Player 1Hi-Fi

Your personal music library......with the help ofthat onevinyl shopemployee.

A desktop music player that learns your taste, spins live DJ sessions, and reshapes your soundstage with up to 7.1 discrete channels of realtime concert stage simulation.

Player 1

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

A music player built for people who care about their library, their sound, and discovering what to play next.

Live DJ Sessions

A built-in DJ that takes over the decks and builds live listening sessions tailored to your mood and taste.

Vinyl Shop Chat

A conversational music assistant that knows your library, remembers your preferences, and discovers new tracks.

Soundstage Control

Expand or tighten your stage with convolution reverb across up to 7.1 discrete channels. Five room presets from intimate club to cathedral.

Music Taste Profile

Radar charts, genre breakdowns, and personalized insights into your listening personality.

Smart Mixes

Dynamic playlists like Hidden Gems, Forgotten Favorites, and Artist Radio generated from your library.

Learning You

Different listening changes trigger realtime music insights and questions from the DJ that help them understand what you enjoy about the music you listen to.

Native Audio Engine

Custom FFmpeg + speaker pipeline for gapless playback, crossfades, and bit-perfect output.

Full Library Management

Browse by artist, album, genre, or decade. File watching auto-syncs your collection.

Meet the Vinyl Shop Employee

A personal DJ straight from the Vinyl Shop around the corner.

Not just another recommendation algorithm. A conversational music companion that has read your entire library and builds a true understanding of why you love certain music and not others.

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Live DJ Sessions

Your DJ takes over the decks, building a 15+ track queue in real time. React with love or skip and it adapts on the fly.

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Conversational Assistant

Ask it anything about your library. "Play something like that last track" or "Make me a playlist for cooking dinner."

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Memory System

It remembers your preferences across sessions. Tell it you hate country once and it won't forget.

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Learning You

Different listening changes trigger realtime music insights and questions from the DJ that help them understand what you enjoy about the music you listen to.

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The Soundstage

Shrink the room to a basement club or blow it out to a cathedral. Convolution reverb across up to 7.1 discrete channels puts you inside the space, not just in front of the speakers.

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Room Presets

RockElectronicJazzHip-HopClassicalIndie

Your Music Profile

A comprehensive dashboard of your listening personality. Radar charts, ranked lists, and deep insights that go beyond play counts.

  • Genre & decade breakdowns with ranked lists
  • Personalized taste insights and listening personality summary
  • Hidden gems and forgotten favorites surfaced from your library
  • Listening history, play counts, and session stats
  • Persistent memory of your preferences across conversations

The bridges between your obsessions, demystified.

Explore a living cloud of your music interests and the threads that tie them together. Discover why your love of Arcade Fire connects to Will Butler through art-punk nervous energy, or how Talking Heads and LCD Soundsystem share the same anxious dance-rock DNA.

The connections aren't just genre labels. They're the deeper qualities that explain your taste — the textures, attitudes, and emotional signatures that make you reach for one record over another.

Arcade FireWill Butlerart-punknervous energyTalking HeadsLCD Soundsystemanxiousdance-rockRadioheadEverythingEverythingcerebralart-rockBjörkexperimentalfearlessnessSt. Vincent
Indie Rock
Dance-Punk
Art Rock
Experimental
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Built for Community

More than a music player. It's your scene.

Player 1 is built around the idea that music is better when it's shared. Join a growing community of audiophiles and enthusiasts who appreciate thoughtful discourse, honest reviews, and discovering music through people — not algorithms... okay well some algorithms too. :)

Reviews & Ratings
Shared Playlists
Friend Activity
Taste Matching
Direct Messages
Discovery Feed

It's MySpace meets Letterboxd — for music.

Remember when your profile actually said something about who you were? When you could visit someone's page and know instantly if they were your people? We're building that — a place where your taste is your identity, your reviews start real conversations, and your friends' playlists are the best recommendation engine that exists.

No algorithmic feeds pushing promoted content. No influencer culture. Just people who love music, talking about music, with each other.

Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

Tame Impala

“The way the guitar spirals backward through the mix is still unmatched. Currents gets the hype but this is the real one.”

KLKate L.·2h ago
Shared a playlist

Late Night Introspection

23 tracks · 1hr 42min

ARAlex R.·5h ago
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Tyler S. is listening to

Motion Picture Soundtrack

Radiohead

Closed Beta

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  • Live DJ sessions & vinyl shop chat
  • Soundstage simulation with up to 7.1 channels
  • Music taste profiling
  • Smart mixes & contextual prompts
  • Native audio engine with gapless playback
  • Full library management

Linux

AppImage / .deb

macOS

.dmg

Windows

.exe