A clean, consistent, privacy-first music player for modern desktops.
CoreAmp is a zero-config audio player for macOS and Linux. The interface is built on a single modern component system, so every screen, from the player to the library to settings, shares one consistent visual language. Your music and your data stay entirely on your machine.
The front end is a Vue 3 application built entirely on VibeUI, a consistent component library that gives CoreAmp one cohesive look from edge to edge.
- One design system. Every control, table, button, and panel is a VibeUI component, so spacing, color, and behavior stay consistent throughout the app.
- Player-first layout. The now-playing panel and queue sit up top with a fixed, predictable footprint. The library never gets pushed around, and each pane scrolls its own content.
- A real library view. Sortable, searchable, paginated track tables with segmented Tracks, Artists, Albums, and Genres views, album-art grids, and inline actions (play next, add to queue, edit metadata, jump to artist or album).
- Light and dark themes with an in-app toggle, a slim global loading indicator, and clear, dismissible error reporting.
- Privacy first. Zero telemetry. No cloud accounts. No tracking. Everything stays local.
- Audio engine. 10-band graphic EQ with savable presets, ReplayGain (track and album), crossfade, and gapless playback.
- Playback. Smart shuffle, repeat modes (off, queue, track), volume with mute, working scrub and seek, and a sleep timer.
- Library. Automatic indexing of your music folders, drag-and-drop import, fast browsing, and paginated track lists for large collections.
- Metadata. 0 to 5 star ratings, full tag editing, manual album-artwork replacement, and background enrichment via MusicBrainz and the Cover Art Archive.
- System integration. Media keys and macOS Now Playing, a live tray now-playing label, and a built-in updater.
- Visualizer. Several reactive modes, plus two optional games tucked into the visualizer (Keyboard Hero and Chicken Lander).
CoreAmp separates the interface from the heavy lifting:
- CoreAmp (the app): A Tauri v2 application with a Vue 3 and VibeUI front end for playback control and UI.
- CoreAmp-Daemon: A background service that handles file-system scanning and metadata enrichment.
- Shared core: A Rust library (
coreamp-common) for the SQLite database and IPC logic.
| Component | Technology |
|---|---|
| Language | Rust |
| Front end | Tauri v2, Vue 3, Pinia, VibeUI |
| Audio | Web Audio graph (EQ, ReplayGain, crossfade, gapless) |
| Metadata | Lofty |
| Database | SQLite (via Rusqlite) |
You will need the following system libraries:
libwebkit2gtk-4.1libasound2(ALSA)libgtk-3
git clone https://github.com/velkymx/CoreAmp.git
cd CoreAmp
cargo build --releaseThe binaries will be located in target/release/.
CoreAmp is built on the shoulders of giants. See CONTRIBUTORS.md for a full list of the open-source libraries we use, and CONTRIBUTING.md for how to get involved.
CoreAmp is licensed under the Polyform Non-Commercial License 1.0.0.
- Personal and non-commercial use: Free to use, modify, and distribute for personal, educational, or research purposes.
- Commercial use: Requires explicit permission from the author.
See the LICENSE file for the full text.
CoreAmp: simply play your music.