Building Audiqa in public

Audiqa is a local-first audio library manager for people who care about their music files. It focuses on correctness, transparency, and long-term ownership: scanning, organizing, deduplicating, and understanding audio collections without relying on cloud services or opaque algorithms.

The project grew out of a personal frustration. Existing tools either optimize for streaming, hide important technical details, or break down at scale when libraries become large, messy, or heterogeneous. Audiqa started as an attempt to answer a simple question seriously: what would a well-engineered audio manager look like if it treated music files as first-class data, not disposable inputs?

I am building Audiqa partly in public to make myself accountable and keep momentum. By sharing progress, design decisions, and trade-offs as they happen, I make the work visible — even when it is slow or uncomfortable. This space is also a log of learning: what works, what fails, and why certain paths are chosen over others.

The goal is not marketing polish, but an honest development trail that reflects real progress over time.

If you care about local music collections, careful software, or simply enjoy watching a project take shape from first principles, you’re very welcome here.