Why Takeout?

Cloud... This Medium story covers a lot of the background and reasons for creating Takeout. In summary, Takeout began as system designed to minimize the costs of creating your own personal media streaming service in the cloud. There are many excellent services (Jellyfin, Plex, and Kodi) that do similar things, however, they are more complex, have more features, and work best at home. (Takeout can run at home as well)

Music... Takeout is designed to be a music player that also supports video and podcasts. Live TV, DVR, books, photos, and media sharing are not design goals right now. Instead, more focus is put into generating great playlists based on extensive metadata, search capabilities and supporting multiple platforms. And except for Internet radio, anything can be downloaded for offline playback.

Cross-platform... Takeout is built using open source cross-platform technology. The server is written using Go and can run on any platform. The server requires minimal resources making it ideal to run on a small VPS in the cloud. The apps are written using Flutter and can run on Android, iOS, and Wear OS.