From Project Name to Shippable Player
Fibich moves toward release readiness with project renaming, notarized builds, dependency cleanup, visual polish, ordered drops, and playlist search.
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Follow the development of Fibich, a macOS music player for people who manage a local music library and care about lossless audio. These posts cover playback and library work for a FLAC player, metadata editor, CUE sheets, DSD support, and the everyday details of building a focused app for personal music collections.
Best Lossless Audio Formats in 2026
A practical guide to FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, WavPack, APE, DSD, and the perks of keeping a lossless music library.
Read the postChoosing Where the Music Plays
Fibich improves playlist enqueueing and library drag and drop, then adds a persistent macOS audio output device picker.
Read the postHandling the Messy Edges of Real Music Libraries
Fibich improves folder drops, external playlist tracks, album sorting, MP3 edge cases, CUE sheet playback, and queueing from the library.
Read the postMaking Large Playlists Behave
Fibich improves playlist scale, metadata synchronization, search, presentation snapshots, layout, and realtime track move handling.
Read the postMaking Fibich Feel Like a Daily Player
Fibich gets cleaner controls, a menu bar player, settings, artwork loading, performance tuning, and better metadata text repair.
Read the postKeeping the Library Alive
Fibich starts watching library folders, reconciling file changes, and keeping the music catalog connected to disk.
Read the postEditing the Music, Not Just Playing It
Fibich gains metadata editing with drafts, validation, read/write storage, tests, and a more focused sheet-based editor.
Read the postMaking Playlists Stay
Fibich adds SwiftData-backed playlist persistence so names, order, selection, and playlist items can survive beyond one session.
Read the postMaking the Playlist More Personal
Playlist metadata columns become configurable and draggable, while Show in Finder keeps Fibich connected to local files.
Read the postFrom Drag and Drop to Now Playing
Drag and drop, broader file support, visible durations, and macOS Now Playing integration make Fibich feel more native.
Read the postMore Than One Playlist
Multiple playlist tabs turn Fibich from one listening queue into a small workspace for different sessions.
Read the postOpening Music the Mac Way
Fibich starts accepting music files opened from macOS, making Finder part of the listening flow.
Read the postMaking the Playlist Easier to Read
Playlist columns become resizable and persistent, making the listening queue clearer and more comfortable to use.
Read the postFinding Music Once the Library Grows
Search and sorting arrive in the library browser, making larger local music collections easier to narrow down.
Read the postCleaning the Engine Room
Fibich gets a cleaner foundation with SFBAudioEngine via Swift Package Manager and a refactor around library loading.
Read the postMaking the Library Remember
Fibich is moving again, this time toward stronger persistence, clearer metadata, and a library that can remember its shape.
Read the postThe Playlist Starts to Matter
Fibich is starting to feel less like a player for single tracks and more like a place to build a listening session.
Read the postFrom Empty Window to First Playback
Fibich crossed an important line: basic playback, progress, seeking, and volume control are now part of the app.
Read the postWhy Build Another macOS Music Player?
Today I started building Fibich: a native macOS music player for people who still care about their own music files.
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