. You do not rebuild or re import your library; it discovers what you already have and indexes it. If you have spent hours organizing files into genre folders or year subfolders, none of that work gets thrown away.

For DJs, the import support goes deeper than generic folder scanning. Tape Music Hub reads directly from Rekordbox, Traktor, and Serato, so your crates and playlists carry over with the metadata and organization you built in your DJ software. Hot cues, BPM, key tags, and other prep work travel with the tracks. It also supports Apple Music and iTunes libraries, plus M3U and XSPF playlist formats. The idea is to meet you where your collection already lives rather than asking you to migrate to a new structure or tag system. If you already put the work in, the app respects that.

On the phone side, the companion app mirrors your folders and playlists for browsing, searching, and queueing. You can stream over the same WiFi network or remotely over the internet when you are away from home. The phone app is available for both iOS and Android. Browsing feels like a normal music player, but the files live on your desktop, not on your phone or in a cloud. You are not downloading copies to your device; you are streaming from your own hardware. You can also prepare playlists on your phone and export them back to your desktop for DJ software via drag and drop, which closes the loop between mobile prep and live sets. If you hear a track on the go and want to add it to a crate for your next gig, that workflow is supported.

Shared playlists between multiple Music Hub installations are supported, so if you have a second computer or a collaborator you can sync curation across devices. Invite other Music Hub users and collaborate on playlists that reference the libraries on their own hubs. This is useful for DJ crews who want to share track selections without passing files around manually or syncing massive folders. Each person's library stays on their own machine, but the playlist metadata can be shared and referenced.

The product is aimed at DJs, collectors, and anyone with a large local library who prefers ownership over subscription. Spotify and Apple Music solve discovery, but they do not solve the case where you have ten thousand tracks you ripped yourself, tagged yourself, and organized into folders that make sense to you. Tape Music Hub sits in that gap, giving you streaming access to your personal archive without handing files to a third party. For collectors who have invested in lossless formats or rare releases that are not available on streaming services, this preserves your access to that material on the go.

The architecture does require your desktop to be powered on and networked while streaming, since it is the server, not just a sync client. That is the tradeoff for keeping everything local. If your computer sleeps or loses its connection, the phone app loses access until it comes back online. For users who want always on access, the Docker option makes it possible to run the hub on a dedicated home server or NAS that stays powered up.

Pricing is tiered. Streaming on the same WiFi network is free forever with no time limit or payment required. Remote streaming outside your home costs three dollars a month, cancellable anytime. A lifetime early bird deal is available at ninety nine dollars, regularly one hundred forty nine, or you can pay twenty dollars a month for five months if you prefer to spread the cost. The remote license binds to one desktop hub, so if you want to serve from multiple computers you would need additional licenses. For anyone who has already invested in hardware and storage for their collection, this is a reasonable ask to unlock mobile access without renting space on someone else's cloud.