Library
All your albums, artists and labels in one place. Search everything instantly, heart the tracks you love and see what you play most.
Open source
music player
Play and organise the music you own. Discover new releases on Bandcamp and download what you buy straight into your collection.
- Works on
- Mac, Linux
- Price
- Free, no subscription
- Your music
- Stays on your computer
- Code
- Open source
Features
Tidy up
Fix wrong song titles and artist names, with undo. Find leftover junk files and albums with missing tracks.
Player
Albums play without gaps between tracks. Queue, shuffle and an equaliser. The play and skip keys on your keyboard just work.
Analysis
bc works out the tempo, musical key and energy of every track, and draws a picture of each song so you can see its shape.
Recommendations
Suggestions for what to play next and tracks that sound alike, based on what you listen to and worked out on your own computer.
Bandcamp
Search Bandcamp, browse by genre, listen to previews and follow your favourite artists and labels. See what other fans collect.
Downloads
Download your Bandcamp purchases. They arrive with the right song and artist names and land in your library by themselves. Interrupted downloads pick up where they stopped.
DJ sets
For DJs: bc can put tracks in an order that flows, let you fine-tune each transition and save the whole mix as one audio file.
Library
Your whole collection in one list, however big it gets. Sort and filter by artist, tempo, key, length, when you added it or how often you've played it.
Every track shows its waveform, a picture of how loud it is from start to finish, so a quiet intro or a big drop is easy to spot.
Player
Albums play the way they were meant to, without gaps between tracks. Shape the sound with the equaliser and effects, line up what comes next, or let bc keep the music going when the queue runs out. The play, pause and skip keys on your keyboard work as you'd expect. With a one-time setup you can also open bc on your phone over your home Wi-Fi and play music through the phone itself.
Bandcamp
Find new music by genre and place, keep up with new releases from the artists and labels you follow, and see what other fans are buying.
When you find something you like, one click adds it to your downloads. Releases you've bought are fetched in the format you choose.
How it works
bc is one program written in Rust. It runs a small server on your computer and shows its interface in an app window. The only site it talks to is Bandcamp.
- Library, playlists and play history in one database filesqlite
- Server only reachable from your own computer unless you turn on phone access127.0.0.1:8420
- Tempo, key, loudness and waveforms worked out on your computerebu r128
- Purchases downloaded in the format you pickflac · mp3 · wav
- Keeps the Bandcamp login cookie, never your password0600 / keyring
- Interrupted downloads resume, no half-written files.part → rename
bc is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bandcamp.
Install
bc runs on Mac and Linux.
Mac
For Macs with an Apple chip (M1 or newer) on macOS 12 or later. Open the downloaded file and drag bc into your Applications folder.
Download for MacThe first time you open bc, your Mac will say it can't check the app, because bc isn't registered with Apple yet. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. You only need to do this once.
Linux
For 64-bit PCs on most current distributions. Download the file, allow it to run and open it. bc opens its window in Chromium, Google Chrome, Brave or Firefox, so one of them needs to be installed.
Download for LinuxTo allow it to run, right-click the file, open Properties and turn on Allow executing file as program, or run chmod +x bc-linux-x86_64.AppImage. If it still doesn't open, install libfuse2.
On your phone
Open bc in your phone's browser over your home Wi-Fi. It takes a one-time setup on your computer, and each phone is paired with a short code. The manual has the details.
Arch Linux
Arch users can install the included package with cd packaging && makepkg -si.
Build it yourself
bc is written in Rust. In a copy of the source, ./scripts/install.sh builds and installs it for your user. Requirements and technical details are in the manual on GitHub.