What is Media?

Media is a music library that pulls from everywhere you already listen and reconciles it into one coherent view.

Your Plex server knows what files you own. Last.fm knows what you played. Spotify knows your playlists. Discogs and MusicBrainz know what the release actually is. Each of them has its own idea of what an "album" is, and none of those ideas agree.

Media's job is to make them agree.

Who it is for

Someone with a real music collection — a Plex library, years of scrobbles, and opinions about pressings — who wants one place that knows all of it at once.

What it does

• Reconciles sources onto canonical records. One artist, one album, one track, regardless of which source mentioned it.
• Builds an activity feed from what was added, what you played for the first time, and what is trending.
• Tracks what you own and what you want — collection and wishlist.
• Plays anything in your Plex library, streamed straight from your server, with a player that survives navigation.
• Builds radio stations seeded by an artist, album, track, genre or mood, and learns from your thumbs.
• Surfaces charts, genres and moods from your own listening.
• Enriches with covers, lyrics, credits and biographies.

What it does not do

• It does not download anything. deemon sits alongside it and is a separate, third-party project.
• It does not play what you do not own. Playback comes from your Plex server, so an album Media knows about from Discogs but that is not in Plex can be browsed and not heard.
• It does not modify your Plex library. Plex is read as a source of truth about what you own.
• It is not a tagger. It does not rewrite file metadata.

The one idea worth understanding

Everything in Media is keyed on canonical identities rather than on any one source's identifiers. That single decision is what makes a Last.fm scrobble, a Plex file and a Discogs release resolve to the same album — and it is why some things behave differently from what a single-source app would do. See Canonical records.