Beets Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Beets hosting and run a self-hosted music library manager that tags, organises and catalogs your collection from MusicBrainz data, on your own domain. xCloud starts the pinned LinuxServer image behind a Caddy gateway that asks for a username and password on every request, mounts volumes for config, music and downloads and publishes it over HTTPS. You import music from the command line, not the browser.

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What is Beets?

Beets is a media library management system for music collectors, released under the MIT licence. Upstream says it catalogs your collection and improves its metadata as it goes, getting tags from MusicBrainz, Discogs and Beatport, fetching album art and lyrics through plugins, checking for duplicates and missing tracks, and offering a web interface plus MPD support. Self-hosted Beets is the option for people who would otherwise tidy their library by hand in a desktop player such as iTunes.

On xCloud the template runs the LinuxServer Beets 2.14.1 image, pinned by digest, behind a Caddy gateway with HTTP Basic Authentication, because the web plugin has no login of its own. Three volumes hold settings and the library database, the organised music, and files waiting to import. The library starts empty and the browser cannot import; you run beet import over SSH. Browser playback returns an error in 2.14.1.

From Sign-Up to a Live Music Library In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Beets setup normally means a container, a way to protect a web interface that has no login, volumes for the library, a domain and a certificate before the first import. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Beets from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and server, set a timezone and a username — a strong password is generated for you.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned LinuxServer Beets image with the beets_config, beets_music and beets_downloads volumes mounted, put a Caddy authentication gateway in front of it, and publish the gateway over HTTPS on your domain. Beets itself is not published on the host.
Step 03
Import Your First Music
Save the password from the protected credentials card and sign in at your HTTPS URL. The library starts empty: copy audio files into the downloads volume, SSH to the server and run beet import /downloads. Imported files are copied into the music volume and appear in the web interface.

Everything Beets Does, On Your Own Server

Beets runs here as a command-line tagger and library catalog with a browsable web interface on your own domain, behind a password.

Tagging From MusicBrainz
Beets catalogs your collection and improves its metadata as it imports; upstream gets metadata from MusicBrainz, Discogs and Beatport, or can guess it from filenames or acoustic fingerprints.
Browse And Search In The Browser
The web interface lists your library and lets you search it and open an item's metadata, over HTTPS.
Password-Protected Gateway
Beets has no sign-in of its own, so a Caddy gateway puts HTTP Basic Authentication in front of the whole site, including the JSON API, with a generated 32-character password.
Read-Only Web Interface By Default
The web interface is read-only out of the box, so a signed-in visitor cannot edit or delete library entries. Setting web.readonly to no in config.yaml changes that.
Import Over SSH
Import runs from the command line with beet import /downloads, copying organized files into the music volume. Upstream plugins add album art, lyrics, genres, ReplayGain levels and duplicate checks.
Persistent Library Storage
Settings, the library database and log live on beets_config, organized music on beets_music and incoming files on beets_downloads, and survive an xCloud Restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Music Library 24/7

Managed hosting for Beets, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Beets 2.14.1 deployed instantly
Image and gateway pinned by digest
Generated gateway password
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Beets

Fix messy tags across a collection
Import a folder of ripped albums, let Beets match them against MusicBrainz and correct titles, artists and track numbers, then review what changed.
Organise files into a clean structure
Have Beets copy imported files into /music in a consistent layout, while the originals stay in /downloads until you decide to delete them.
Find duplicates and missing tracks
Use the duplicate and missing-track checks upstream lists to see which albums are incomplete or stored twice.
Feed a streaming server a tidy library
Keep a well-tagged library on a volume that another music server can read, with Beets doing the cataloguing and the other tool doing the playback.

Beets Screenshots

The Beets web interface listing albums in a music library

Searching the Beets library in the web interface

A Beets item detail page showing a track's metadata

Beets vs Alternatives

iTunes: If you tidy your library by hand in iTunes, Beets is the automated route: it matches files against MusicBrainz and other catalogs and keeps its database in SQLite on your own Cloud VPS.
MusicBrainz Picard: Picard is a desktop tagging tool with no OneClick page here. Beets runs on the server, imports from the command line and adds plugins for album art, lyrics and duplicate checks.
Navidrome: Navidrome has its own xCloud page and streams a music library to players. Beets does not stream; it tags and organises files, so the two can work together on one collection.
Lidarr: Lidarr has its own xCloud page and manages music acquisition. Beets works on files you already have, tagging and filing them, behind a Basic Authentication gateway.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Beets hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Beets sits alongside other media apps.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Beets itself is licensed by its maintainers under the MIT license.

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Beets on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

What is Beets used for?

Beets is used to get a music collection into order. It imports audio files, matches them against MusicBrainz and other catalogs, fixes the tags, files them into a tidy folder structure and keeps a database of the library. Plugins add album art, lyrics, genres and checks for duplicates or missing tracks.

Is Beets free and open source?

Yes. Beets is open source under the MIT licence, so there is no licence fee. The xCloud price covers the Cloud VPS and the deployment. Your music collection has to be yours to store, and the disk on the server limits how much you can keep there.

Can you self-host Beets with Docker?

Yes. For Beets Docker hosting the template runs the LinuxServer beets 2.14.1 image, pinned by digest, with three named volumes behind a Caddy Basic Authentication gateway and HTTPS on your domain. Settings live in a config file in the volume, not in environment variables, so you edit that file for plugins.

How much RAM does Beets need?

Beets's manifest floor is 256 MB of RAM, one core and 5 GB of disk. Memory is no concern on the 6 GB tier sold on this page. Disk is the real limit, because the music library, the downloads folder waiting for import and the database all grow with your collection.

How do I import music into Beets?

The web interface cannot import. Copy audio files into the beets_downloads volume, mounted at /downloads, then connect to the server over SSH and run beet import on that folder as the app user, answering the prompts. Files are copied into /music and appear in the web interface, and the originals stay in /downloads.

Can I play music in the Beets web interface?

Not in version 2.14.1. The web plugin's audio play and download endpoint returns an error, because the upstream plugin resolves library-relative paths against its own install directory. Browsing, searching and metadata work, and the files stay intact in /music. Beets' core job is importing and tagging, not streaming.

Why does Beets ask for a password?

The Beets web interface and JSON API have no login of their own, so the template puts a Caddy gateway with HTTP Basic Authentication in front of the whole site, including audio downloads. The username and generated password are on your credentials card. Change them in the Environment editor, then restart.

How do I back up Beets?

A Beets backup covers beets_config, beets_music and beets_downloads together. The configuration volume holds the SQLite library database, which records paths into /music, so restoring one without the other breaks the library. Keep copies off-server, remember that music takes space, and test a restore.

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How do I upgrade Beets?

Beets 2.14.1 is fixed by tag and digest. Before moving on, back up /config, read the Beets changelog, and choose a later template version. Whatever you edited in config.yaml remains in the volume, because the image writes its default file only the first time it starts.

Can a signed-in visitor edit or delete my library?

Not by default, because the web interface is read-only unless you set web.readonly to no. Still, treat anyone with the password as trusted: one Basic Authentication login protects the whole site, including the JSON API, with no separate roles. Use a long password, and add xCloud IP management if you want to limit who can reach the address at all.

Can I run Beets in the cloud on xCloud?

Yes. Beets cloud hosting places the app and its gateway on a dedicated Cloud VPS, with your domain and certificate attached. Another provider's server can join as self-managed, deploying the same template from the same dashboard, and you import music over SSH.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.