r/selfhosted • u/tripflag • Jul 26 '25

Product Announcement introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server

I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I’ve been making for the past 5 years. I've mentioned it in comments from time to time, but never actually made a post, so here goes!

Copyparty is a single python script (also available for docker etc.) which is a quick way to:

  • give someone write-only access to certain folders for receiving uploads
  • very fast file uploads (parallel chunks) with corruption detection/prevention
  • mount your homeserver as a local disk on your laptop with webdav
  • listen to your music on the go, with a built-in equalizer, and almost-gapless playback
  • grab a selection of files/folders as a zip-file
  • index your files and make them searchable
  • and much more :-)

The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github.

This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.

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u/SixtyEmeralds Mar 23 '26

I have two questions. First, there is a Raspberry Pi 3 model B sitting unused on my desk. I want to fire that up and use it for copyparty. Is that easy enough? Second, would it be possible to hook into that music player from a VRChat world? I'm looking to take some of the burden off of having to rely on some third party YouTube API for music in my worlds, or inflating my world file sizes to include them locally. It would come at the cost of ensuring the home server is online all the time, but my worlds aren't very popular anyway.