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MICROGAMMA
Own Your Music · Own Your Sound
You already own the music — the download codes from the sleeve, the lossless files you paid for, the rips scattered across folders. Microgamma gives it one home, and plays it anywhere: this machine, the box wired to your amp, or your phone across town.
Install it · point it at your folder · press play
[ 01 ] // MANIFEST
What is Microgamma?
One program, three jobs. Run the one you need today — or all three at once.
The Player
Install it, point it at your music folder, press play. No account, no cloud, no setup wizard — just your collection, on your machine.
The Streamer
Leave it running on the box wired to your amplifier and drive it from your phone. Same library, same player, whichever device you pick up.
The Server
Run it headless on a NAS or a spare machine. Everyone at home connects for free — and you can reach it from outside without touching a router.
Like curating a vinyl collection — with the convenience of modern streaming.
[ 02 ] // WHAT_YOU_KEEP
What Vanishes, What Stays
Microgamma doesn't sell you music — you already buy it, from the record shop, from the download code in the sleeve, from wherever you get your lossless. What it does is make sure everything you build on top of it stays yours too: the playlists, the likes, the years of listening.
⏳ When You Rent
- ✗Your playlists live in someone else's account
- ✗Stop paying and the curation goes with the catalogue
- ✗Albums disappear when a licence expires
- ✗The app decides how your library looks and behaves
- ✗Nothing on your disk to back up
💾 When You Own
- ✓Your files stay exactly where you put them
- ✓Playlists, likes and play history live on your disk
- ✓Backed up with everything else you own
- ✓Nothing expires, nothing gets delisted
- ✓Covers, metadata, order — all of it yours to edit
Twenty years from now it still plays — no account, no licence check, no renewal.
[ 03 ] // CAPABILITIES
Key Features
Private by Default
Your music stays on your device. No ads, no tracking, no data harvesting — just you and your music.
No Box, No Port Forwarding
It's an app, not an appliance: install it on the machine you already use, with no dedicated device to flash. And reaching your library from outside the house takes no port forwarding, no VPN, no argument with your router.
Every Device Is the Same Player
Open play.microgamma.io on your laptop, your phone, the box wired to your amp — it's one player, seen from wherever you are. Put a record on and it plays through every connected device at once, each with its own volume, driven from whichever screen is in your hand — no pairing, no limit. Add it to your phone's home screen and it behaves like a native app.
Only Your Music
No streaming tab, no web radio, no podcast section. Microgamma plays the collection you own and nothing else — which is exactly why it stays fast and stays out of the way.
Gapless Playback
Albums play the way they were mastered. The next track is preloaded and handed over the instant the last one ends — no silence, no stutter, even on live sets and continuous mixes.
Consistent Volume
No more reaching for the dial between songs. Microgamma measures each track's loudness (ReplayGain / EBU R128) and levels playback — per track, or in album mode that keeps a record's quiet-to-loud dynamics intact.
High-Fidelity Streaming
Your files streamed peer-to-peer, straight from the machine that holds them. No re-encoding — the file you own is the file you hear.
The Exact Release You Own
Match a record to its precise Discogs release — format, label, year, the pressing sitting on your shelf — and pull in the community's scans, credits and notes. Swap in alternate covers or your own photos of the sleeve, zoom the art full-screen, and jump straight to similar records in your library.
What to Play Next
Out of the box, suggestions come from your own library: same genre, same feel as the song that's playing — as good as your metadata is. Add your own DeepSeek key and they get properly smart, and anything you don't own yet comes with a pointer to it on Discogs.
Retro Visualizers
Six of them — Synthwave, Tunnel, Spectrum 3D, Waveform, Circles and Bars — moving to whatever's playing. Throw one on the big screen and let the room do the rest.
[ 04 ] // WHAT_IT_COSTS
Right Now, Nothing
Microgamma is in beta. Every feature is switched on, for everyone, at no cost — there is nothing to buy yet, and nothing held back.
⚡ Beta: remote streaming runs on our servers, free while we build
🎧 Today
Install it and use it. No account to create, no tier to pick, nothing to bring but the music you already have.
- ✓Everything on — the full feature set, free during beta
- ✓Your disk — your library stays on the machine you install it on
- ✓Your network — play it on every device in the house
- ✓Beyond it too — reach your library from outside, through our servers
Nothing to pay. Nothing to configure.
🗺️ Later
One day we do have to charge for something. When that happens, the split is simple — and you get to pick which side you're on.
- ✓Run it yourself — your hardware, your API keys — free, and staying that way
- ✓Or let us run it — planned: a hosted instance, our services, no setup
- ✓Never a hostage — your files and playlists are on your disk either way
We'll sell convenience, not access.
Microgamma itself isn't open source — that's what pays for building it. But if you know how to run the pieces yourself, they're yours to run. Paying us will only ever mean you'd rather not.
[ 05 ] // JACK_IN
Point It at Your Folder
Microgamma is in beta and moving quickly. It's already good for daily listening — download it, open your collection, and see.
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What Comes Next
Lyrics are being built right now; the rest is where we're headed.
Hosted Instance
Would rather not run it yourself? We'll run Microgamma for you.
Smart Queues
Playlists that learn what you actually keep coming back to.
Family & Friends
Separate profiles for a household sharing one library.
Lyrics
Synchronized lyrics you can follow along to, track by track.