Stretto
Music player with Youtube/Soundcloud import and iTunes/Spotify discovery.
Little to no recent activity. Treat as unmaintained until proven otherwise.
Commit activity more than 8% of tracked projects; popularity more than 27%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 635 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 2.0.0 · 28 Jan 2019 |
| Repo updated | 9 Jul 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | Nodejs |
Is Stretto actively maintained?
Stretto is under active development: 15 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 2 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
The last tagged release, 2.0.0, is over 7 years old. If you deploy, expect to build from the default branch rather than a stable tag.
Note that Stretto depends on a third-party service to work fully. It is self-hosted, but not self-contained: if that external service changes its terms or disappears, your instance is affected.
Stretto ranks #25 of 28 tracked media streaming - audio streaming projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What Stretto actually does
Stretto is an audio streaming application built with Node.js that incorporates music discovery features linked to external platforms like iTunes and Spotify. It also provides functionality to import tracks from sources including YouTube and Soundcloud. The software is released under the MIT licence and relies on community contributions for its ongoing development.
Best fit: It suits users who want a self-hosted audio player that aggregates tracks from various online streaming and discovery services into a single interface.
Worth knowing: The latest tagged release dates back to early 2019 and the project has a low maintenance health score, meaning you may encounter unpatched bugs or broken integrations with external APIs.
Deployment notes
Since it runs on Node.js, you will typically need to provision a persistent environment, manage dependencies using npm or yarn, and place it behind a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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