oscine
Local music player

A better player for the music you own.

Oscine is for people who already keep a real collection: folders on disk, playlists they built themselves, tags they care about. It gives you power-user control in a modern interface.
Windows installer

Windows and Linux · Free · No account · v1.0.0-rc.3

Built for the way you already listen.

If you came from foobar2000, fooyin, MusicBee, or a folder full of files, you already know what you want. Oscine keeps that control and gives it a modern interface.
Your whole library
Point Oscine at your folders and browse by artist, album, and song. Search is instant, and it stays fast no matter how large your collection gets.
Playlists and a real queue
Playlists you keep and an up-next you can edit. Shuffle leaves the tracks you queued by hand in place. Choose gapless or crossfade, per album if you want.
Even loudness
ReplayGain is applied when the tags are there and measured in the background when they are not. Albums keep their dynamics, and playlists do not lurch in volume between tracks.
Tunedeck

One drawer for everything about what's playing.

Four tabs: artist, track, related, and playing. A biography and line-ups, the file's format and ReplayGain, what's up next, and a trail of what you just heard. Related music is matched against your library, not a catalogue you will never own.

Online lookups are optional. Turn them off and every local pane still works.

Using the Tunedeck
ArtistTrackRelatedPlaying

Now playing

Now Playing (For Now)

Residual Royalty · Owned Until Revoked

  • In your library: 2 albums
  • Members matched to artists you own
  • Up next: 12 in the queue

Make it look like yours.

Three built-in themes, each with a light and dark variant, and a token editor when you want to go further. Reactive colour pulls an accent from the current cover until you set one yourself.
Oscine
Warm amber on taupe. The house look.
Nocturne
Cold verdigris on a blue-shifted grey.
High Contrast
Every weight pushed apart. For bright rooms.
Themes and the token editor
Why local still matters

Streaming sold you convenience. The files are still yours.

A streaming catalogue is a lease. Tracks disappear overnight, and playlists you spent years on break when a label pulls a master. The artist on the other end sees a fraction of a cent.

If you bought the record, ripped the CD, or paid for the Bandcamp download, that music is already yours. Oscine plays those files, with no account and no catalogue that can vanish out from under you.

Everything within reach.

A Quick Menu on Now Playing for your favorite playlists, recent additions, and favorite artists. Last.fm and ListenBrainz for scrobbling. Settings you can search.
  • Tunedeck
    Who made this, what the file is, what’s up next, and related music you already own. A drawer you can open and leave open.
  • Themes you can author
    Oscine, Nocturne, and High Contrast out of the box, plus a token editor for colour, type, and motion. The accent can follow the current cover.
  • Command palette
    Ctrl+K from anywhere. Jump to a view, an album, a playlist, a setting. Prefixes when you want precision: > actions, @ artists, # playlists, / settings.
  • Discover you can explain
    Shelves built from your library and your listening history. Named recipes instead of a black box, stable through the day, with a one-line reason on every card.
  • Podcasts, on disk
    Subscribe, download, then play. Episodes live alongside your music without being mixed into the same library.
  • Stats that remember
    A listening log that survives a folder reorganise. Top artists, albums, and hours for any range you choose.

Get Oscine.

Free for Windows and Linux. Download it, point it at a folder, and start playing.
Windows installer

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