Primuse

Primuse is a cross-source music player for people who actually care about their music. It brings your NAS, cloud drives, local files, and mainstream streaming services into one clean interface for playback, management, and curation, so you no longer juggle a dozen apps. Every Source In One Place - Major self-hosted NAS platforms from a range of vendors - Universal protocols: WebDAV, SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS, UPnP/DLNA - Self-hosted open-source media servers - Mainstream cloud drives and S3-compatible object storage - Full library and user-playlist sync with major streaming music services - On-device iPhone music Audiophile-Grade Playback - Native lossless decoding for FLAC, ALAC, WAV, DSD, and more - Hi-Res badge for high-resolution tracks - Gapless playback, zero silence between album tracks - Output sample-rate matching to avoid system resampling - ReplayGain auto-leveling - 0.5x-2x speed control on the fly Immersive Experience - Spatial audio with head tracking on compatible system headsets - Real-time spectrum visualizer - Word-level synced lyrics with optional system translation - Now Playing screen with cover-derived dynamic background - Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, widgets, and Apple Watch remote Smart Discovery - Song radio, a self-extending stream from any seed song - Similar songs from metadata features and public listener data - Smart playlists with grouped AND/OR rules across artist, album, genre, year, play count, and recency - Auto-generated year-end music report Powerful Search - Pinyin search to find Chinese songs by typing the pinyin - Full-text lyric search with snippet highlighting - Spotlight integration - Federated streaming-catalog search DLNA Receiver - Turn your iPhone into a standards-compliant UPnP/AV MediaRenderer - Compatible with mainstream DLNA controllers, which can cast directly to Primuse - Connected controllers and current cast shown live in Settings Smart Metadata - Multi-source scrapers backed by public music databases for covers and lyrics - One-tap cover and lyric write-back to NAS sidecars for cross-device sharing - Word-level lyric timing support - Tag editor: title, artist, album, year, genre, track, cover Playlists - Liked Songs, a system-level one-tap favorites list - User-built playlists - Smart playlists with rule-driven auto-update - Streaming-mirror playlists synced with their original structure, protected against accidental deletion - M3U8 and JSON import and export Offline and Cache - One-tap offline download for any track - Range-fetch streaming, seek without waiting for a full download - Smart LRU cache eviction, default 500MB and adjustable - Background prewarm for current and next track All Apple Surfaces - iPhone, iPad, CarPlay - Apple Watch independent widget and remote control - Home screen widgets for Now Playing and Quick Access - Dynamic Island Live Activity - AirPlay output - Spotlight library index Multi-Device Sync - iCloud Drive syncs playlists, history, settings, and soft-delete trash - Cross-device OAuth account dedupe Your Data, Respected - Zero telemetry, no usage tracking - OAuth tokens and credentials live in iOS Keychain - Multi-device sync uses your own iCloud Drive - Fully offline-capable except for streaming sources No subscription. No locked features. No ads.