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Phonos Player · v0.9 · open waitlist

The music
player for
listening.

A desktop player for people who own their music, lossless, gapless, with a real spectrogram and credits that actually load.

Phonos Player started as a side project: an interface for our own collections that didn’t patronise us. Native macOS, Windows and Linux. Plays FLAC, ALAC, DSD, Opus, MP3, whatever you have. Pulls credits from MusicBrainz and Discogs so the names of the people who made the record actually appear on screen. Free, no account, no telemetry.

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The interface

Built for the moments you’re actually listening.

A late-evening listening session. The player shows the record, the queue, the credits, and a live spectrogram, not a banner ad for a podcast you didn’t ask for.

phonos.app · Phonos Player 0.9.4 · macOS
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Now playing · FLAC 24/96 · gapless
Light from a Dead Star
Lush · Spooky · 1992 · 4AD
2:48 FLAC 24/96 · ASIO bit-perfect · ReplayGain on 5:24
LYRICS CREDITS NOTES FILES
, from a fading hum, the chord opens, and the light keeps falling, slow as snow a long way after the source has gone SYNCED · LRC · COMMUNITY-CONTRIBUTED
Up nextSpooky · 1992
1Stray5:42
2Nothing Natural5:30
3 ▸Light from a Dead Star5:24
4Untogether3:47
5For Love4:18
6Superblast!2:33
Credits
Robin Guthrie Production · 8 of 10 tracks · also produced This Mortal Coil · Cocteau Twins
Miki Berenyi Vocals, guitar, songwriting · co-founder of Lush
+ 6 more Personnel pulled from MusicBrainz · last verified 2026-08
Principles

Three design decisions.

Three decisions that set Phonos apart from mainstream players.

Belief 01

Bit-perfect matters.

Most desktop players resample silently. Phonos passes audio bit-perfect to ASIO, WASAPI exclusive, or CoreAudio, whatever your DAC speaks. Gapless playback works for all formats, including DSD.

Belief 02

Credits are music.

Knowing who produced the record, who played the bass, who mastered it, this is part of listening. Phonos pulls personnel from MusicBrainz and Discogs and shows them while you listen, not three menus deep.

Belief 03

No account.

Phonos doesn’t have an account system. There’s nothing to log in to, no telemetry, no recommendations engine. Your library lives on your disk. The player respects that.

Roadmap

Roadmap to v1.0.

Stable build every eight weeks. No breaking changes after v1.0.

  1. Q1 ’26 · done

    macOS & Linux builds.

    Native Cocoa on macOS; GTK4 on Linux. Bit-perfect output via CoreAudio and ALSA/PipeWire.

  2. Q2 ’26 · done

    MusicBrainz credits.

    Personnel pulled live and cached locally. Discogs as a fallback when MB lacks data.

  3. Q4 ’26 · in flight

    Windows build.

    WinUI 3 with WASAPI exclusive and ASIO support. Beta NDA-only at the moment; public open by year end.

  4. Q1 ’27 · next

    Synced lyrics.

    Community-contributed LRC display synced to playback. Read-only; no contribution tooling in v1.0.

  5. Q2 ’27 · v1.0

    General availability.

    Stable v1.0 across all three platforms. Free forever.

Audio passes bit-perfect to ASIO, WASAPI or CoreAudio, gapless across every format.
Bit-perfect output · Phonos