Vinyl 0.1.0 Beta: put the record on 💿

Your music, spinning on your desktop. This is the first public beta of Vinyl, a free, open-source macOS app that turns whatever you're playing into a living desk scene.

What's in the box

• 💿 A record that spins at 33⅓ rpm while music plays, with the album art on its label. It coasts to a stop when you pause.
• 🎚 A tonearm that lifts, swings over and tracks the song's progress.
• 🛋 Three scenes: Listening Room, After Hours and Turntable.
• 🎧 Works with YouTube Music / YouTube in your browser, Spotify, Apple Music, and anything in Control Center's Now Playing.
• 🗂 A pile of your last 5 songs on the desk. Click it to play one again.
• 🖼 Automatic high-resolution covers, even when the browser only shares a thumbnail.
• 🪶 Menu bar only, no Dock icon. About 0% CPU when paused.

Install

1. Download Vinyl-0.1.0-beta.dmg below.
2. Open it and drag Vinyl into Applications.
3. Open Vinyl. If macOS says it can't verify the app (this beta isn't notarized yet), go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway, or run:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Vinyl.app

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon or Intel (universal).

Permissions

All optional, and asked only when needed: Automation for your browser (to replay YouTube songs from the pile) and for Spotify / Music (to replay exact tracks), plus Login Items if you enable Launch at Login. No Screen Recording, Accessibility or Full Disk Access. No analytics. Full details →

Beta notes

• Developed and tested on macOS 15 (Apple Silicon). The Intel build and macOS 14 are untested so far; reports are very welcome.
• Desktop icons sitting exactly over the record pile can't be clicked while the pile is shown.

Found a bug or have a scene idea? Open an issue. Enjoying it? A ⭐ helps others find it.

SHA-256: 0cffe962abc976a02ea1eb4f703ba11773661be6a98af85af14f0ef4f3fc77c5