A music player for people who still listen to albums.

Yes. Since version 1.3 it is one universal app for iPhone and iPad, upright and sideways, and one purchase covers both — it is the same app, not a second one. On iPad the cover gets the room a big screen gives it and the player lays itself out for the size you are holding. An iPad also makes a good second screen on its own: turn that on in the app and the iPad shows the cover, title and the real format across the room while your phone stays free to browse for what to play next.

It means your music reaches the player exactly the way it's stored on your server, with every sample unchanged. When you play to a network player, the music doesn't go through the app at all. The app just tells the player which file to fetch, so nothing gets resampled, converted, equalised or turned up or down along the way. A 24-bit/192 kHz FLAC leaves your server as a 24-bit/192 kHz FLAC. If your server converts files on its own, the bit-perfect check will show you. What your player or DAC does after that is up to them.

The app checks every track. Your server tells it the bitrate of each file, and the app compares that with the size of the file the server actually sends. If they match, you see Bit-perfect. If they don't, you see Not bit-perfect, which means something is converting the stream. AirPlay always shows Not bit-perfect, because it resamples to 44.1 kHz / 16 bit. If there isn't enough information, you see Unverified. Tap the badge in the player for the details.

No. AirPlay resamples everything to 44.1 kHz / 16 bit, and Bluetooth uses a lossy codec. For bit-perfect playback, use a UPnP network player or a USB DAC plugged into your iPhone. With a USB DAC, the app asks for the original sample rate of every track.

Standard UPnP and DLNA servers should all work. We've tested it with Synology DiskStation, MinimServer and Asset UPnP. If yours gives you trouble, write to us. The app finds servers and players on your network by itself.

You don't need an account. The app is a subscription with a free trial, or you can buy it once as Lifetime. The App Store shows the prices for your country, and you pay and cancel through your Apple Account. There's no login of ours and no cloud, so playback only happens between your own devices. Two things do go online: if your server has no cover for an album, the app looks one up at MusicBrainz and the Cover Art Archive, and if you open the artist panel, it asks Wikidata and Wikipedia. Only artist and album names are sent to those non-profits. The privacy policy lists all of them.

It doesn't have a catalogue. It plays the files you already own, on the equipment you already own, at the quality you already paid for. Nobody is renting your music back to you.

That depends on your player or DAC, not on the app, because on a network player the app never touches the stream. In practice that means FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, OGG and DSD, at whatever resolution your equipment can handle.

Yes, if your player supports SetNextAVTransportURI, and most modern ones do. The app hands over the next track before the current one ends, so live albums play without a gap. If a player can't do it, the app notices and simply plays one track after the other.

Because the queue lives in the app. The UPnP standard your equipment uses only knows two commands: play this track, and play this one next. There's no way to hand a player a whole playlist, so the app has to pass the tracks along one at a time and stay awake to do it. It sends the next track before the current one ends, so locking your phone won't stop the music. Some players support the OpenHome extension and can hold a whole queue themselves, and the app uses that when it's there. Most streamers and amplifiers don't have it.

It's made for your home network. You can use it over a VPN back home, but there's no cloud service and no port forwarding. We left that out on purpose, for privacy.