A sleek player for your local music library
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🎵 supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, OGG
🔗 linked library, using original files on disk
🔊 gapless playback (same sample rate only)
🏷 metadata tagger (read and write ID3v2, Vorbis)
👀 auto-watch and re-scan folders
🧠 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.

Albums	Queue	Track Info / Tagger
Smart Playlists	Map	Stats

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

This app is built using Svelte + Tauri.

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