Nuclear is a cross-platform desktop music player built with Tauri, React, Rust, and TypeScript. It can search for songs and artists, manage playlists and queues, and load plugins from a built-in store. It also exposes an MCP server so agents can drive the player.
Builders who want a desktop music player with plugin support and agent control.
You can listen to music from free sources and let an agent control the player through MCP.
Search for songs or artists and stream music from available sources.
Browse biographies, discographies, similar artists, and track listings.
Use shuffle, repeat, drag-and-drop reordering, and playlist import or export.
Install plugins from the built-in store or write your own with @nuclearplayer/plugin-sdk.
Enable the MCP server in Settings → Integrations and connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or other clients.
Use built-in themes, custom CSS themes, keyboard shortcuts, and multiple languages.
git clone https://github.com/nukeop/nuclear.git cd nuclear pnpm install pnpm dev
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.
Nuclear comes with multiple built-in themes:
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| Artist search | Album search |
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| Playlists | Plugin store |
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| Installed plugins | Preferences |
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| What's new | Log viewer |
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 |
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.
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:
codex mcp add nuclear --url http://127.0.0.1:8800/mcp
OpenCode:
{
"mcp": {
"nuclear": {
"type": "remote",
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:8800/mcp"
}
}
}
Claude Desktop / Cursor / Windsurf:
{
"mcpServers": {
"nuclear": {
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:8800/mcp"
}
}
}
The MCP is designed to be discoverable, but there's a skill you can load to get your AI up to speed: Nuclear MCP Skill
Nuclear is a pnpm monorepo managed with Turborepo. The main app is built with Tauri (Rust + React).
git clone https://github.com/nukeop/nuclear.git
cd nuclear
pnpm install
pnpm dev
pnpm dev # Run the player in dev mode
pnpm dev:remote # Same, but binds Vite to 0.0.0.0 so you can open the remote control UI from other devices on your LAN
pnpm build # Build all packages
pnpm test # Run all tests
pnpm lint # Lint all packages
pnpm type-check # TypeScript checks
pnpm storybook # Run Storybook
AGPL-3.0. See LICENSE.
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