vAudio
A music library that leaves your files exactly where they are.
The problem
Every music program that decides where your files should live eventually gets uninstalled, and the collection it was looking after is left in a shape only that program understood: renamed, re-foldered, or sitting inside a database nothing else can open. People learn this once and then never trust a music library again.
What most people actually want is not a program that manages their music. It is a way to see what they have — by album, by artist, by year — to find the album that only half copied, to find the same song sitting in three folders, and to play any of it, without a single file moving.
What it does
1It only ever keeps a list of paths
vAudio does not import, copy, move, rename or convert anything, and there is no code path in it that could. Your files keep their names and stay in the folders you put them in. Uninstall it and your music is exactly as it was.
2Opens quickly, and again quickly
A track is only re-read when its size or modified date has actually moved. The first scan of a big collection takes a while; every one after that takes seconds.
3Albums, artists, genres, years, folders
Grouped the way people think about music rather than the way the filesystem does — including compilations, which come out as one album rather than one album per track artist.
4It plays
MP3, FLAC, M4A, WAV, Ogg and Opus, in the app, with a queue and a real shuffle — one that plays everything before repeating anything, which is what the word means.
5Finds the same song twice
Matched on artist, title and length, so two different songs sharing a name are not reported. The best copy is listed first. vAudio deletes nothing; it shows you and you decide.
6Shows you what is missing
How many tracks have no title, no artist, no cover — and which albums have gaps in their numbering, which is what tells you a rip stopped halfway.
7Playlists that work anywhere
Saved as .m3u8 files with paths relative to the playlist itself, so the folder can be copied to a USB stick and still work. They open in VLC, on a phone and in a car.
8Tag editing is vTag’s job
The Edit button opens vTag on that folder and vAudio picks the changes up when you come back. Building a second, worse tag editor inside the library would have been the easy thing and the wrong one.
Why it is worth it
The index is only an index. Point it at a collection, look, and if you do not like it, uninstall it — there is nothing to undo, because nothing was done to your files.
Tracks whose files cannot be found are marked, not dropped, until you say otherwise. A network share that is not mounted this morning is not the same thing as music that has gone.
No cover-art lookups, no "identify this track", nothing uploaded. vAudio has no network side at all.
Audio reaches the window through a scheme that serves a file only if it is already in the library. Everything else is refused. The part of the app that renders text out of arbitrary tags cannot also ask for any file on the machine by name.
How you use it
From the app, or right-click any folder in Explorer and choose "Add this folder to vAudio".
Albums, artists, genres, years. The panel on the left says how much of it there is and what is missing.
Double-click anything. Queue an album, shuffle the lot, or open a playlist you already had.
Right-click and edit the tags; vAudio picks the changes up when you come back.
What it needs
| Windows | 10 or 11, 64-bit |
|---|---|
| Installs to | Your user profile — no administrator prompt |
| Reads | MP3, FLAC, M4A and MP4, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, WAV, AIFF, Windows Media |
| Plays | MP3, FLAC, M4A, WAV, Ogg and Opus |
| Network | None — vAudio never connects to anything |
What it is not, said plainly
vAudio is not a tag editor and not a file organiser. It will not rename your files, will not sort them into folders, and will not change a tag — that is vTag’s job, and vAudio opens it for you rather than doing a worse version of it.
It is also not a replacement for whatever plays music on your machine today. It plays what Windows can already decode; an old Windows Media file will show in the library and open in another program rather than playing in the app, and vAudio says so rather than failing silently.
See vAudio on your own machine
A short screen-share is usually enough — we open it on your PC, with your files.
Or write to info@issmart.in.
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