Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing
I built Jukebox because I got frustrated with group music apps and Spotify’s limitations (not everyone has Spotify, and collaborative playlists are still too easily dominated by one person). Jukebox is a web app that lets you create a group queue—anyone can join via link, add YouTube songs, and the system automatically rotates songs so everyone gets a fair turn (no more playlist hogs).
Web-based, no accounts, no installs.
Drop in a YouTube link or search and add music instantly.
Songs rotate in round-robin order (so even if one person adds ten songs, nobody else is skipped).
Entirely open source (MIT), self-hostable with Docker, privacy-friendly.
Live demo: https://jukeboxhq.com
Code: https://github.com/skeptrunedev/jukebox
I made this as a stress-relief project while pivoting my actual startup (Trieve) and used it to practice UI/UX (neo-brutalist design, drag-and-drop), plus experiment with AI pair coding.
Would love your feedback or feature ideas!
I think the experience could be improved if you branched beyond YouTube for the media. I search "jim-e stack" and see multiple non-song videos (in fact 3/4 are not songs). One idea might be to use a service like https://odesli.co (formerly song.link) to filter to real music tracks people are familiar with on their streaming platforms. Their API returns links to Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, etc for a given music entity (e.g. song, album). Furthermore, integrating with Odesli would offer a path towards allowing users to drop Spotify / Apple Music URLs directly from their respective apps into the jukebox, which I think would be my ideal experience.
My $0.02. Thanks for sharing!
Tbh I should have done an Ask HN. I tried googling and using the AI to find some song API which could replace youtube and nothing came up.
For example, I think quite a lot of people think first-come-first-served is fair, and jumping the queue is unfair. But that doesn't seem to be the notion of fairness employed here.