A Henry Doce Project
Project Golden Record ·
In Development

Your music library is a mess.One Mac player puts it in order.

The same album scattered across folders, covers wrong, files faking hi‑res. It plays the music you own, and never changes a file without your say-so.

One email when it's ready.

You're on the list. I'll email you when it's ready.

NASA's Voyager spacecraft, carrier of the Golden Record

The round-trip you do forever.

One app cleans up your files. A different app plays them. So you bounce between the two.

App one
Where you fix it
Tags, album art, the messy folders. You sit here and clean.
App two
Where you listen
The player you actually live in. It can't fix anything.

Add one album and you're making the round-trip all over again.

What I'm building
One app you own

A native Mac player with the library layer built in. You fix a file and play it in the same place, so cleaning up your music stops being a separate trip to a separate app.

It never changes a thing without your say-so.

The library you spent years getting right stays exactly how you left it until you decide otherwise.

Concept · a plain review list, not a finished screen
Changes waiting for you 43 to review
Album cover
no artworkBlue Train, verified cover
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Album reassembled
tracks in 3 foldersone album, 9 tracks
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Artist name
"John Coltraine""John Coltrane"
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Quality label
tagged 24-bitactually 320kbps, relabeled
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Nothing is applied until you approve it. Every change reversible

What "keeps your files in order" means.

The library layer fixes the things that make an owned collection feel broken. All of it on files you already own, none of it required.

Concept · one album, scattered in pieces → reassembled
Kind of BlueMiles Davis · 1959
1So What 2Freddie Freeloader 3Blue in Green 4All Blues 5Flamenco Sketches

Verified album art

The right cover, at full resolution, on the right release. No more grey placeholder squares or a single mismatched front.

covers from Cover Art Archive

Synced lyrics

Time-aligned lyrics attached to the track, so they scroll with the song in the player instead of living in a browser tab.

lyrics from LRCLIB

Catches files that lie about quality

A 320kbps MP3 wearing a 24-bit label. An upsampled file padded out to look hi-res. It reads what's really in the file, not the tag, and flags the ones that don't match what they claim.

Carry it to your devices

Once your library's corrected on the Mac, sync the clean version out to the devices you listen on, so the cleanup follows you.

Your plays, your recommendations.

Every song you play gets counted, wherever you listen, into one place that's yours.

The Mac player
plays your library
Your iPhone
streams from your Mac
A scrobbling device
a DAP, or Android
One listening history
open and portable, yours to keep
your plays live in ListenBrainz
Recommendations

A streaming app's recommendations serve the company that runs it. Your recommendations come from your own play history.

Common questions.

Will it edit my files without asking?

No. The player proposes every change and waits for you to approve it. Nothing is written to a file until you say go, and any approved change can be undone. Your originals stay intact.

What does "reassembling an album" actually mean?

When one album's tracks are scattered, a few from a deluxe rip in one folder, the rest of the standard in another, a single mixed in elsewhere, it's technically the whole album, just filed as strangers. The player puts it back into one album with the right tracks in order. You approve the result, and nothing you want to keep is deleted.

How does it know a "hi-res" file is fake?

It decodes the file and checks the actual sound. A real hi-res track has detail up in the high frequencies; a CD upscaled to hi-res has dead air there, and an MP3 dressed up as 24-bit has nothing in the extra bits. When the sound doesn't match what the file claims, it flags it.

What does it run on?

A native player for your Mac, with a companion app for iPhone. The iPhone streams your library off the Mac, and whatever you play on either gets logged into one shared history.

What is Project Golden Record?

One app that plays the music you own and keeps the files themselves in order, native on your Mac with an iPhone companion. The name comes from the Golden Record, the gold-plated disc of Earth's music bolted to the Voyager probes, still playing as it drifts past the solar system. Built to be owned, offline, and to outlast us.

Get your library in order.

Be on the list for the player
that sorts it out.

It's in development. One email when it's ready.

You're on the list. I'll email you when it's ready.

Follow the build → @DoceHenry