Still mixing the final track — Kalinka is under construction. Launching soon.
Rediscover your music

Your whole collection —
finally understood.

Kalinka plays the music you already own, indexes every track, fixes the messy tags, and lets you find anything just by describing the mood you are in.

Available for
Linux macOS Windows Any Linux SBC
Spiegel im Spiegel
Arvo Pärt
A Case of You
Joni Mitchell
Re: Stacks
Bon Iver
SCREENSHOT — MAIN WINDOW Drop a wide screenshot of the Kalinka player / search view here.
Why Kalinka

Built for people who
still own their music

No subscription, no cloud library, no middleman. Kalinka runs on your machine and works with the files you already have — and makes sense of them.

Free & local-first

Completely free and runs on your own hardware. Your library never leaves your machine — no accounts, no tracking, no monthly fee.

Your collection, indexed

Point it at your folders and Kalinka scans every track, building a fast, searchable index of everything you own.

AI mood search

Find music by describing it. “Something melancholic for tonight” returns the right tracks from your library — no playlists required.

Fixes missing tags

Untitled tracks, blank artists, wrong albums — Kalinka detects gaps and identifies the right metadata automatically.

Organised properly

Once tagged, your library sorts itself into clean artists, albums and genres — the structure you always wished it had.

Bit-perfect playback

Currently supports MP3 and FLAC, with gapless playback. Bit-perfect output is available for supported formats, but it is most meaningful with FLAC where there is no lossy compression.

Your library

From a mess of files
to a real collection

Most music libraries are a graveyard of track01.mp3 and blank artist fields. Kalinka indexes the lot, works out what each track actually is, and puts it in order.

  • Indexes everythingOne scan catalogues your entire collection, however large or scattered across drives.
  • Detects missing names & tagsBlank titles, wrong artists, missing albums and years — spotted and filled in automatically.
  • Organises it properlyClean artist / album / genre structure, ready to browse — and to search by mood.
BACKGROUND INDEXINGruns automatically
Step 1: Index files in your music folders
Kalinka catalogs MP3 and FLAC in the background while you keep listening.
Step 2: Fill missing metadata using multiple signals
Embedded tags, filename/folder hints, and AcoustID fingerprint matching.
Step 3: Build a clean, searchable library
Consistent artist, album, and track data for browsing and AI mood search.

Bring Kalinka home

Free, local-first, and yours. Point it at your music and let it do the rest.

Linux · macOS · Windows · runs on any Linux SBC