A music player for the music you own

Orchard Music Player plays the music files on your computer. No account, no subscription, no cloud: your music plays from your own disk, and you decide what's in your library.

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Your music, always ready to play

Music files you own don't expire. They play without a connection, keep working when a subscription ends, and nobody can take them out of your library. Orchard Music Player is made for that collection: open a folder and press play.

It comes from going back to a personal MP3 collection to stop depending on closed platforms: this is the player made for it.

No account or sign-in
No subscription
No internet connection
Your listening stays on your computer

Plays the files you already have

Common formats play as they are, with no converting or importing. Tags and cover art come straight from the files.

MP3
Ogg Vorbis
Opus
FLAC
WAV
AAC / M4A
AIFF

A classic player, without the clutter

Transport, playlist, tags and cover art share one tidy window. It looks like a terminal program, but it's a real desktop app drawn on the GPU.

Every action has a key, so you rarely need to reach for the mouse. The mouse works too.

Color schemes shared with Orchard Commander

Press T and the whole window previews each scheme as you move through the list. The built-in schemes match Orchard Commander's, and the schemes you made for it show up here too.

In Settings (⌘, or F9) you can edit a scheme's colors or make your own, pick the font and its size, and follow the system's light and dark mode. Changes show at once, and Orchard Commander gets your schemes too.

What sets it apart

No import, no library

Open a folder or drop it onto the window, and it plays. There's no database to build or keep in sync, and your files are never moved, renamed or retagged.

Playlists are plain files

Playlists are saved as ordinary M3U files with relative paths. Other players can open them, so nothing is locked into this app.

Gapless playback

The next track is queued ahead and follows without a break, so live albums and continuous mixes play as recorded.

ReplayGain without clipping

Even volume by track or by album. Gain is lowered where a track's peak would clip, and Opus loudness tags count too.

Filter as you type

Press / and type a few letters of an artist, album or title. The playlist narrows with every key.

Spectrum or oscilloscope

A spectrum analyzer with falling peak caps, or an oscilloscope, drawn right in the grid. Press A to switch.

Keys

Every action has a key. The key bar shows the common ones, and F1 lists them all.

On Windows and Linux, use Ctrl instead of ⌘.

Space: Play or pause
Enter: Play the selected track
Z X C V B: Previous, play, pause, stop, next
← →: Seek 5 seconds (⇧: 30)
+ −: Volume
⌥↑ ⌥↓: Move the selected track
Del: Remove the track (⇧Del: all)
J: Jump to the playing track
/ or ⌘F: Filter the playlist
S / R: Shuffle / repeat off, all, one
A: Spectrum, oscilloscope, off
G: ReplayGain track, album, off
T: Color scheme, quick pick
⌘, or F9: Settings
⌘O: Open files or folders
⌘L / ⌘S: Load / save a playlist
⌘+ ⌘− ⌘0: Font size

Screenshots

The playlist narrowed down by the quick filter — Type after `/` to narrow down a long playlist

The player in a tall, narrow window — The layout adapts to a tall, narrow window

The built-in file browser for adding files and folders — Add folders from the keyboard with the built-in browser

The player in a light color scheme — A light color scheme

Part of the Orchard family

Orchard Commander is a two-panel file manager and Orchard Download Manager handles resumable, queued downloads. All three share the same look and color schemes, and all are free and open source.

Orchard Commander Orchard Download Manager

Version 1.1.1