Replay
Replay
Your music. Lighter.
A beautiful, native desktop music player that streams from YouTube and plays your local files — in the same library, with the same playlists, with the same small footprint.
⬇ Download Installer (.msi) · ⬇ Download Installer (.exe) · ⬇ Portable (Replay.exe)
Windows 10/11 · 64-bit · no install required for the portable build
Why Replay?
Most music apps force a trade-off. Streaming apps lock you into their catalog. Local players can't reach anything that isn't already on your disk. Desktop music apps built on Electron weigh half a gigabyte before you've played a single note.
Replay is a small, honest alternative:
- One library, two sources. Search and stream anything on YouTube, drop in your own MP3s, and they live side-by-side in the same playlists and likes.
- Actually native. Built with Tauri — a real desktop app with a Rust backend, not a browser wrapped in a window. The portable EXE is about 32 MB, startup is instant, and while playing it sits at around ~0.1% CPU and ~5 MB of RAM.
- Designed, not assembled. Custom titlebar, polished right-click menus, a full-screen now-playing view with synced lyrics, smooth animations. Built to feel good, not just to work.
- Yours. Your library, your playlists, and your playback history live locally in a single SQLite file. No account required.
Install
| Download | Best for | |
|---|---|---|
| 🗂 MSI installer | Replay_0.1.0_x64_en-US.msi |
Corporate deployments, winget, system-wide install |
| 📦 NSIS installer | Replay_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe |
Recommended for most users — adds Start Menu entry + uninstaller |
| ⚡ Portable | Replay.exe |
No install, no admin rights, run from anywhere |
Windows SmartScreen: Replay isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn on first run. Click More info → Run anyway.
Your data is stored under %APPDATA%\dk.brillient.replay\ and your local music files are expected in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Replay\Music\.
Building from source
Prerequisites:
- Node.js 18+
- Rust stable toolchain
- Windows build tools (Visual Studio C++ build tools — automatic via
rustup) yt-dlp.exe— download it and place it atsrc-tauri/binaries/yt-dlp.exe(it's bundled into the final binary)
# 1. Clone
git clone https://github.com/fpihl/Replay.git
cd Replay
# 2. Install JS deps
npm install
# 3. Drop yt-dlp.exe into src-tauri/binaries/
# Get it from https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases
# 4. Run in dev
npm run tauri dev
# 5. Build the production app
npm run tauri build
Artifacts land in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/ — both an MSI (msi/) and an NSIS installer (nsis/), plus a standalone Replay.exe one directory up.
Acknowledgements
Replay stands on the shoulders of:
- Tauri — for the native shell
- yt-dlp — for media resolution
- Svelte — for the UI framework
- LRCLIB — for community-contributed synced lyrics
License
MIT — see the LICENSE file for details.
Replay is not affiliated with YouTube, Google, or any of the services it integrates with.
