Audion

Audion is an open-source music player designed for managing and enjoying personal local music libraries. Built by a community of contributors, it emphasizes privacy, offline functionality, and user control, offering a fully featured experience without ads, tracking, or required accounts. Audion caters to music enthusiasts seeking a customizable, privacy-first platform for their audio collections across desktop and mobile devices.

fm scrobbling and Discord Rich Presence. Users can organize and tag their collections through metadata scanning, and benefit from instant search, gapless playback, and advanced audio controls such as a 10-band equalizer and crossfade. Audiophile features include support for lossless FLAC, WAV, and high-resolution audio up to 192kHz. Audion’s smart library management and offline-first design ensure that music remains private and accessible even without an internet connection. Optional encrypted sync is available for those who wish to keep multiple devices up to date.

Audion is cross-platform, with native applications for Windows (10+), macOS (11+), Linux, and Android. It can be installed quickly and does not require users to create an account for basic playback and library management. For those wanting remote access, Audion Server enables users to self-host their libraries on any machine, including home servers, Raspberry Pi, or VPS, and stream music from any browser or the Audion app. , FLAC to MP3 via ffmpeg), Subsonic API compatibility, JWT authentication, and isolated libraries per user.

The platform is free to use under the MIT License, with no subscriptions or ads. Optional supporter donations unlock perks such as unlimited library sync and priority support. Audion’s open-source nature invites community contributions and ensures ongoing transparency and user ownership.