Microgamma is built for listening to whole albums, not just shuffling singles. Playback flows track-to-track without gaps, loudness stays even, and every album page doubles as a place to explore the record — its artwork, the exact pressing you own, and other releases worth a listen.
Gapless playback & crossfade
When you play from the desktop app (or any device acting as the streamer), Microgamma preloads the next track and hands audio over the instant the current one ends — no silence, no stutter between songs. On continuous records — live sets, DJ mixes, concept albums that bleed one track into the next — the transition is seamless, exactly as the artist intended.
Gapless playback needs no switch of its own. A crossfade toggle on the queue's playback toolbar overlaps the end of one track with the start of the next when a song advances on its own. Skipping by hand cuts straight to the next track. Clients connected to a streamer hear the same output the streamer produces.
Consistent volume: track vs album gain
Microgamma measures each track's loudness (EBU R128 / ReplayGain) and can level playback so nothing jumps out or disappears. Turn it on under Settings → Playback → Normalize volume.
Loudness is measured when a track plays, and for files a library scan has just brought in, so new music can level itself without a separate pass. Untagged files are measured with the ffmpeg installed on that machine. Tracks that already carry ReplayGain or R128 tags use those.
Underneath it you'll find Album mode. With it off, every track is levelled independently (track gain) — best for a shuffle of unrelated songs. With it on, Microgamma uses album gain: the whole album is levelled as a unit, so the quiet intro and the loud finale keep their intended relationship to each other. Leave it on when you listen to albums front-to-back.
Stations
A station keeps picking what to play next. Start one from a song, or with the wand. Themed stations take a prompt you type, or a preset. Songs you had already queued stay in place when the station starts.
Stations use the same AI features as the DeepSeek token. Recommendations remember earlier turns on your account.
Full-screen artwork
Click an album's cover to open it full-screen. If the release has more than one image, a thumbnail rail lets you flip between them; the arrow keys move through the set, a swipe does the same on a touch screen, and Esc closes it. Great for reading liner notes on a scanned booklet or just admiring a cover at full size.
Release details & alternate covers
Every album page carries a Release info chip. Open it for a bottom sheet describing the specific pressing — format, label, year and the rest of the details Microgamma looks up from Discogs (see the Discogs token page to enable lookups with the basic features).
Not happy with the cover Microgamma picked? Hit Covers to browse candidate artwork from other pressings of the same record and set the one you like as the album's cover. Genres on the release can be edited. If a suggested song is one you already own, I have this links the suggestion to your copy.
Similar albums & artists
Each album page suggests related listening — similar albums already in your own library, plus related records surfaced from Discogs. It's an easy way to fall back into your collection instead of reaching for a streaming service's recommendations. You can switch similar-song suggestions off; the choice is remembered.
Song info also includes Find on links that open the same recording on other streaming services in your browser.
Good to know
- Gapless transitions, crossfade, and loudness normalization are applied by the streamer, so they behave the same on every device you connect to it.
- Album gain is read from ReplayGain / R128 tags when present, and derived from the album's tracks when it isn't — so it works even on untagged rips.
- Release details, alternate covers and similar records all rely on Discogs lookups. With the basic features, add your own Discogs token to turn them on.