Jul 02, 2025 07:00:00

Nuclear is a desktop music player that allows you to listen to music from YouTube, SoundCloud, etc. for free without ads.

'Nuclear' is a

free software desktop music player that allows you to listen to music that is freely available on YouTube, SoundCloud, etc. without ads, and also allows you to search and download songs. I was curious about what kind of music player it was, so I actually tried using it.

Nuclear Music Player
https://nuclearplayer.com/

GitHub - nukeop/nuclear: Streaming music player that finds free music for you
https://github.com/nukeop/nuclear/

The developer describes Nuclear as 'a free music streaming program that gets its content from free sources on the Internet.' 'Imagine a free version of Spotify, but with a huge library.'

'Nuclear' can be downloaded from the distribution page below.

Nuclear Music Player
https://nuclearplayer.com/downloads

Select the OS you are using and click the button under 'Easy Install.'

When I ran the downloaded installer, the desktop app automatically opened.

On the dashboard there is an item called 'Trending Playlists' and clicking on it will open the playlist.

You can listen to the song by selecting it. Please note that there may be a few seconds of lag before it starts playing.

Click the heart icon at the bottom right of the player to adjust the playback speed. Loop and shuffle playback are also available.

The song being played is displayed on the right side of the player. Right-clicking on the song will display the source of the music track, and you can add it to your favorites by clicking 'Add to favorites.' You can also click 'Downloads' to download the MP3 file to your PC. YouTube is used to download songs.

Click the 'DOWNLOADS' tab on the left side of the player to view the songs you have downloaded.

Clicking the 'LYRICS' tab will display the lyrics of the song being played, but there are many cases where the lyrics are not displayed.

Clicking the 'PLUGINS' tab allows you to switch between music distribution services, metadata providers, lyric providers, etc.

Click on 'TOP TRACKS' in the center of the dashboard to view a ranking of popular songs on 'Nuclear.'

Click on 'GENRES' to find out popular artists and songs by genre.

Nuclear also has a search function, but it takes a long time to respond and the results are not very accurate, so I felt it required patience to use it.