diff --git a/ecosystem.config.cjs b/ecosystem.config.cjs
index 17a93b15..f197da01 100644
--- a/ecosystem.config.cjs
+++ b/ecosystem.config.cjs
@@ -36,5 +36,11 @@ module.exports = {
       args: 'run src/servers/sidecar/vnc/index.ts',
       watch: false,
     },
+    {
+      name: 'officer-music',
+      script: 'bun',
+      args: 'run src/servers/sidecar/music/index.ts',
+      watch: false,
+    },
   ],
 };
diff --git a/src/servers/api/music/router.ts b/src/servers/api/music/router.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..752a1974
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/servers/api/music/router.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import { createRouter } from '../../create-router';
+import { getMusicServerUrl } from './sidecar-server';
+
+// Thin reverse-proxy for /api/music/*. Auth is handled upstream by userMiddleware (this router mounts
+// under the protected /api tree, so the media `?token=` path works). Everything else — path resolution,
+// byte-range streaming, ffprobe duration — is done by the officer-music sidecar's audio server. We only
+// forward the subpath + query + Range and stream the response back.
+
+export const musicRouter = createRouter();
+
+const PREFIX = '/api/music';
+
+musicRouter.all('/*', async (ctx) => {
+  const baseUrl = getMusicServerUrl();
+  if (!baseUrl) return ctx.text('Music sidecar not available', 503);
+
+  const url = new URL(ctx.req.url);
+  const subpath = url.pathname.slice(PREFIX.length) || '/';
+  const target = `${baseUrl}${subpath}${url.search}`;
+
+  const range = ctx.req.header('range');
+  let upstream: Response;
+  try {
+    upstream = await fetch(target, {
+      method: ctx.req.method,
+      headers: range ? { Range: range } : {},
+    });
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error('[music] proxy fetch failed', { target, error: String(err) });
+    return ctx.text('Music sidecar unreachable', 502);
+  }
+
+  // Pass status + headers through and stream the body (206/Content-Range/X-Audio-Duration included).
+  return new Response(upstream.body, { status: upstream.status, headers: new Headers(upstream.headers) });
+});
diff --git a/src/servers/api/music/sidecar-server.ts b/src/servers/api/music/sidecar-server.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2b92611a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/servers/api/music/sidecar-server.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import * as sidecar from '@@/sidecar-registry';
+
+// The officer-music sidecar starts its audio-streaming HTTP server on a random port and reports it here
+// on connect. We remember it so `/api/music/*` always proxies to the current server.
+
+let serverPort: number | null = null;
+
+sidecar.on('music:server', (msg) => {
+  const port = (msg as { port?: number }).port;
+  if (typeof port !== 'number') return;
+  serverPort = port;
+  console.log(`[music] sidecar audio server registered on port ${port}`);
+});
+
+/** Base URL of the sidecar's audio server, or null if the sidecar hasn't reported in yet. */
+export function getMusicServerUrl(): string | null {
+  return serverPort ? `http://127.0.0.1:${serverPort}` : null;
+}
diff --git a/src/servers/hono.ts b/src/servers/hono.ts
index 92dab120..16ac3b57 100644
--- a/src/servers/hono.ts
+++ b/src/servers/hono.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ import { settingsRouter } from './api/settings/settings';
 import { dashboardsRouter } from './api/dashboards';
 import { taskLogsRouter } from './api/task-logs/task-logs';
 import { router as fileBrowserRouter } from './api/file-browser/router';
+import { musicRouter } from './api/music/router';
+import './api/music/sidecar-server'; // side-effect: capture the officer-music audio server port
 import { devServerRouter, devServerProxyRouter } from './api/dev-server/router';
 import { dockRouter } from './api/dock/dock';
 import { integrationsRouter, googleCallbackHandler } from './api/integrations/integrations';
@@ -86,6 +88,7 @@ protectedRouter.route('/user', settingsRouter);
 protectedRouter.route('/dashboards', dashboardsRouter);
 protectedRouter.route('/task-logs', taskLogsRouter);
 protectedRouter.route('/file-browser', fileBrowserRouter);
+protectedRouter.route('/music', musicRouter);
 protectedRouter.route('/dev-server', devServerRouter);
 protectedRouter.route('/dock', dockRouter);
 protectedRouter.route('/integrations', integrationsRouter);
diff --git a/src/servers/sidecar/music/index.ts b/src/servers/sidecar/music/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b93d1f8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/servers/sidecar/music/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+import type { SidecarCommand, SidecarEvent } from '../protocol';
+import { createSidecarConnector } from '../connect';
+import { streamAudioFile } from './stream-audio';
+
+// The music sidecar (officer-music). Same philosophy as the other officer-* sidecars: a singleton
+// process that registers with the API server. It OWNS an audio-streaming HTTP server (all path
+// resolution + streaming + ffprobe duration happens here); the platform API is just a thin proxy that
+// authenticates and forwards to us. The server listens on a random loopback port, reported to the API
+// on connect so it can route `/api/music/*` here.
+
+const API_URL = process.env.API_URL ?? `ws://127.0.0.1:${process.env.PORT ?? '5000'}`;
+
+// ── Audio-streaming HTTP server ──
+
+/** Grab an ephemeral free port by briefly binding one and releasing it. */
+function getFreePort(): number {
+  const probe = Bun.serve({ port: 0, hostname: '127.0.0.1', fetch: () => new Response('') });
+  const port = probe.port;
+  probe.stop(true);
+  if (port == null) throw new Error('failed to acquire a free port');
+  return port;
+}
+
+const port = getFreePort();
+
+const server = Bun.serve({
+  port,
+  hostname: '127.0.0.1',
+  async fetch(req) {
+    const url = new URL(req.url);
+    if (url.pathname === '/health') return new Response('ok');
+    if (url.pathname === '/stream') {
+      const path = url.searchParams.get('path');
+      if (!path) return new Response('path is required', { status: 400 });
+      return streamAudioFile(path, req.headers.get('range'));
+    }
+    return new Response('Not found', { status: 404 });
+  },
+});
+
+console.log(`[music] audio server listening on http://127.0.0.1:${port}`);
+
+// ── Command handlers ──
+
+type ReplyFn = (msg: SidecarEvent) => void;
+
+function handleCommand(cmd: SidecarCommand, reply: ReplyFn) {
+  switch (cmd.type) {
+    case 'ping':
+      reply({ type: 'pong', id: cmd.id });
+      break;
+
+    default:
+      reply({
+        type: 'error',
+        id: (cmd as SidecarCommand).id,
+        error: `Unknown command type: ${(cmd as Record<string, unknown>).type}`,
+      });
+  }
+}
+
+// ── Connect to API server ──
+
+const connection = createSidecarConnector({
+  apiUrl: `${API_URL}/api/sidecar/register`,
+  name: 'music',
+  capabilities: ['music'],
+  onCommand(cmd, reply) {
+    handleCommand(cmd as SidecarCommand, reply as ReplyFn);
+  },
+  onConnected() {
+    // Tell the API where our audio server is listening, so it can proxy /api/music/* here.
+    connection.send({ type: 'music:server', port });
+    console.log(`[music] reported audio server port ${port} to API`);
+  },
+});
+
+// ── Graceful shutdown ──
+
+function shutdown(signal: string) {
+  console.log(`[music] ${signal} received, shutting down...`);
+  try {
+    server.stop(true);
+  } catch {
+    /* already stopped */
+  }
+  connection.destroy();
+  process.exit(0);
+}
+
+process.on('SIGTERM', () => shutdown('SIGTERM'));
+process.on('SIGINT', () => shutdown('SIGINT'));
diff --git a/src/servers/sidecar/music/stream-audio.ts b/src/servers/sidecar/music/stream-audio.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f0eeaa8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/servers/sidecar/music/stream-audio.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+import { stat } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { resolve, sep } from 'node:path';
+import { homedir } from 'node:os';
+
+// All processing lives here (the platform is just a proxy). Files live under the owner's home — single
+// super user, so HOME_DIR. Paths from the app are home-relative (e.g. "Music/Artist/Album/track.mp3"),
+// exactly like file-browser /raw.
+const ROOT_DIR = process.env.HOME_DIR ?? homedir();
+
+const CONTENT_TYPES: Record<string, string> = {
+  mp3: 'audio/mpeg',
+  m4a: 'audio/mp4',
+  mp4: 'audio/mp4',
+  aac: 'audio/aac',
+  flac: 'audio/flac',
+  wav: 'audio/wav',
+  ogg: 'audio/ogg',
+  opus: 'audio/opus',
+  wma: 'audio/x-ms-wma',
+};
+
+// Probe duration once per file (keyed by absolute path + mtime) — the player makes many range requests
+// per track, and we don't want to shell out to ffprobe on each one.
+const durationCache = new Map<string, number>();
+
+async function probeDuration(absPath: string, mtimeMs: number): Promise<number | undefined> {
+  const key = `${absPath}:${mtimeMs}`;
+  const cached = durationCache.get(key);
+  if (cached !== undefined) return cached;
+  try {
+    const proc = Bun.spawn(
+      ['ffprobe', '-v', 'error', '-show_entries', 'format=duration', '-of', 'default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1', absPath],
+      { stdout: 'pipe', stderr: 'ignore' },
+    );
+    const out = (await new Response(proc.stdout).text()).trim();
+    await proc.exited;
+    const d = parseFloat(out);
+    if (Number.isFinite(d) && d > 0) {
+      durationCache.set(key, d);
+      return d;
+    }
+  } catch {
+    /* ffprobe missing or failed — no duration header */
+  }
+  return undefined;
+}
+
+/** Resolve a home-relative path within ROOT_DIR; null if it escapes (traversal). */
+function resolveWithinRoot(relPath: string): string | null {
+  const clean = relPath.replace(/^\/+/, '');
+  const abs = resolve(ROOT_DIR, clean);
+  if (abs !== ROOT_DIR && !abs.startsWith(ROOT_DIR + sep)) return null;
+  return abs;
+}
+
+/** Serve an audio file with byte-range support + an X-Audio-Duration header (ffprobe-derived). */
+export async function streamAudioFile(relPath: string, rangeHeader: string | null): Promise<Response> {
+  const absPath = resolveWithinRoot(relPath);
+  if (!absPath) return new Response('Invalid path', { status: 400 });
+
+  let s;
+  try {
+    s = await stat(absPath);
+  } catch {
+    return new Response('Not found', { status: 404 });
+  }
+  if (!s.isFile()) return new Response('Not a file', { status: 404 });
+
+  const total = s.size;
+  const ext = absPath.slice(absPath.lastIndexOf('.') + 1).toLowerCase();
+  const contentType = CONTENT_TYPES[ext] ?? 'application/octet-stream';
+  const duration = await probeDuration(absPath, s.mtimeMs);
+  const file = Bun.file(absPath);
+
+  const baseHeaders: Record<string, string> = {
+    'Content-Type': contentType,
+    'Accept-Ranges': 'bytes',
+    ...(duration ? { 'X-Audio-Duration': String(duration) } : {}),
+  };
+
+  if (rangeHeader) {
+    const m = rangeHeader.match(/bytes=(\d*)-(\d*)/);
+    if (m) {
+      const start = m[1] ? parseInt(m[1], 10) : 0;
+      const end = m[2] ? parseInt(m[2], 10) : total - 1;
+      if (Number.isNaN(start) || start < 0 || end >= total || start > end) {
+        return new Response('Invalid range', { status: 416, headers: { 'Content-Range': `bytes */${total}` } });
+      }
+      return new Response(file.slice(start, end + 1), {
+        status: 206,
+        headers: { ...baseHeaders, 'Content-Range': `bytes ${start}-${end}/${total}`, 'Content-Length': String(end - start + 1) },
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  return new Response(file, { status: 200, headers: { ...baseHeaders, 'Content-Length': String(total) } });
+}
diff --git a/src/servers/sidecar/protocol.ts b/src/servers/sidecar/protocol.ts
index 22bac0e6..d4aa9124 100644
--- a/src/servers/sidecar/protocol.ts
+++ b/src/servers/sidecar/protocol.ts
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ export type SidecarEvent =
   | { type: 'opencode:event'; sessionKey: string; event: ChatEvent }
   | { type: 'opencode:session'; sessionKey: string; sessionId: string }
   | { type: 'opencode:error'; id: string; error: string }
+  // Music — the sidecar reports where its audio-streaming HTTP server is listening (random port) on connect
+  | { type: 'music:server'; port: number }
   // Generic
   | { type: 'error'; id?: string; error: string };