Vynl

Features that put you in control

Every feature is built around one principle: your music belongs to you. No compromises.

AI-Powered Discovery

Vynl uses Claude AI to build a deep understanding of your musical taste. Start a discovery session by choosing genres, mood, tempo, and era. Rate sample tracks as bad, ok, or amazing — and Vynl generates a detailed taste profile with genre distribution, top artists, and mood preferences. Use your profile to get 10 personalized recommendations of tracks you don't own yet, or auto-generate playlists from your existing library that match any mood.

  • Interactive discovery sessions
  • Claude AI taste profiling
  • Genre distribution analysis
  • Mood-aware recommendations
  • Auto-generated playlists
  • 50+ genre seed categories
AI-Powered Discovery

Library Management with Beets

Powered by the industry-standard Beets engine, Vynl automatically organizes, tags, and structures your entire music collection. Batch import folders with live streaming progress logs, detect and remove duplicates with quality-aware ranking (FLAC > ALAC > M4A > OGG > MP3), fetch album art, and clean up missing files — all from the web UI.

  • Batch import with live logs
  • Quality-ranked duplicate detection
  • Album art fetching
  • Metadata refresh & repair
  • Album rules (regex corrections)
  • Split album detection
Library Management with Beets

Multi-Room Audio with Sonos

Full Sonos integration with network speaker discovery, playback control, volume management, and room grouping. Play any track from your library to any Sonos speaker with one tap. Group speakers for party mode. Control everything from the Vynl interface — play, pause, skip, adjust volume per room.

  • Automatic speaker discovery
  • One-tap playback to any room
  • Volume control per speaker
  • Speaker grouping / party mode
  • Spotify search via Sonos
  • Status polling
Multi-Room Audio with Sonos

Podcast Management

Subscribe to podcasts via RSS feed, browse episodes, download for offline listening, and track your playback position. Built-in Whisper transcription converts episodes to searchable text. Fabric AI generates summaries and extracts key wisdom from each episode.

  • RSS feed subscription
  • Episode downloads
  • Playback position tracking
  • Whisper transcription
  • AI summaries (Fabric)
  • Wisdom extraction
Podcast Management

Karaoke Mode

Turn your TV into a karaoke machine. Stream any song from your library to a big screen with perfectly synchronized lyrics displayed in real-time. The text flows naturally as the song plays — just like a professional karaoke setup, but using your own music collection. Cast to your TV, grab a mic, and sing your heart out. Perfect for house parties, family gatherings, or solo sessions.

  • Synced lyrics on screen
  • Cast to any TV/display
  • Works with your library
  • LRC timestamp precision
  • Fullscreen karaoke view
  • No subscription needed
Karaoke Mode

Smart Playlists & Stats

Create custom playlists or let AI generate them by mood and activity. Heavy Rotation auto-updates from your most-played tracks (3+ plays in 4 weeks). Detailed listening statistics show top tracks, top albums, total hours, and recent activity — all tracked after 30 seconds of playback.

  • AI playlist generation
  • Heavy Rotation (auto)
  • Custom playlists with reorder
  • Top tracks & albums stats
  • Listening hours tracking
  • AI cover art (Stability AI)
Smart Playlists & Stats

Lossless Audio Streaming

Stream FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, OGG, Opus, and WMA with full HTTP range request support for instant seeking. Mobile clients get automatic transcoding to AAC 256kbps via FFmpeg. Download individual tracks or batch-download as ZIP.

  • 9 audio formats supported
  • HTTP 206 range seeking
  • Mobile AAC transcoding
  • Batch download as ZIP
  • Quality-aware playback
  • FFmpeg-powered pipeline

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Remote Access via Tailscale

Access your home music server from anywhere using Tailscale. Zero-config VPN with end-to-end encryption — no port forwarding, no exposing your server to the internet. API key authentication protects remote endpoints while localhost always bypasses auth for local use.

  • Zero-config VPN
  • End-to-end encryption
  • No port forwarding
  • API key authentication
  • Localhost bypass
  • Works on any network

Screenshot coming soon

Taste Profile

A detailed breakdown of your musical DNA generated by Claude AI from your discovery feedback. See your preferences mapped across genres with percentage distribution, your top artists, and mood preferences covering energy level, valence, and complexity.

  • Genre % distribution
  • Top artists ranking
  • Energy/valence/complexity
  • Profile text narrative
  • Feedback-based confidence
  • Evolves with new sessions
Taste Profile

Privacy First

Your data never leaves your server. No telemetry, no tracking, no ads, no data selling. Fully self-hosted with SQLite storage — everything stays on your hardware. No account required. Optional Tailscale for secure remote access. Open source.

  • Fully self-hosted
  • SQLite (local storage)
  • No telemetry
  • No account required
  • Open source
  • Your data, your server
Privacy First

Mobile Companion (Coming Soon)

Native iOS and Android companion app with offline sync for taking your library on the go. Background playback, CarPlay and Android Auto support, and remote speaker control. Part of the Premium plan.

  • Offline sync
  • Background playback
  • CarPlay & Android Auto
  • Remote speaker control
  • iOS & Android
  • Premium plan feature

Screenshot coming soon