Choose it. Play it.
Click a track in Now Playing to select it in the existing queue. Spotify playlists and Bandcamp Radio use the configured home route.
DEBIAN 13 · AMD64 · R1 REVISION 29 · 21 OCTOBER 2026
Meet Core R1.
Your collection, connected.
A fresh Home screen, direct queue control and one place for albums, live recordings, radio, podcasts, books and your own videos. This is the published Debian Core R1 ISO.
4.73 GB · Dedicated system drive · Read the installation guide
Keep browsing
Listening pages keep their loaded shelves, search and scroll position when you return. Changes refresh in the background.
Bring your recordings
Phone videos can start and seek without making another complete copy. Keep books, concerts and other media in their own collections.
REAL DEBIAN CORE R1 · 21 OCTOBER 2026
See R1 in use.
These are screenshots from the running R1 build. Open any image to see the full screen. The example collection and speaker belong to the test installation.
Home
Your current album, home speaker and everyday listening shortcuts in one place.
Your Music
Browse album artwork, search the collection, play an album or add it to the queue.
Bootlegs & live recordings
Keep live recordings together, with artwork, artist and venue information.
Now Playing
Choose a queued track, clear the queue and follow the current playback on your selected speaker.
Internet radio
Find stations by name or genre, then choose a station to play.
Podcasts
Search programmes and keep saved shows together as artwork tiles.
Audiobooks
A separate shelf for books, with original chapters and recordings retained.
Spotify playlists
Your playlists and music search, with a direct Play playlist action.
Bandcamp Radio
Browse programmes and play through the configured home speaker.
Your videos
Add your own recordings from a folder, including large phone videos.
Core Settings
Manage media storage, audio outputs, Meridian/Sooloos, services and diagnostics.
DEBIAN CORE R1 · SYSTEM & MEDIA
A home for Core.
Room for your collection.
Use a dedicated system drive, then connect the disks or network shares that hold your music, books and videos.
System drive
96 GiB minimum; a 128 GB or larger SSD is recommended. Core creates its A/B system slots, protected recovery slot and persistent application storage on this drive. Installation erases the system drive you select and confirm.
Media storage
Use separate media disks or an existing network share. Selecting music disks during installation records your choices; configure and mount the media in Core Settings after installation.
Computer or full VM
Debian 13 amd64 on an Intel or AMD 64-bit computer. For a full VM, start with 4 CPU cores and 8 GB RAM. The ISO installs its own operating system and is not an LXC image.
READY TO INSTALL
Download Debian Core R1.
Revision 29 brings the accepted playback, media and storage fixes into the bootable R1 installer.