nuclear
Free, open-source music player streaming from YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and other platforms, with lyrics, downloads, radio mode, ad-skipping, Last.fm scrobbling, bookmarking, Discogs data search, multi-language support, Dark Mode, and Mastodon integration.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Window Manager
- Flatpak
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- No Tracking
- Music Downloader
- Ad-free
- Playlists
- Stream audio
- Dark Mode
- Visualizer
- Music Library
- No registration required
- MP3 Downloader
- Streaming
- Built-in Equalizer
Spotify integration- User Rating
- Lossless Audio
- Personalized Recommendations
SoundCloud Integration
Tags
- SponsorBlock Support
- YouTube
- soundcloud
- jamendo
- audius
nuclear News & Activities
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Recent activities
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I don't know about others, but none of my providers load songs.😐
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I decided to expand it to include both legal and pirated means.
FUCK THE BIG TECHS!
What is nuclear?
nuclear is a free music streaming program that pulls content from free sources all over the internet. YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, more.
If you know mps-youtube, this is a similar music player but with a GUI. It's also focusing more on audio. Imagine Spotify which you don't have to pay for and with a bigger library.
- Get music from
YouTube or 
Invidious / 
SoundCloud / 
Bandcamp more... - Radio mode : You choose one song and the app will find similar songs.
- Download Videos
- Search database from
Discogs / Bandcamp more... - Get Lyrics
- Skip ad scenes with
SponsorBlock - Bookmarking of favorites
Last.fm Scrobbling / 
Mastodon- Dark mode
- Multi-language
nuclear information
Developed by
nukeopLicensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.1Alternatives
73 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Czech
- Azerbaijani
- Kurdish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Italian
- Polish
- Belarusian
- French
- Spanish
- Croatian
- Dutch
- Finnish
- German
- Korean
- Bengali
- Danish
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Japanese
AlternativeTo Categories
Audio & Music, Video & MoviesGitHub repository
- 16,967 Stars
- 1,261 Forks
- 168 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Still in pre-release stage but has potential,
It is a very nice idea, but at its current state it is horribly slow, it takes forever to start playing when it plays at all.
I agree with the slowness, its 2025. I am on a M2 Max Apple Silicon Mac everything should be done in 1 - 3 seconds or less. At least should a progress bar show me that something is happening.
I don't know about others, but none of my providers load songs.😐
you gotta do "xattr -cr" in terminal on MacOS if you want to run the Application or it claims the program is "corrupt", it also takes over your whole MacOS to basically say all .mp4's need to be played with "nuclear" doesn't prompt me if I wanted to do that in the first place. I tried using it for 30 mins which is a good shot but its strangely slow so when I click play on a song I want to hear it takes 45 Sec to about 1 min and 30 secs before I can hear any audio and jumping around. I have no idea if can point it to play my local library of already downloaded music. This music player to me seems like someones personal project that needs more work and refinement I don't like it just going in and it setting itself as default for all media from music to videos.
Cool little app. Just what you'd think (and more)!
i̶t̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶e̶d̶. greedy corpos like alphabet destroy the internet. nuclear is not working anymore. tried several versions. time to ditch any american service really.
love the concept but would be nice if it worked. for instance, vimusic for android has the same logic and works flawlessly