Media CenterYOUR OWN FREQUENCY

VERSION 1.3.2 · WINDOWS · OPEN SOURCE

A home for
everything you
listen to.

The albums you return to. The stories you get lost in. Bring your collection together in one thoughtful desktop player.

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Your servers. Your files. Native MPV playback. Meet Media Center 1.3.2 ↗

MADE FOR YOUR COLLECTION

Navidrome

Audiobookshelf

Local files

NEW IN 1.3

Your collection.
More personal.

Give the entire app a different feel with Soft, Precision, Outline, Bold and Retro styles. Original keeps the familiar design as the default, and every style works with your chosen theme. Try Minimal and Gallery immersive layouts with colorful artwork across the full listening view. This release also provides a shared Discord application when no custom ID is set and improves Windows installer process and folder checks.

A LITTLE SPACE FOR YOURSELF

Familiar comforts.
A fresh place to listen.

Browse your records, follow a chapter, or catch up on a show. Each kind of listening has a place of its own.

Home with a featured continuation, favorites mix and local listening statistics
Start with something you love. Listening shelves, favorites and recent-music mixes, and a daily stats widget.
Local music collection tabs and a saved playlist with original audio tracks
Your folders, a full collection. Albums, songs, artists, genres, favorites, recents, playlists and folders.
Media Center music library with album covers, search, navigation, and the persistent player
Your record collection, in its element. Albums, playlists, favorites, and a queue that stays close.
An audiobook detail page with author, narrator, resume control, and chapter list
Pick up where the story left off. Whole-book progress and chapters, even across multiple audio files.
Podcast show detail with independently playable episodes and episode filters
One show. Every episode in its place. Episode progress, search, sorting, and a podcast inbox.
Starlight immersive player with synchronized demonstration lyrics and the current queue on the right
A little closer to the music. Word emphasis, your choice of lyric colors and fonts, and the current queue.
Lyric appearance popup with font, size, color, spacing, background and animation options
The words, your way. Preview lyric colors, type and motion in both player views.
Theme customization with five color controls, interface, heading and lyric fonts, preview, and reset
Find your own atmosphere. Thirteen themes, solid or gradient surfaces, translucency and your own colors and fonts.
Settings search with matching labels and sections
Find it, without losing your place. Search, jump and highlight while keeping unsaved changes.
Recap date selection, design and palette controls with a poster preview
Make a memory of your listening. Choose dates, a layout and a palette, then download your poster.

Real app screenshots, using sample collections and controlled playback test data. Music and books are not bundled.

GOOD SOUND. LESS FRICTION.

Made for the way
you actually listen.

From a high-resolution album to one more chapter before bed. The little things should feel easy.

01 / THE SOUND

Let the original play.

Native MPV playback for original audio streams and local files. Keep your FLACs, WAVs, and everyday MP3s together. Optional ReplayGain, EQ, exclusive output and shared-output music crossfade.

02 / THE EVERYDAY

Keep your place.

Audiobookshelf resume and progress sync, independent podcast episode status, listening notes, and a Listen Later list for the things you want to return to.

03 / THE DETAILS

A player that fits.

An always-on-top mini player, saved queues, fullscreen, and original-quality offline downloads. A command palette, undo, larger covers and clear volume controls stay within reach. Your listening can stay close while you get on with your day.

04 / THE WORDS

Find the right lyrics.

Follow synchronized lyrics from LRCLIB, or search and bind your preferred match to a song. Saved matches stay in your local database for next time, including offline. Import LRC/TXT files and edit timing locally. Set lyric fonts, colors, backgrounds and word emphasis in either player view. Word timing is exact when supplied, otherwise estimated for line-timed lyrics.

05 / THE ATMOSPHERE

Make yourself at home.

Choose from thirteen themes including Glass and Black Glass. Adjust colors and fonts, import local theme CSS with a live preview, and search directly for the setting you need. Save listening profiles to return to a favorite setup.

06 / THE MEMORIES

See your listening take shape.

See your daily goal and recent activity on Home, or export a Recap for your chosen dates in 12 distinct layouts and 12 palettes, with streaks, rankings and previous-period comparisons. Create and save your own music mixes with artist, genre, year and favorite rules, alongside mixes from your listening history. Optional Discord presence can share what’s playing with Last.fm cover art.

See what’s supported, and what’s still ahead

YOUR LISTENING, REMEMBERED

A month of moments.
A style of your own.

12 layouts. 12 palettes. Choose your dates, add a title and export a poster worth keeping. Each design tells your listening story differently.

Twelve distinct Recap compositions: posters, tickets, records, editorial pages, heatmaps and more

Real Recap exports with illustrative data. Statistics come from listening recorded on your device.

YOUR NEXT LISTEN AWAITS

Bring your collection.
We’ll make room.

Media Center is a Windows desktop app. Connect your own media servers or choose a local folder to get started.

Get the Windows installer

Free under GPL-3.0-only · Current installers are unsigned.

  1. 01

    Install Media Center

    Download the Windows x64 EXE from GitHub Releases and run the installer.

  2. 02

    Choose your MPV

    Select your existing mpv.exe in Settings. MPV is a separate installation; it isn’t bundled. Get MPV ↗

  3. 03

    Connect, or pick a folder

    Add Navidrome or Audiobookshelf in Settings. For local audio, choose Your collection → Local music → Add folder.

A FEW THINGS TO KNOW

Before you press play.

Does it include music or host my library?

No. Media Center is a client for your own Navidrome and Audiobookshelf servers, and a player for folders you select. Sample collections are included to explore the interface, but they aren’t playable media.

Does it support my server?

The compatibility baseline is Navidrome 0.60.3 and Audiobookshelf 2.35.1, with MPV 0.38 or newer. See the user guide for setup and current limitations. Full Feishin and Audiobookshelf feature parity is a longer-term goal.

What stays on my computer?

Settings, queues, lyric bindings, and local listening history are stored in SQLite. Saved credentials use Windows protection. Optional lyrics and artwork lookups through LRCLIB, Last.fm, MusicBrainz/Cover Art Archive and Apple iTunes send relevant metadata, and enabled Discord presence shares activity. The app has no configured analytics service; this landing page uses no analytics scripts.

How do updates work?

Open Settings → Updates to check GitHub for a newer stable release. Choose when to download and restart to install. MPV is updated separately.

Can I contribute?

Absolutely. Bug reports, documentation, testing, and code contributions are welcome. Start with the contribution guide and feature inventory. The project is licensed GPL-3.0-only.

BUILT IN THE OPEN

Your collection.
Your own frequency.

A personal project, made to be shared and improved together.

Explore the project on GitHub