A fan-made, open-source desktop player for the Aadam Jacobs Collection on the Internet Archive. Tauri 2 + React 19 + TypeScript with a multi-theme UI and an HTML5 Audio engine.

This is a fan tribute, not an official project. It streams public recordings from archive.org and is unaffiliated with the AJC project. It is free and non-commercial — no ads, no tracking, no money is made from it, and it hosts or redistributes no audio of its own; everything is played directly from archive.org's public endpoints.

• Single integrated window — top bar with search and back/forward, left Your-Library sidebar (Search / Likes / Recent / Artists / Years / Venues), main content panel, always-visible bottom player bar.
• Custom HTML5 AudioEngine — queue, shuffle, repeat, seek, volume. No Webamp, no native audio pipeline.
• Polite Rust proxy to archive.org — 4 concurrent, 200 ms min gap, retry/backoff on 429/503/5xx, project-identifying User-Agent.
• Live collection index — loads the Aadam Jacobs Collection through archive.org's advanced search API, then caches the normalized show index in localStorage for faster future launches. In-memory MiniSearch powers fuzzy global search.
• Likes and listening history — liked shows/tracks and recent plays are stored locally in the app.
• MP3 VBR default, FLAC toggle per show, selected on the show page.

Downloads are attached to the GitHub Releases page for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

The current builds are unsigned:

• macOS: Gatekeeper may block the first launch. Right-click Taper Player.app and choose Open.
• Windows: SmartScreen may warn. Choose More info → Run anyway if you trust this build.
• Linux: make the AppImage executable if needed: chmod +x Taper*.AppImage.

This is expected for the first public release. The app is open source, free, non-commercial, and does not include ads or tracking.

Four built-in themes — dark (default), light, vintage-1 (Winamp-style), and vintage-2 (Windows Media Player-style):

dark	light
vintage-1 (Winamp)	vintage-2 (Windows Media Player)

• Node.js 18+ and Yarn classic (1.x) — yarn.lock is committed.
• Rust stable (1.77+) with cargo — Tauri's build driver. Install via rustup.
• Platform build tools:
  • macOS: Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install).
  • Linux: libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev, libssl-dev, libgtk-3-dev, librsvg2-dev, libayatana-appindicator3-dev.
  • Windows: MS Visual Studio C++ build tools + WebView2.

See Tauri's prerequisites guide for the authoritative list.

yarn install
yarn build
yarn tauri dev

# For Desktop development, run:
yarn tauri dev

# For Android development, run:
yarn tauri android init
yarn tauri android dev

# For iOS development, run:
yarn tauri ios init
yarn tauri ios dev

yarn build (= tsc && vite build) is a fast frontend-only smoke test.

See docs/DEVELOPMENT.md for prerequisites, scripts, and debugging tips.

yarn tauri dev launches the raw debug binary, which isn't wrapped in a macOS .app bundle. For testing the real binary app run:

yarn tauri build
open "src-tauri/target/release/bundle/macos/Taper Player.app"

The collection and the work behind it:

• Aadam Jacobs — for recording 10,000+ concerts and donating them to the Internet Archive.
• Brian Emerick and the volunteer digitization and cataloging team.
• The Internet Archive — for hosting the collection.
• aadamjacobscollection.org — the official project site.

Taper Player is independent of and unaffiliated with any of the above.

I was having way too much fun listening to the collection in a browser tab, and figured it deserved a dedicated desktop app instead of hunting for the right tab every time. So I vibe-coded this with Claude Code — and now it just sits there playing the collection while I do anything else. 🎶

MIT. See LICENSE.

See DISCLAIMER.md and NOTICE for the non-affiliation and non-commercial statement.