Quintodrome

A Tauri desktop app that wraps Navidrome — your self-hosted music server — into a native macOS/Windows application.

The server is bundled as a sidecar binary and managed automatically, so there's nothing to install, configure, or keep running: launch the app and it starts (and later shuts down) its own Navidrome instance for you.

This repository is a fork of Navidrome. Everything outside desktop/ is the upstream server + web UI; desktop/ is the Quintodrome wrapper around it.

What it does

On launch the app:

1. Checks whether a Navidrome server is already listening on 127.0.0.1:4533 (via its /ping health endpoint). If so, it reuses it as-is.
2. Otherwise it spawns the bundled navidrome binary as a separate sidecar process, pointed at the OS app-data/music directories, and waits for it to become ready.
3. Loads the Navidrome UI in the content webview, below a thin toolbar with back/forward/reload buttons and an address bar.
4. On exit, sends SIGTERM to the spawned server so it shuts down gracefully (falls back to a hard kill after 3s).

Batteries included:

• Auto-provisioning — on a fresh install the app creates the initial admin user (admin / admin) and logs in as it automatically, skipping both the "create an admin user" and login screens.
• Opted-out telemetry — Navidrome's insights collector is disabled by default.
• Masked address bar — the internal 127.0.0.1:4533 origin is shown as http://quintodrome.
• External links (Last.fm, artist pages, …) open in your default browser.
• Native editing shortcuts — Cmd+X/C/V/A/Z work in the web UI.
• Swipe navigation — two-finger swipe back/forward on macOS.

Quick start

# one-time: Node >= 24 (see .nvmrc), Go >= 1.26, Rust
just run

just run builds the Navidrome sidecar and launches the app. No just? See the desktop README for the plain commands, or install it with brew install just.

To wipe Navidrome's persistent state (database, cache) and start fresh:

just clean-state

Building a distributable

just bundle          # or: ./desktop/scripts/build.sh

This produces the platform's packaged app under desktop/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/ (e.g. macos/Quintodrome.app on macOS). Cross-platform binaries are built in CI — see .github/workflows/desktop.yml, which produces .app/.dmg on macOS and .exe/.msi on Windows for tagged releases.

Artifacts are unsigned (no Apple/Windows code-signing certs), so users will see Gatekeeper/SmartScreen prompts.

Configuration

Environment variables override the defaults:

Variable	Default	Purpose
QUINTODROME_HOST	127.0.0.1	Address the webview connects to
QUINTODROME_PORT	4533	Port for the Navidrome server
QUINTODROME_MUSIC_FOLDER	OS music dir (e.g. ~/Music)	Where your music lives
QUINTODROME_ADMIN_PASSWORD	admin	Password for the auto-created admin user (fresh installs only)
QUINTODROME_PUBLIC_URL	http://quintodrome	Friendly origin shown in the address bar

The data folder (database, cache) is always the OS app-data directory (e.g. ~/Library/Application Support/com.quintodrome.desktop on macOS).

Repository layout

.
├── desktop/          # Quintodrome: the Tauri wrapper (Rust + toolbar HTML)
│   ├── src-tauri/    #   sidecar spawn/health-check, lifecycle, menu, clipboard
│   ├── src/          #   toolbar.html (nav bar) + index.html (splash)
│   └── scripts/      #   build.sh, icon generator
├── ui/               # Navidrome web UI (React)
├── server/           # Navidrome HTTP server
├── core/             # Navidrome core (scanning, transcoding, …)
├── cmd/              # Navidrome entrypoint / CLI
└── Justfile          # run / bundle / sidecar / clean-state

For the details of building and running the desktop app directly, see desktop/README.md.

Development

Prerequisites:

• Rust (stable)
• Node.js ≥ 24 (pinned in .nvmrc)
• Go ≥ 1.26 (for building the Navidrome binary)

The Navidrome server is built with make build; the wrapper stages it as desktop/src-tauri/binaries/navidrome-<target-triple> and bundles it as a Tauri sidecar. See desktop/scripts/build.sh.

Acknowledgements

Quintodrome is built on Navidrome, an open-source web-based music collection server and streamer. All credit for the music server and web UI goes to the Navidrome project.