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Musica

Your own music collection, with a native Mac home. Connect to Navidrome, keep a local library and rediscover what you own.

what it is

Musica is a native music client for people who keep their own collection. It connects to your Navidrome server through the Subsonic API and gives the library a home in a familiar Mac interface.

The longer-term idea goes beyond browsing: take a radio chart or somebody's playlist, find the tracks you already own and turn the gaps into a useful record-shopping list.

available in the alpha

• Connect to Navidrome and optionally save the connection in macOS Keychain.
• Synchronise your collection into a local library, with separate caches for different server accounts.
• Browse tracks and search locally by title, artist or album.
• Refresh the library without losing the previous complete collection if a sync fails or is cancelled.

next: playlists that start somewhere else

Playlist importing and matching are planned. Bring a CSV, Excel file or pasted list of songs, then match it against the collection. Local fuzzy matching will handle spelling differences and alternate titles; optional assistance through a local Ollama model is planned for more ambiguous cases.

The intended result is a Navidrome playlist of the tracks found, plus an exportable shopping list of what is missing. Useful for the next record-store or thrift-store visit.

Streaming playback and iPhone support are also in development. The current alpha does not play audio or import playlists yet.

status

Private alpha for macOS 14 or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel. The connection, library sync and search are being tested with a real collection. There is no public download yet.

stack

• Swift
• SwiftUI
• SwiftData
• Navidrome
• Subsonic API
• macOS Keychain