Today Fibich is starting to feel less like a player for single tracks and more like a place to build a listening session.
Recently, the first playlist implementation landed in the app. It is still early, but it changes the rhythm of using Fibich. Instead of only selecting something from the library and playing it, there is now a dedicated space where tracks can gather, wait their turn, and become part of a longer flow.
That matters for a local music player.
A playlist is not just a list of songs. For people with their own music libraries, it is often the bridge between a collection and an actual listening mood. Maybe it is a few lossless albums for the evening. Maybe it is a folder of live recordings. Maybe it is a set of tracks pulled from different artists, formats, and years. The player needs to make that feel natural.
The library browser is now becoming one side of the experience, and the playlist is becoming the other. The app can begin to answer a more useful question: not only "what music do I have?" but "what do I want to listen to now?"
Today's work also brings the first improvements around how playlist items are shown. Metadata is starting to become more visible, which is important because a hi-fi audio library quickly becomes difficult to navigate if every track is treated like a plain filename. Track title, artist, album, and other details are the language of a real music collection.
This is one of those parts of the app where the goal becomes clearer through use. Playback needs controls, of course. But once playback exists, the next challenge is trust. Can I select music from my library? Can I see what is queued? Can I understand what is in front of me? Can the app keep enough context that I do not feel lost?
Fibich is beginning to answer yes.
There has also been some quiet restructuring under the surface. Some of the library item data is being kept simpler now, with an eye toward future persistence. That is not the most visible kind of progress, but it matters. If playlists are going to become durable, and if the app is eventually going to remember more of the user's music world, the data model needs to stay practical.
The current version is still only a beginning. Playlists will need more power: better sorting, selection, deletion, persistence, drag and drop, and eventually multiple playlists. But today the basic idea is alive inside the app.
Fibich can play music, and now it can begin to hold a queue of music with more intention.
That is a meaningful step toward the larger goal: a native macOS music player for local hi-fi libraries, with wide audio format support, clear metadata, library organization, and playlists that become part of the listening experience rather than an afterthought.