oscine

A Future Forward Music Player

Oscine is open source, ad-free, privacy first, customizable, and artist-focused.

Oscine's library with the sidebar, a song list, and the now-playing bar.

Available for Windows & Linux

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If music is what drives you. Oscine lets you take the wheel.

Control
Oscine builds a data layer around the music you own. Giving you full control to browse, search, and modify your library without sacrificing efficiency or visual appeal.
Elegance
You can have form and function. Modern streamers spend quality time refining their interfaces - why should a local player be any different?
Personalization
Themes and style customization make Oscine yours. Tune the look and feel of your player with a robust set of configurations and accessibility friendly colorization¹.

¹: Oscine monitors color combinations against the WCAG 2.1 AA standards of web accessibility to help ensure readability for all persons. Our tool cannot guarantee 100% readability for all color combinations.

Oscine 1.1

New in 1.1

This release is all about tools. Oscine 1.1 brings a full parametric equalizer and CD ripping into the app, puts synced lyrics on the Stage, and hooks into Discord so your friends can see what you're listening to.

Equalizer
Shape your sound with a twelve-band parametric EQ, save presets for your favorite albums and artists, or load a profile made for your headphones.
An equalizer with a six-band curve over a live spectrum, above a table of band settings.
CD Ripping
Rip your CDs straight to FLAC with MusicBrainz matching, cover art, and file names laid out just the way you like them.
A CD rip screen with the matched release, its cover, a file naming template, and the track list.
Lyrics
Follow along with synced lyrics on the Stage, read from your .lrc files and tags or found on LRCLIB.
Now Playing filling the window with album art, a waveform ribbon, and synced lyrics.

Plus a tag editor that covers just about every field, and plenty of fixes and quality of life changes along the way. The changelog has the full list.

Dive into your tunes

Sometimes there is more to the music than just soundwaves.

For those who want to dig a little deeper into their favorite tracks and artists, Oscine provides the Tunedeck - a sidekick that provides contextual information to whatever you're jamming to.

A Better Harmony

Vibrant & Responsive Interface
Data-driven Library Management
Fully Customizable Configuration
Future Forward & Evolving
Artist-focused Philosophy
First Class Accessibility

Free yourself from the enshitification of music listening.

Everything these days is behind a subscription. You're renting your music and artists get screwed in the process.

Ditching Spotify or Apple Music comes with a huge loss of access and cost barriers for many; but for music nerds with a means to buy permanent media, why settle for a music player that looks like it is from the Windows XP days or where customizing feels like a coding task?

Supporting artists as directly as possible and using local players, like Oscine, is how we turn the tides on these abusive industry practices.

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Free for Windows and Linux.
Windows installerLinux AppImage.deb

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