Trackula
v0.1.1 — updated 30 August 2026 — Free for Windows
Trackula exists because syncing music to a phone shouldn't depend on what format the files happen to be in. Point it at your real music folder - FLAC, MP3, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, APE, OGG, Opus, WMA, whatever you've got - and it figures out what needs converting, what's missing cover art or metadata, and what should go on the phone, all without ever touching your original files unless you explicitly tell it to.
It's a Halloween-flavoured little app, built with C#, WPF, .NET and FFmpeg.
✦ What It Does
Getting Music Onto Your Phone
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Any format in
FLAC, ALAC, APE, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC/M4A, OGG Vorbis, Opus, WMA - converted (or passed through untouched) to whatever your device actually plays.
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Conversion Cache
Only re-converts a track when the source file actually changed - a re-sync of an unchanged library costs nothing.
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Works with real devices
Real file copy, MTP (Android), or an Apple Devices handoff - Trackula figures out which your phone needs and shows you a plain-English note either way.
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A hand-built Sync List
Drag albums or tracks in, or use "Add Recent Releases / Favorite Albums / Favorite Tracks / Hidden Gems" to build it for you in one click. Nothing syncs automatically that you didn't put there.
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Listening-history aware
Optionally reads real play data from Plex, Last.fm or ListenBrainz, so "Favorites" and "Hidden Gems" reflect what you actually listen to.
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Playlists
Your own, plus auto-generated Favorite Tracks / Hidden Gems Tracks playlists, all synced alongside the rest of your library.
Keeping Your Library Honest
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Purity Gate audit
Read-only scan for missing/undersized cover art, blank core tags, mislabeled compilations, and inconsistent numbering or spelling across an album.
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Library Fixer
Embed folder art, fetch art and metadata from Deezer/iTunes/MusicBrainz, edit tags, or approve a false positive - one fix at a time or across a whole album, always with an optional backup before anything is written.
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A real detail grid
Every track in your library, sortable, filterable by genre/artist/album/year/format, groupable, with reorderable columns you can show or hide - not a static tree.
✦ Screenshots
Local Music Collection — the whole library as a sortable, filterable grid
Synchronise List — build it by hand or one click at a time
✦ Changelog
v0.1.1 — latest
- About window: added a "Check for Updates" button next to Website/Email/Ko-fi.
v0.1.0
- First public installer, built with Inno Setup — win-x64 only, with a Windows startup option and an in-app auto-updater.
- Local Music Collection: replaced the old Artist/Album/Track tree with a full sortable, filterable, groupable detail grid (every field as a column, reorderable and persisted, plus genre/artist/album/year/format/in-sync quick filters).
- Audit & Fix Library: read-only Purity Gate scan for missing/undersized art, blank tags, mislabeled compilations and numbering/spelling issues, with one-click and whole-album fixes — embed folder art, fetch art/metadata online (Deezer, iTunes, MusicBrainz), edit tags, or approve an exception. The same fixes are also available directly from the collection grid's right-click menu.
- Sync List: drag tracks/albums in by hand, or one-click "Add Recent Releases / Favorite Albums / Favorite Tracks / Hidden Gems" — optionally informed by real listening history from Plex, Last.fm or ListenBrainz.
- Playlists, including auto-generated Favorite Tracks / Hidden Gems Tracks playlists.
- Device sync that adapts to what's plugged in — real file copy, MTP, or an Apple Devices handoff — with a storage-budget-aware trim.
- Conversion Cache keyed by source path + modified time, so a re-sync of an unchanged library costs nothing.