Black Candy

Black Candy is a self-hosted web application for managing and streaming your personal music library. It scans a local music directory, builds a browsable catalog from tags/metadata, and provides a web player for playback.

Key Features

• Music library indexing by reading audio metadata (artists, albums, tracks)
• Web-based music player with playback queue and library browsing
• Search across the music catalog
• Playlist creation and management
• Album/artist pages generated from library metadata
• Background scanning/import of files from a configured music directory

Use Cases

• Run a private “Spotify-like” web player for your own local music collection
• Centralize a household music library on a server/NAS and stream on the LAN/VPN
• Replace a third-party streaming account for listening to owned/ripped music

Limitations and Considerations

• Focused on a web UI; feature parity with mature Subsonic-style ecosystems (wide client support, offline sync) may be limited depending on your needs.

Black Candy is a lightweight option for people who primarily want a clean web interface for streaming and browsing a local collection. It is best suited for small-to-medium libraries where tag-based organization and simple playlists cover most listening workflows.