STARPLAYER. Ad-free, private, and highly customizable music player app

UI Design · Frontend Development · Desktop Application Development

This is a personal music player project that combines retro-inspired interface design with modern frontend development. Inspired by my favorite design aesthetics, it explores how a familiar desktop experience can become more expressive, customizable, and enjoyable to use.

The interface brings together pixel-style typography, neon accents, layered windows, and distinctive visual themes. Instead of limiting the experience to a single aesthetic, STARPLAYER features five built-in skins and a custom skin builder, allowing the interface to change without modifying the underlying UI components.

Design & Development

I worked on building a cohesive visual experience supported by a modular frontend architecture. The desktop application uses React, TypeScript, Vite, and Tauri, with shared packages for UI components, application logic, and theme configuration.

Key features include:

Customizable interface: Five visual themes, including Vaporwave, Neo-Brutalist Cute, Gradient Glass, Monochrome Retro, and Soft Glass.

Personal music library: Local music file scanning, embedded metadata reading, and a library stored in SQLite.

Adaptive visual themes: Options for manual theme selection, random themes on launch, and beat-adaptive styling based on cached BPM-derived mood data.

Reusable UI components: A skin system built around shared design tokens and CSS custom properties.

Desktop-focused experience: A Tauri-powered desktop application combining web technologies with native capabilities.

Tools & Technologies

React · TypeScript · Vite · Tauri · Rust · CSS Modules · pnpm · SQLite

The Idea Behind the Project

STARPLAYER is an exploration of the intersection between interface design, frontend engineering, and great user experience (ad-free and private). It demonstrates my interest in building applications where UX, visual identity and functionality work together, from the underlying component architecture to the smallest interface details.

I enjoy creating digital experiences that feel distinctive while remaining practical to use. This project reflects that approach through a customizable visual system and a desktop music player designed around personal expression.

Interested in working together? I design and develop websites, interfaces, and digital products, combining visual design with frontend development to bring ideas to life.

Explore the source code on GitHub · Read the project article on Substack