Music is everywhere.

We live in an amazing time where all the music that has ever been composed, recorded and distributed is more or less a click away. As Michael Stevens pointed out, if you were to listen to all the music in the Gracenote database, one after the other, it will take you more than 1200 years. Never before in history have we had access to this vast amount of information, and as a society, we can’t even begin to grasp the benefits of the expansion of culture, knowledge, and diversity that this achievement brings.

The internet is ubiquitous, most people have access to information on their phones and computers all the time — but there is no single platform that brings your music collections into one single place. From user-uploaded services to subscription based ones, from thumb-drives to the cloud, our digital music collection lives in multiple spaces under different accounts all over the net. And while we’re switching from one service to another the music needs to stop… until now.

Tomahawk is what we call a music meta-player: a music player of music players. It brings all of your streams, downloads, cloud music storage, playlists and radio stations to the same place. We currently support Spotify, Beats Music, Google Play, Grooveshark, Youtube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Last.fm, Jamendo and Official.fm, while support for Rdio and Deezer is on its way for the desktop version. You can also link your iTunes music library (or any folder that contains a music file) or even stream from your friends’ local library (if they want to share it, of course).

All the major streaming services in one single place. If you’re missing something, you can even write your own.

Tomahawk is an open source project. This means that everyone is free to use it, study, share or modify Tomahawk under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3. It’s accessible to anyone, anywhere.

It’s also cross-platform and multi-device, so it will work independently if you’re on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows or Android. iOS will come soon.

Although Tomahawk has been in development since 2010, for the past months I’ve helped to rework the UX and UI so we can bring a much more simple, organized and beautiful experience to our users. Here’s how we’re planning Tomahawk to be for v 1.0:

Collection