Downtify Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Downtify hosting on xCloud gives you a self-hosted music downloader that turns Spotify and YouTube Music links into tagged audio files from your browser. Deploy Downtify from the OneClick catalog and xCloud starts the pinned 3.4.0 image behind a private nginx gateway, replaces the public default login with a generated admin password, mounts volumes for your library and publishes it over HTTPS. Only download content you are permitted to download.

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What is Downtify?

Downtify is a self-hosted web app that, in its README's words, turns Spotify and YouTube Music links into a tagged audio library. It resolves track details from public Spotify embed pages, so it needs no Spotify credentials, account or Premium subscription, then finds the audio on YouTube Music with ytmusicapi, downloads it with yt-dlp and tags it with ffmpeg and mutagen. It also plays the library back, and lists a playlist monitor, lyrics and M3U playlist export. Self-hosted Downtify is a music downloader you run yourself. At this version it is licensed under GPL-3.0.

On xCloud this template deploys Downtify 3.4.0 as a community-published image, pinned by digest, behind a pinned nginx gateway. Settings and users sit on the downtify_data volume and downloaded audio on downtify_downloads. Downloads grow the disk quickly, and YouTube may refuse requests from datacenter addresses.

From Sign-Up to a Live Downtify Install In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting a music downloader normally means a gateway, a domain, a certificate and a secured admin login before a single track can save. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Choose Downtify from the xCloud OneClick catalog and select a domain. There are no extra fields — xCloud generates the credentials.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Downtify 3.4.0 image behind a private nginx gateway, replace the default admin login with a generated password, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Paste A Spotify Link
Save the generated admin password, open the HTTPS Downtify URL, sign in as admin, and paste a Spotify link to start your first download.

Everything Downtify Does, On Your Own Server

Downtify runs in full here — a self-hosted music downloader and player, on infrastructure you control.

Download Spotify Tracks, Albums And Playlists
Download Spotify tracks, albums, artists and playlists as tagged audio with album art, lyrics and metadata.
Keep Playlists In Sync
The built-in playlist monitor keeps your downloaded playlists in sync with Spotify.
Play Your Library In The Browser
Play the library in the built-in browser player. Upstream lists its companion mobile apps as experimental.
Default Login Replaced At Install
The public default login is replaced at install by a generated admin password.
Non-Cacheable By Design
Signed-in audio is never cached by the CDN for anonymous visitors.
Library Survives A Restart
Settings, accounts and the downloaded library survive an xCloud Restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Media Downloading 24/7

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

Downtify 3.4.0 deployed instantly
Generated 24-character admin password
Private nginx gateway included
ffmpeg and yt-dlp bundled in the image
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Downtify

Build a tagged audio library from links
You paste a Spotify link, and Downtify saves the tracks as audio files with title, artist, album, year and cover art embedded, in the format you choose.
Keep a playlist in sync
You watch a playlist or artist, and new tracks or releases download on a schedule you set, instead of you re-checking it by hand.
Feed a media server
Downtify writes M3U playlist files that Jellyfin, Navidrome and Plex pick up, so a library you are entitled to keep shows up in your own server.
Share one library at home
An admin adds accounts for the rest of the household, and everyone signs in over HTTPS to browse and play the same library.

Downtify vs Alternatives

Spotify Premium: Downtify builds files you hold on your own server and, according to upstream, needs no Spotify Premium subscription. It only suits content you are permitted to download.
spotDL: Downtify offers a web interface, accounts, a player and a playlist monitor. This page makes no feature comparison with spotDL, so check both against your own workflow.
Lidarr: Lidarr is a separate music collection manager with its own OneClick page. It manages releases you already source elsewhere, while Downtify fetches tracks from links.
MeTube: MeTube is a separate web front end for yt-dlp with its own OneClick page. It downloads video and audio from URLs, while Downtify adds Spotify link handling, tagging and a library.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

A growing library with more disk headroom.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Downtify alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 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. Downtify 3.4.0 itself is GPL-3.0 licensed software, separate from the server it runs on.

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Ready To Own Your Music Library?

Downtify 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.

Is Downtify free?

Yes. At the pinned 3.4.0 tag Downtify is open source under GPL-3.0, linked from this page, and upstream's default branch has since moved to AGPL-3.0. xCloud bills for the Cloud VPS under it, not for Downtify, and you need no Spotify Premium subscription according to the project.

Can you self-host Downtify with Docker?

Yes, and this Downtify Docker hosting template does it for you: the community-published image, pinned by digest, runs beside a pinned nginx gateway on your own server, with HTTPS in front. It is not a Downtify cloud account, and ffmpeg and yt-dlp are bundled in the image.

How much RAM does Downtify need?

The template manifest asks for 256 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 10 GB of disk as a floor. Disk is the real limit, because downloaded audio grows quickly. This page sells the 6 GB tier, which leaves wide headroom above that floor for conversion work and other apps.

Does Downtify need a Spotify account or API key?

No, according to upstream. It reads track details from public Spotify embed pages and never touches the Spotify API, so it needs no credentials or Premium subscription. The audio itself comes from YouTube Music or YouTube, matched by duration, and fetched with yt-dlp.

Why might a Downtify download fail?

YouTube, which Downtify fetches audio from through yt-dlp, can refuse requests from datacenter addresses. If downloads fail, upload a cookies.txt file under Settings, YouTube cookies. This is a known limitation of running it on a server, so test a few tracks before you rely on it.

How do I sign in to Downtify?

Sign in as admin with the generated password on the credentials page. The installer replaces Downtify's public default login with that password, so the site is not left open with a well-known credential. Change the password inside Downtify under Settings, Users when you like.

What should I know before downloading music with Downtify?

Only download content you are permitted to download. Keep the admin password private, because an admin can download audio onto the server disk, browse and delete the library, create users and upload YouTube cookies. You can also add Basic Authentication at the access layer as a second barrier.

What runs alongside Downtify?

A pinned nginx gateway that is the only published service, and it marks every response non-cacheable so a CDN never serves signed-in audio to anonymous visitors. Downtify itself has no published host port. Keep the port and trusted-proxy settings as shipped.

How do I back up Downtify?

Back up both volumes together, copied while the stack is stopped: downtify_data holds settings and users, and downtify_downloads holds your audio. Keep the stable environment values too. Large libraries make a full copy slow, so plan the time and the storage for it.

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How do I upgrade Downtify?

Downtify 3.4.0 remains pinned on a running install when the catalog changes; moving to a newer template version is your choice. Back up both volumes and read the upstream release notes first. The licence also changed after this version, so check the new terms before you move.

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.