A home for your media

Your collection.
Ready to play.

Browse your music and movies in Bånder.
A media server you run on your own hardware.

Start hosting How Bånder works

Pre-release · Current installation builds from source

Bånder's music library in the browser, with album artwork and playback controls. — Music browsing and playback · Captured in Bånder

The equalizer

Find your sound.

Start with a preset or adjust the sound yourself. Compare settings and save profiles for the way you listen.

Graphic EQ and presets

A starting point.
Then your own adjustments.

Choose a preset, then adjust ten frequency bands to shape bass, mids and treble.

The live input analyzer shows the signal before EQ and gain. View its spectrum alongside the configured EQ curve, check left and right levels, or inspect the stereo phase.

Bånder's graphic equalizer, presets and live input analyzer. — Graphic EQ and input analyzer · Captured in Bånder

Parametric controls

See the shape of your EQ.

Switch to the parametric view to work with bands on a response graph. Drag a point to adjust its position and gain, and inspect the selected band's frequency, gain and Q value.

The curve shows the bands together, so you can see their boosts and cuts in one view.

Bånder's parametric equalizer with a response curve and selectable band points. — Parametric EQ · Captured in Bånder

Audio processing

More than frequency bands.

Adjust the compressor's threshold, ratio, knee, attack and release. Change stereo width or choose a crossfeed preset for headphone listening.

A loudness contour boosts bass and treble at low volume. Master gain and optional normalization with a loudness target give you separate controls over level.

Bånder's audio processing controls for compression, stereo width, crossfeed, loudness and master gain. — Audio processing · Captured in Bånder

Compare and keep

Hear the difference.
Keep what works.

Capture two sets of EQ and processing settings in A and B, then switch between them to compare.

Save your current settings to named device profiles. Keep a profile for your headphones and another for your speakers, and activate the one you want to use.

Bånder's A/B comparison slots and named device profiles. — A/B comparison and device profiles · Captured in Bånder

Your playlists

Choose the songs.
Or set the rules.

Pick songs yourself, or create smart playlists with rules that select music from your catalog.

Share playlists with other people on your server, and choose whether collaborators can change the track list.

Bånder's playlists view in the browser. — Playlists · Captured in Bånder

From files to playback

Your files. A connected library.

You provide the media and run the server. Bånder brings your music and movies into a catalog you can browse and play in your web browser.

Understand your instance

Connect your media
Add a library pointing to your media files. A scan discovers what's there; background work adds it to the catalog.
Browse your collection
Explore music and movies in the browser. Optional providers can add metadata, artwork and lyrics.
Choose something to play
Play from the original file, or use converted audio and video prepared by the worker deployment.

Running Bånder

Know what you're hosting.

Bånder is pre-release software. The current installation builds from source using a development-oriented Compose stack. You need to prepare the network, storage and credentials before starting it.

The web application uses PostgreSQL and Redis. Background work needs a separate control and execution deployment pair, shared media paths and output storage. Starting the web service alone does not start that pair.

Read the installation guide

Before your first scan

The components Storage and data Background work

Use the guide's checkpoints to verify your installation, catalog and playback.

The Bånder manual

Make yourself at home.

Understand your instance, install it and keep it running. Start at the beginning or go straight to the task in front of you.

Open the operator manual

Get started

Your collection.
Ready to play.

Find your sound.