Petrichor
Petrichor is a native macOS music player for organizing and playing local audio libraries with broad format support and offline-first playback.
What is Petrichor?
Petrichor is a native music player for macOS built for people who keep and manage their own local music library. It helps you import music folders, organize tracks by metadata, and browse your collection by artists, albums, genres, composers, years, and other library views. The app supports a wide range of audio formats, including common lossy and lossless files, and it is designed to work well with large collections. Petrichor also includes playlists, smart playlists, a play queue, synced lyrics, Internet radio, and playback features such as gapless playback, crossfade, equalizer controls, and AirPlay 2 output. It integrates with macOS through native playback controls, dark mode, a mini player, and automation features, making it useful for listeners who want a desktop music experience centered on files they already own. Petrichor is published by Kushal Sunil Pandya.
Key features
- Import music folders and build a browsable local library
- Play more than 40 supported audio formats, including common lossless formats
- Browse music by artists, albums, genres, composers, years, and folders
- Create, import, export, and manage playlists and smart playlists
- Use synced lyrics, play queue controls, and sidebar pinning for faster navigation
- Stream Internet radio stations and organize saved stations into collections
- Adjust playback with gapless playback, crossfade, equalizer, ReplayGain, and AirPlay 2
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Petrichor is a legitimate music player for macOS. Access to user-selected folders is normal for an app that scans and plays local audio files, and optional network access is used for features such as updates, lyrics, artist information, Internet radio, and Last.fm scrobbling. Its library is offline by default, and online extras can be left disabled if you prefer a more private setup. Removing the app will stop access to its library organization, playlists, and playback features, but it is intended to leave your music files unchanged.
Recommendation: Keep Petrichor if you use it to manage or play a local music collection on your Mac. If you no longer use it, you can remove it like other third-party apps; doing so will only affect the app’s own library and playback experience, not the music files you have stored separately.
Common paths
/Applications/Petrichor.app
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