Nuclear

Nuclear is a free, open-source music player without ads or tracking. Search for any song or artist, build playlists, and start listening. Runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Screenshots

Nuclear comes with multiple built-in themes, with light and a dark modes:

Artist search	Album search
Track search with recent searches	Artist page
Album page	Favorites
Playlists	Playlist
Synced lyrics	Lyrics with furigana and translations
Listening history	Listening stats
Stream sources for a queued track	Plugin store
Installed plugins	Preferences
What's new	Log viewer

Control Nuclear from your phone with Nuclear Jam:

Download

Grab the latest release for your platform from the Releases page.

Platform	Formats
Windows	.exe installer, .msi
macOS	.dmg (Apple Silicon and Intel)
Linux	.AppImage, .deb, .rpm, .flatpak

Features

• Search for music and stream it from any source
• Browse artist pages with biographies, discographies, and similar artists
• Browse album pages with track listings
• Queue management with shuffle, repeat, and drag-and-drop reordering
• Favorites (albums, artists, and tracks)
• Playlists (create, import, export, import from various services)
• Powerful plugin system with a built-in plugin store
• Themes (built-in and custom CSS themes)
• MCP server lets your AI agent drive the player
• Auto-updates
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Localized in multiple languages

Plugins

Nuclear has a powerful plugin system now! Every functionality has been redesigned to be driven by plugins.

Plugins can provide streaming sources, metadata, playlists, dashboard content, and more. Browse and install plugins from the built-in plugin store, or write your own using the @nuclearplayer/plugin-sdk.

MCP

You can enable the MCP server in Settings → Integrations.

Then to add it to Claude Code:

claude mcp add nuclear --transport http http://127.0.0.1:8800/mcp

Codex CLI: