nuclear

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:24:25 +0800

nukeop/nuclear

Important notice

Nuclear requires ongoing maintenance to keep everything working. This version has not been maintained for a while, so expect things to be broken.

We have started a rewrite here: https://github.com/NuclearPlayer/nuclear-xrd

This new version will have several advantages

It will fix the constant need to update to keep everything working. Auto-update will be built-in for both Nuclear, and its plugins
Electron will be ditched in favor of Tauri
Performance-intensive parts will be written in native Rust
Theming support
A powerful plugin system
Better tools for plugin developers
Support for more metadata and streaming providers.

Stay tuned for updates!

Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

Links

Support channel (Matrix): #nuclear:matrix.org

Discord chat: https://discord.gg/JqPjKxE

Suggest and vote on new features here: https://nuclear.featureupvote.com/

Readme translations:

What is this?

nuclear is a free music streaming program that pulls content from free sources all over the internet.

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.

What if I am religiously opposed to Electron?

See this.

Features

Searching for and playing music from YouTube (including integration with playlists and SponsorBlock), Jamendo, Audius and SoundCloud
Searching for albums (powered by Last.fm and Discogs), album view, automatic song lookup based on artist and track name (in progress, can be dodgy sometimes)
Song queue, which can be exported as a playlist
Loading saved playlists (stored in json files)
Scrobbling to last.fm (along with updating the ’now playing’ status)
Newest releases with reviews - tracks and albums
Browsing by genre
Radio mode (automatically queue similar tracks)
Unlimited downloads (powered by youtube)
Realtime lyrics
Browsing by popularity
List of favorite tracks
Listening from local library
Audio normalization
No accounts
No ads
No CoC
No CLA

Development process

First of all, be sure to check out the Contribution Guidelines.

The instructions for running Nuclear in development mode can be found in the Development Process document.

Community-maintained packages

Here’s a list of packages for various managers, some of which are maintained by third parties. We would like to thank the maintainers for their work.

Package type	Link	Maintainer	Installation Method
AUR (Arch)	https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nuclear-player-bin/	nukeop	`yay -S nuclear-player-bin`
AUR (Arch)	https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nuclear-player-git	nukeop	`yay -S nuclear-player-git`
Choco (Win)	https://chocolatey.org/packages/nuclear/	JourneyOver	`choco install nuclear`
GURU (Gentoo)	https://github.com/gentoo/guru/tree/master/media-sound/nuclear-bin	Orphaned	`emerge nuclear-bin`
Homebrew (Mac)	https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/nuclear	Homebrew	`brew install --cask nuclear`
Snap	https://snapcraft.io/nuclear	nukeop	`sudo snap install nuclear`
Flatpak	https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.js.nuclear.Nuclear	nukeop	`flatpak install flathub org.js.nuclear.Nuclear`
Void Linux	https://github.com/machadofguilherme/nuclear-template	machadofguilherme	See readme
Nix/NixOS	https://search.nixos.org/packages?query=nuclear	raf	See the Link

Community translations

Nuclear has already been translated to several languages, and we’re always looking for contributors who would like to add more.

We’re using Crowdin to manage localization. You can check if your language is supported, track localization progress, and help us translate Nuclear there.

Screenshots

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Attributions

Uses SponsorBlock data licensed used under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 from https://sponsor.ajay.app/.

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