Today I started building Fibich.
The idea is simple, but it has been sitting in my head for a while: a native macOS music player for people who still care about their own music files.
Most music apps today are built around streaming, subscriptions, recommendations, and catalogs that live somewhere else. That is useful, of course. But it does not fully serve the listener who has a carefully collected local music library, lossless albums, unusual audio formats, archived releases, live recordings, and folders arranged with intention.
Fibich started from that place.
The goal is not to build just another player with a play button and a playlist. I want Fibich to become a focused hi-fi audio player for Mac: one that can handle local music libraries, support a wide range of audio formats, keep playlists durable, expose metadata clearly, and feel like a proper native macOS app.
Right now, the project is still at the beginning. There is a codebase, an app skeleton, and the first pieces of the foundation. But even at this stage, the direction matters. If Fibich is going to be useful, it needs to respect the way people actually store and listen to music.
That means more than playback.
A serious local music player needs to understand folders, tracks, albums, artists, metadata, file formats, and playlists that should still be there tomorrow. It needs to work well with macOS, not against it. It should feel comfortable next to Finder, media keys, system playback controls, and the habits Mac users already have.
It also needs to care about the less glamorous parts of music collections. Tags are not always clean. Files move. Albums may come with artwork, CUE sheets, or inconsistent metadata. Some collections are small and tidy; others are large, old, and full of strange little details. A good player should not fall apart the moment a library becomes real.
That is the long-term ambition for Fibich: wide format support, durable playlists, library organization, metadata tools, and macOS playback integration in one native player.
I do not expect all of that to appear at once. The first step is simply to give the project a shape and start moving. From here, I want to build in public notes: what changed, what problem appeared, what became easier, what still feels rough, and how each step brings Fibich closer to being a reliable music player for local hi-fi collections.
Today is mostly the starting line.
But it is an important one. Fibich now exists, and the goal is clear: build a Mac music player that treats your own music library as the main event.