Turntable Listener

Your record player,
on your PC.

Plug in a USB turntable and hear it through your speakers or headphones, with the album cover, the song that's playing, a nudge when it's time to flip, and your vinyl on Discord and Last.fm.

Download for Windows All versions
Free · Windows 10 & 11 · No install needed
Turntable Listener playing a record: the album cover with a spinning record behind it, the current song scrolling, and music notes floating up.

Everything a record deserves

It listens to your turntable and works out what's happening, so you can just drop the needle.

Hear it, instantly

Plays your USB turntable through any speakers or headphones, with its own volume and a level meter.

Cover & song names

Search an album once to get its cover and tracklist by side. It follows along and shows what's playing.

Time to flip

Hears the arm lift at the end of a side and lets you know, with an optional chime.

Discord & scrobbling

Show "Listening to" with the album art on Discord, and log every song to Last.fm or ListenBrainz.

Your record shelf

Every album you play lands on a shelf of covers with play counts. Click one to put it back on.

Stylus hours

Counts how long the needle has been in the groove and reminds you when it's due for replacing.

A closer look

The backdrop takes its colours from the album you're playing, and the record bounces along to the music.

The player showing the current song, the next song, progress, and the tracklist split into Side A and Side B.
Now playing, with the tracklist by side
The Records shelf: a grid of album covers with how many sides have been played and when.
Your shelf of records and play counts
The player saying Side B finished, flip the record and press start.
It knows when a side has finished
Settings with audio devices, arm-up calibration and the stylus hours counter.
Settings, calibration and stylus hours

Up and running in a minute

No installer. A short setup finds your turntable and learns what its silence sounds like.

Download & unzip

Grab the zip, unzip it anywhere (Documents is fine), and open TurntableListener.exe.

Pick your turntable

Plug it in with USB. The setup suggests the right input, usually "USB Audio CODEC".

Drop the needle

That's it. Search for the album to get the cover and song names, and it takes care of the rest.

Windows may say "Windows protected your PC". That's normal for new apps from independent developers that aren't from a big company yet. Click More info, then Run anyway. You only need to do this once.

Questions

Which turntables does it work with?

Any turntable that connects to your PC with a USB cable and shows up in Windows as a recording device. That includes models from Sony, Audio-Technica and many others. Bluetooth-only turntables aren't supported.

How does it know which song is playing?

You search for the album once. It gets the tracklist and song lengths from MusicBrainz, starts timing when the music begins, and re-syncs at the quiet gap between songs. You can nudge it with the previous/next buttons or by dragging the progress bar.

Does it record or upload my music?

No. Sound from your turntable is only played and measured on your PC. Nothing is recorded or uploaded. See privacy below for what does go online.

What do I need?
  • Windows 10 or 11
  • A USB turntable
  • An internet connection for album covers, Discord and scrobbling (playing records works offline)
Privacy

Album searches go to MusicBrainz and covers come from the Cover Art Archive. Discord, ListenBrainz and Last.fm only see what you're playing if you turn them on. Once a day it checks GitHub for a new version. Your settings, history and sign-ins stay on your PC, and sign-ins are encrypted with your Windows account. There's no tracking or analytics.

Something isn't working

Please open an issue and say which turntable you have. If the app showed an error, attach crash.log (Settings → About → Open the data folder). For side-detection problems, turn on the diagnostics log in the same place, play a side, and attach levels.log.