Entertainment, music and news consumption
Local music and radio players
Apps that play locally stored music files, often alongside internet radio streams, with playlists, favorites, equalizers and related playback features for everyday listeners, mostly on Android.
Built for: Mobile music listeners with local libraries
Projects since May 04
164
Different builders
156
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▲ +68%
AI is the core
1.2%
Projects per week
Mostly desktop app (37%), mobile app (35%), web app (13%) · from r/SideProject, r/vibecoding, r/ShowYourApp, r/IMadeThis
Latest
- Playdeck — Controls Spotify playback from a dedicated physical device with play, pause, skip, like, and volume knob, showing album art on a color screen.“Build Playdeck to hyperfocus: play, pause, skip, like, and a volume knob, with album art on a color screen. Plugs in via USB-C, joins your WiFi, and works with Spotify”
- Clickwill — Manages music directly on an iPod's internal library, letting users add CD rips and edit tracks and album art without iTunes or Apple Music.“I Made Clickwill - a iPod library manager”
- ShelfDrop — Plays user-owned audiobook files on iPhone and transfers them from a PC over local Wi-Fi.“I built a tiny iPhone audiobook app because getting my own M4B/MP3 files from PC to Apple Books was painful”
- MirrorBall — Plays local lossless and lossy music files on Windows with an animated, customizable interface and fullscreen and mini player modes.“I built MirrorBall - a Windows (soon on Mac) music player around the idea that local music should feel good to use”
- NullPlayer — Plays media in a macOS music player that loads Winamp and Windows Media Player skins.“[OS] Free NullPlayer app now supports ALL Winamp (2.x, ClassicPro, 5) & ALL Windows Media Player (7, 7.1, XP (8), 9, 10, 11 and 12) Skins. NullPlayer is a clean room effort and the only media player with universal skin support. Come for the skins and stay for the deep media ecosystem integrations.”
- Makes songs added to the YouTube Mix queue play next instead of at the end of the queue.“I put together an extension that makes newly queued YouTube songs actually play next”
- zentr — Combines podcasts, YouTube channels, Apple Music albums, audiobooks and personal audio/video files into one inbox and shared playback queue on iPhone and iPad.“zentr: podcasts, YouTube and Apple Music in one inbox and queue (iPhone/iPad beta)”
- Reson — Plays a local music library on the desktop, recoloring the interface from album art and showing synced lyrics.“I wanted Spotify's look for my own FLAC library, so I built a music player that recolors itself from the album art”
- OVO — Plays and organizes a user's local and iCloud Drive music files on iPhone, with playlists, metadata editing, Wi-Fi transfer, and CarPlay and Apple Watch controls.“OVO is a local-first music player for iPhone, CarPlay and Apple Watch”
- Melodex — Plays a user's local music collection and lets them steer what plays next, with visual album browsing and rediscovery of forgotten tracks.“I got tired of Shuffle, so I built a music player that lets you steer what comes next”
- RetroPod — Lets users build a virtual iPod-style music player by adding songs from YouTube links and sharing it.“I built a fun, free digital iPod that you can add songs to and share”
- Open Music Player — Plays the user's own downloaded audio files on iPhone and iPad with a vinyl-style interface, offline and in the background.“We built a vinyl-style player for your own music files on iPhone and iPad”
- Perseus — Downloads tracks, playlists and albums from SoundCloud with parallel and resumable transfers, metadata and cover art.“I built Perseus — an open-source SoundCloud downloader in Rust + Tauri”
- Controls Spotify playback from a Bluetooth keychain remote.“I made an unnecessarily complex Bluetooth remote control 🤣”
- RTFM Player — Plays and organizes local audio files on macOS across multiple libraries, with bit-perfect playback and metadata editing.“RTFM Player, a music player and file librarian for audiophiles with support for multiple libraries and bit-perfect playback”
- android-pod — Turns an Android phone into a single-purpose music player that boots straight into playing local MP3s.“android-pod”
- PodMelody — Plays podcast episodes and Apple Music songs in one continuous queue, syncing across Apple devices via iCloud.“PodMelody 1.1.5: one queue for your podcasts and Apple Music, now with Siri on iOS 27Body”
- SongFlip — Intercepts taps on music links and opens the track directly in the user's chosen music player.“[Milestone] 2 weeks after launch: ~1,000 installs, 10.8k cached songs & first revenue with my 0-click music redirector”
- Outcue — Announces the title and optionally artist of the currently playing song out loud on Android.“My friend asked Spotify for a feature that announces song names. Nothing happened, so I built it for all Android music apps”
- Sravana — Plays the user's own local music files in the browser with offline listening, equalizer, playlists and crossfade.“I got tired of paying a subscription to play music I already own, so I built Sravana”
Most discussed
- soundcli — Downloads YouTube, SoundCloud, and Spotify playlists as local audio files and plays them offline in a terminal interface.“Own your music: I built a terminal app that downloads your YouTube, SoundCloud, and Spotify playlists to real local files and plays them offline”
- SpotLight — Plays Spotify music natively through a lightweight desktop client with synced lyrics and system media controls.“I got tired of Spotify eating 1GB of RAM in the background, so I built a native, ultra-lightweight client in Rust (uses ~60MB RAM)”
- YouTubeMusicCLI — Streams YouTube Music from a terminal interface using far less memory than the Chrome app, with playlist selection and shuffle playback.“YouTubeMusicCLI: 95.9% RAM reduction!”
- Ampwave — Plays locally stored music files on iOS with karaoke-style word-by-word lyrics and lyric-based search.“I built a fully offline music player for iOS called Ampwave”
- Aulosyne — Plays locally stored music offline with album auto-grouping, gapless playback, and a 10-band equalizer.“Offline music player without the ads”
- Sonora — Plays music from Spotify, YouTube Music, Subsonic and local files in a native cross-platform desktop player with synced lyrics.“Sonora: native, crossplatform music player with first-class Spotify/YTMusic support”
- PasteWaves — Hosts and shares audio tracks through a web player with shareable links.“Is this peak AI? I vibe-coded an audio sharing platform to ship my AI music :-)”
- HearIsai — Plays locally stored music offline with themes, equalizer presets, and 8D and spatial audio effects.“Meet HearIsai — a premium offline music player designed to make your music feel truly yours. 🖤💗”
- Winampfy — Plays Spotify music through a Winamp 2-style desktop player UI with classic skin support.“I combined two eras of music software: Winamp 2 + Spotify”
- Auro Music — Plays music through a media player with a Liquid Glass style interface, blur effects and transparency.“He creado un Reproductor de musica llamado Auro Music”