PMDA vs Dave's Music Library

PMDA (pronounced "pimda") is one music lover's take on building the music library of his dreams — and now yours. Point the app at your own self-hosted PMDA server and enjoy your entire collection, beautifully organized, anywhere you go. WHY PMDA Most music apps lock you into a subscription and their catalog, or leave your carefully-built library a mess of mismatched tags and missing covers. PMDA is different: 100% self-hosted, private, and it actually understands your music. WHAT YOU GET • Your whole library, everywhere — browse artists, albums, genres and labels, with rich, clickable artist pages. • Real listening — gapless playback, history, cross-user recommendations, synced lyrics and waveforms. • Lossless, your way — stream bit-perfect FLAC or save data with smart transcoding; download albums for offline, even on a plane. • Clean and yours — your files, your server, your rules. No cloud lock-in, no ads, no tracking, no AI. HOW IT WORKS PMDA mobile is a companion to the PMDA server (a free, self-hosted music library app you run on your own machine or NAS). Enter your server's address, sign in, and your library is in your pocket. Nothing is stored on our servers — the app talks only to the server you point it at. Built for people who are in love with music. Welcome.

Your CDs, your records and your music files, on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Dave's Music Library is the companion to Music Library for Mac, a free and open-source app for people who own their music: catalog your CDs and vinyl with a label number on every case, rip and digitize them, tag everything from MusicBrainz, and explore your collection in ways streaming apps don't. Your shelf, by its label Every CD and record you own comes over from your Mac, ripped or not, in its jewel case or sleeve, with its edition, label number, purchase date and price. Find by Label shows what's at a number and what sits on either side of it, so you can go and grab it from the shelf. On Apple Watch, turn the Digital Crown to a label, even away from your iPhone. Or ask Siri: "Find CD 12 in Music Library". Every album and artist Browse your whole digital collection with the Mac's album and artist pages: descriptions, ratings, credits, the full track list, your copies and your plays. Choose which music to keep on the phone; everything else can still be browsed and downloaded when you want it, and Ready to Download lists the CDs and records you've digitized that aren't on the phone yet. A radio DJ who knows your records With your own Claude API key (set up in the Mac app), tap the radio button on any page and a DJ tells you the story behind what you're looking at: who made it, who played on it and how it connects to everything else you own. Ask anything; the DJ checks the web and searches your own collection to answer, with links to your albums and previews of songs you don't have. Play it properly Gapless playback when songs share a sample rate, and with a USB DAC the output switches to each song's own rate. Lock screen and Control Center controls, a play queue with Play Next, Liked Songs, and your queue kept between launches. Insights and Music DNA See what you own (how much is digitized, your free label numbers, what you've spent and the cost per play), what your music files are made of, and a listening report for the last week, month, year or all time: top artists, albums and songs, what was new to you, your listening clock and forgotten favorites. Music DNA maps who played, wrote and produced with whom. Widgets and Apple Watch Home and lock screen widgets for what's playing (with controls), your listening, your physical collection and next labels, your digital collection and albums to rediscover. On Apple Watch: a remote for your iPhone, your listening, and Find by Label. Your library stays yours No account, no ads, no tracking. Your iPhone and Mac sync directly over your Wi-Fi network, encrypted. Plays and likes go back to your Mac, and you can scrobble to Last.fm. What you own is edited in the Mac app and shown read-only on the phone. No Mac app yet? Tap Explore a Sample Library to try everything with fictional artists, CDs and records. Get the companion Mac app Your music comes from Music Library for Mac (free, macOS 14 or later): it catalogs your CDs and records, imports, rips and digitizes your music, then syncs both collections to your iPhone. Download it, and find the full documentation and the source code, at https://davidlago.github.io/music-library/