Liberate your music. Own your data.
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Streaming platforms decide what you hear and lock your library behind a subscription. Playlist starts from a simple idea: your music collection belongs to you.
Playlist is a desktop music manager for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Download tracks from most platforms, complete your collection, and play everything locally. Your library lives in a local database on your disk. No account. No subscription.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Download | Get tracks from YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and hundreds more sources via yt-dlp |
| Discover | Find the tracks that your albums miss, and the albums that your artists miss |
| Smart playlists | Build playlists from rules (genre, year, play count, and more). They update themselves |
| Statistics | See your listening history: plays per day and your most played tracks, artists, and albums |
| Last.fm | Send "now playing" updates and scrobbles. Offline plays queue and submit later |
| Watched folders | The app imports new audio files from folders that you select |
| Device sync | Copy playlists to USB drives, SD cards, and portable players |
| Metadata | MusicBrainz and Last.fm supply album art, genres, and release data. A tag editor writes tags into your files |
| Playback | Queue, shuffle, repeat, crossfade, volume normalization, and playback from the system tray |
| Library | Playlists, album and artist views, and full-text search (Ctrl+K) |
| Shortcuts | Control playback from the keyboard. Press ? for the full list |
Download the installer for your platform from the Releases page.
| Platform | Format |
|---|---|
| Windows | .exe (NSIS installer) |
| macOS | .dmg |
| Linux | .deb, .rpm |
On the first launch, the app downloads yt-dlp and ffmpeg. On each later launch, the app updates yt-dlp, so downloads continue to work when platforms change.
- Node.js 20+ and npm
- Rust 1.77+ (install via rustup)
- Platform-specific Tauri dependencies — see the Tauri prerequisites guide
npm install # Install frontend dependencies
npx tauri dev # Start the app in dev mode (Vite + Tauri window)npx tauri build # Writes the installer to src-tauri/target/release/bundle/The Flatpak manifest is at com.playlist.app.yml. Use it to build and to publish to Flathub. The build targets GNOME Platform 48 and bundles yt-dlp as a standalone binary.
Flatpak build instructions
# Install flatpak-builder
sudo dnf install flatpak-builder # Fedora
sudo apt install flatpak-builder # Ubuntu/Debian
# Install the SDK and extensions
flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Sdk//48
flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.rust-stable//24.08
flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.node22//24.08Flatpak builds have no network access. Fetch the dependencies first with flatpak-builder-tools:
pip3 install toml aiohttp
# Generate Cargo sources from the lockfile
python3 flatpak-builder-tools/cargo/flatpak-cargo-generator.py \
src-tauri/Cargo.lock -o cargo-sources.json
# Generate Node.js sources from the lockfile
python3 flatpak-builder-tools/node/flatpak-node-generator.py \
npm package-lock.json -o node-sources.jsonflatpak-builder --force-clean build-dir com.playlist.app.yml
flatpak-builder --user --install --force-clean build-dir com.playlist.app.yml
flatpak run com.playlist.appsrc/ SvelteKit frontend (Svelte 5 + shadcn-svelte + Tailwind v4)
routes/ Pages: home, search, library, stats, manager, settings
lib/api/ Typed Tauri invoke() wrappers
lib/stores/ Svelte 5 rune stores
lib/components/ UI components
src-tauri/ Rust backend
src/db/ SQLite (rusqlite, WAL mode, FTS5 full-text search)
src/audio/ Audio playback (rodio + symphonia)
src/download/ Download engine (yt-dlp + ffmpeg)
src/metadata/ Metadata enrichment (MusicBrainz, Last.fm)
src/watch.rs Watched folders (auto-import)
src/commands/ Tauri IPC command handlers
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Framework | Tauri 2 |
| Frontend | SvelteKit + Svelte 5 |
| UI | shadcn-svelte + Tailwind CSS v4 |
| Backend | Rust |
| Database | SQLite (WAL mode, FTS5) |
| Audio | rodio + symphonia |
| Downloads | yt-dlp + ffmpeg |
| Metadata | lofty, MusicBrainz, Last.fm |