Raspberry Pi · Alexa skill · Free

Your music collection, on Alexa

Local Media plays the music stored on your Raspberry Pi on your Echo devices, by voice. A free, self-hosted alternative to My Media for Alexa: no relay servers, no third-party accounts — everything stays at home.

Get it on GitHub How to install
Raspberry Pi 3 / 4 / 5 / Zero 2 W Any Linux · Docker Open source
Local Media web app home screen with the music library

Just ask Alexa

The skill works in English (US, UK) and Spanish (Spain, Mexico, US).

  • “Alexa, open my collection”
  • “Alexa, ask my collection to play Queen”
  • “Alexa, ask my collection to play the album Abbey Road”
  • “Alexa, ask my collection to play music from the eighties”
  • “Alexa, ask my collection what's playing”
  • “Alexa, next” · “Alexa, shuffle”

What it does

Everything you'd expect from My Media for Alexa, running on your own hardware.

Play anything by voice

Artist, album, song, genre, folder, playlist, year or decade — with fuzzy search that copes with what Alexa mishears.

All your formats

MP3 plus FLAC, WMA, OGG, OPUS, WAV, ALAC, APE… transcoded on the fly with ffmpeg, with seeking and resume.

USB, SD, NAS & DLNA

Scans local drives and mounted shares, and plays from UPnP/DLNA servers like Plex, Jellyfin or MiniDLNA.

Playlists & favorites

Imports M3U, PLS and iTunes playlists. Create your own, add tracks by voice and mark favorites ⭐.

Radios & audiobooks

Internet radio stations and audiobooks that remember where you left off.

Every Echo, its own queue

Several Echo devices with independent queues, multi-room groups, and cover art on Echo Show.

A web app to manage it all

Open it from your phone or computer at home. Translated into 10 languages, with light and dark themes.

Album view in dark mode
Browse your library by artists, albums, songs, genres, folders, playlists and radios.
Play on… selector to choose the Echo device
Play on… play in the browser, or get a queue ready on the Echo you pick.
List of Echo devices and what each one is playing
Your Echo devices: what each one is playing, its queue, and every phrase you can say.
Step-by-step Alexa setup guide
Set up Alexa: a step-by-step guide. Connect with Amazon creates the skill for you.

Install in a few minutes

Requires a Raspberry Pi 3/4/5 or Zero 2 W with Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm or later). It also runs on any x86 Linux or with Docker.

Run the installer

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y git
git clone https://github.com/DivolandiaLabs/Local-Media-for-Alexa.git
cd Local-Media-for-Alexa
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh --cloudflare

Add your music

Open http://PI-IP:8080, go to Settings, add your folders and press Scan now.

Connect Alexa

Follow Set up Alexa — about 10 minutes, only once. Then say “Alexa, open my collection”.

Full documentation, Docker instructions and troubleshooting are in the README on GitHub.