A sleek player for your local music library
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🎵 supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, OGG
🔊 gapless playback (same sample rate only)
🎛️ auto-switch device sample rate
🔗 linked library, using original files on disk
👀 auto-watch and re-scan folders
🏷 with metadata tagging support (read and write ID3v2, Vorbis)
🧠 smart playlists
🖼 download album art, origin country from Wikipedia
🎤 fetch lyrics for current song
🗺 World Map view - see your library on a map
💿 a neat mini-player
🎸 U2's latest album automatically added to your library
📊 Stats, album timeline
🌊 Waveform view
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This is a player that I built for personal use, with the goal of re-connecting with my local music library in the age of streaming. It's pleasant to use, with a modern UX that is fresh yet feels familiar to classic software like Winamp, foobar2000 and iTunes. It's fast, audiophile-friendly and can handle large libraries of all formats. I wanted to create a tool that puts me as the listener back in the driver's seat, taking an active role in organizing and enriching my library of music that I curate with passion.

Musicat also strives to be a meta-layer on top of your library. Features like Map View and Stats are all derived from the question - "how can I connect more with my music collection?". They might seem like gimmicks, but there is a lot of room to explore this idea, and this app is the perfect playground to do that. Whether it's learning about the artists via a Wikipedia panel, or getting a glimpse into your listening habits, you can expect more functionality of this sort to be built into the app.

As a musician, I also wanted to organize my own music that I've made over the years, or tag bands that I've played in, and use the app as a way to build your own discography, as well as a knowledge base of new song ideas and lyrics. I created a prototype feature called "Artist's Toolkit" (enable in Settings) that captures this idea. It's half-baked at the moment, but it has already proven useful as a concept.

There's a lot of things in my personal wishlist, but here are the things that I'm working on or thinking about currently:

🌐 Internationalization    ●●●●●○○○○○
Once done, contributors can add new languages by adding a locale file eg. src/i18n/it/index.ts.

🎨 Theme Support    ●●●●●●●●○○
→ See built-in themes and discuss here

📖 Knowledge/Wiki panel    ●●●○○○○○○○
A built-in Wikipedia reader for artists/albums/songs which makes interesting connections to your library.

📖 Linux/Windows builds    ●○○○○○○○○○
via Tauri's Github action

📖 Auto-updates    ○○○○○○○○○○
Need to see how to do this with Tauri and Github releases

• Cmd + F : Search
• Up / Down : Highlight next, prev track (also in metadata viewer/editor)
• ENTER : Play highlighted track
• Shift + Click : Highlight multiple tracks
• Space : Play / pause
• I: Show Info & Metadata
• Q: Open the Queue
• A: Go to Albums
• L: Go to Library

This app is built using Svelte + Tauri.

Musicat uses ALSA on Linux, install it if you don't already have it on your system:

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev

1. Set up the Tauri framework and it's prerequisites depending on your platform
2. Run npm install (using Node version 18)
3. You can then create a development build using npm run tauri dev.

Pull requests are very welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

GPL-3.0