Cadence - music player
Stream your own music.
Only for Mac
$4.99
Cadence is a privacy-first Subsonic client built for Navidrome. It puts your music first and presents your library in a native, easy-to-navigate app.
Key features
- Seamless Navidrome and Subsonic integration
- Gorgeous album and artist art: queue up entire artists or individual albums in a tap
- Intuitive browsing focused on artists, albums, genres and search
- Playlists: browse, create and edit them, everywhere you use Cadence
- Favorite artists, albums and songs, rate anything with stars, and filter by favorite or Top Rated
- Synced lyrics that highlight line by line as they play
- Downloads for offline listening, with storage management and an Offline Mode switch
- Pick up where you left off on any device: your queue and playback position follow you
- Home Screen, Lock Screen and desktop widgets, plus Siri and Shortcuts support
more Simple, clean app that does one thing and does it well and looks and feels native, all of which are surprisingly hard to find on macOS. Highly recommended!
Simple, clean app that does one thing and does it well and looks and feels native, all of which are surprisingly hard to find on macOS. Highly recommended!
FIXED: favoriting a track in a playlist updates more reliably.
FIXED: favoriting an album or artist from the albums or artists grid updates more reliably.
4.2.7 1d ago
IMPROVED: cached content loads more quickly on the home view.
FIXED: issues where not all songs would load in the library songs view.
FIXED: the home view could hang or stop refreshing when iCloud was slow to respond.
4.2.6 4d ago
FIXED: bug where genre elements could fail to load throughout the app.
4.2.4 6d ago
IMPROVED: network status icon VoiceOver announcements.
FIXED: case where some artists would show "You're Offline" instead of their downloaded music when offline.
4.2.3 Oct 30
IMPROVED: performance of download buttons and the artists filter.
FIXED: the songs list stays available offline.
FIXED: a case where a song could fail to transition to the next one in the queue.
4.2.2 Oct 29
IMPROVED: seeking and moving between songs is more reliable.
IMPROVED: cover art is shared across the app.
IMPROVED: background downloads pause when the song playing needs more data.
FIXED: stream retries respect the server's requested wait.
FIXED: refreshing songs no longer clears the saved list when a server returns an ambiguous response.
FIXED: a successful empty collection refresh is handled separately from a failed request.
4.2.1 Oct 24
FEATURE: internet radio. Play stations from your server and server admins can add, edit and remove stations.
FEATURE: play next, for any song, album, artist or playlist.
FEATURE: autoplay plays instant mix tracks when your chosen queue ends.
FEATURE: play or pause and shuffle library controls for Control Center.
FEATURE: artist pages sort releases into albums, EPs, singles, live recordings, compilations and appearances.
FEATURE: save your queue as a playlist.
FEATURE: play a playlist with Siri or Shortcuts.
FEATURE: normalize volume in settings to even out tracks using your servers volume levels.
IMPROVED: jumping ahead in a song resumes playback more quickly.
IMPROVED: downloaded songs sync metadata changes made on your server.
IMPROVED: navigation performance during playback.
IMPROVED: better VoiceOver labels.
FIXED: case where sign in state would be forgotten if your server could not be reached.
FIXED: a rejected password at launch looked like being offline.
FIXED: clicking next/previous while a song was loading could be ignored.
FIXED: song could restart when connecting to wifi.
FIXED: songs played offline were scrobbled with the time they were sent rather than the time they were listened to.
FIXED: gapless playback could fail to prep the next track.
FIXED: properly refresh data on home page.
FIXED: search could include stale data.
FIXED: issue where downloads would persist after switching accounts.
4.2.0 Oct 21
IMPROVED: upcoming songs are prepped one at a time, reducing server load.
FIXED: songs converted by server while streaming no longer pause or fail at the end.
FIXED: a brief server error during a song no longer cuts it short.
FIXED: issue where streams on a weak connection could retry unnecessarily.
4.1.14 Oct 10
FIXED: bug where refreshing an artist view would fail to persist newly added albums.
4.1.13 Oct 8
FIXED: Continuing a song from your iPhone now starts where you left off instead of from the beginning.
4.1.12 Oct 3
FIXED: bug where album name would not update on refresh.
4.1.11 Oct 1
IMPROVED: Playing, queuing or downloading everything by an artist starts faster and works offline.
IMPROVED: Less background work after signing in and when your library refreshes.
FIXED: Some albums showed a placeholder cover instead of their artwork.
FIXED: Media keys were ignored while FaceTime, Zoom or Teams was in front.
FIXED: Recently Added and Frequently Played could go blank when a refresh failed.
FIXED: A favorite changed offline could be undone before it reached your server.
FIXED: Album lists could stop loading more after a single failed request.
FIXED: The cache health rating in Settings could show the wrong level.
4.1.10 Sep 28
FIXED: routing bug that could cause artist view backgrounds to fail to load.
4.1.9 Sep 24
FIXED: A song that stalled could sit on the spinner instead of resuming.
FIXED: Fixed quality issues with repeated retries.
FIXED: A short song could use up its reconnection attempts on a flaky connection.
4.1.8 Sep 21
FIXED: rendering bug impacting background on artist and album views.
4.1.7 Sep 16
FIXED: disable routing to artists who have no songs.
4.1.6 Sep 15
FIXED: critical bug where albums with multiple artists would not render or route properly.
4.1.4 Sep 15
FIXED: Clicking the artist in the now playing bar did nothing for some songs, especially ones with a featured artist.
FIXED: Very short tracks, and tracks from some servers, could stop at the end instead of moving on to the next song.
FIXED: When deleting a playlist, the confirmation could briefly lose the playlist's name as it closed.
4.1.3 Sep 15
FIXED: rendering bugs for a few different loading states in the app.
4.1.2 Sep 4
IMPROVED: update album note design to match artist bios.
FIXED: strip HTML from album notes.
4.1.1 Aug 27
FEATURE: Explore a Genre, a new way to start listening from Home — pick a genre out of your library and go.
FEATURE: Album notes on album pages, where your server has them.
IMPROVED: Streaming holds up far better on an unreliable connection. A track that loses its connection now picks itself back up instead of stopping for good.
IMPROVED: Picking a track back up from another device starts where you left off straight away, rather than waiting to catch up first.
IMPROVED: Instant mixes can use your server's own analysis of your music, so "more like this" means what actually sounds alike in your library.
IMPROVED: A track you have streamed is kept for next time instead of being fetched all over again.
IMPROVED: Lyrics show the song's own words rather than a translation, when both are available.
FIXED: Artwork could go missing from the widget and the Now Playing display until the app was restarted.
FIXED: Starting a new album while a track was almost over could leave the new track showing the wrong position.
FIXED: Very large playlists now save reliably.
4.1.0 Aug 26
FIXED: play albums in order from oldest to newest when clicking play on an artist page.
4.0.1 Aug 22
FEATURE: Now Playing widgets on the desktop.
FEATURE: Playlists — browse, create and edit them.
FEATURE: Star ratings behind the heart, and a Top Rated section.
FEATURE: Lyrics in a trailing panel, synced and highlighted line by line as they play (⌘\).
FEATURE: Downloads on Mac — start, manage and free up space, with an Offline Mode switch.
FEATURE: Your queue and playback position can sync through your own server too, not just iCloud — it survives reinstalling the app and needs no Apple account. Long tracks remember where you stopped, across devices.
IMPROVED: The widget puts the artwork front and center, with buttons that are easier to hit and read.
IMPROVED: Playback controls have their own Controls menu, with shuffle and repeat.
IMPROVED: Browsing is faster on large libraries.
IMPROVED: Cadence launches faster.
IMPROVED: VoiceOver announces the scrubber, and more controls have labels.
IMPROVED: The login screen can fill your saved password.
IMPROVED: Self-hosted servers on your home network can be reached over plain http again.
FIXED: Favorites and ratings made while offline are no longer lost.
FIXED: Offline Mode now actually stops downloads, including over cellular.
FIXED: Download storage accounts for your Mac's real free space.
FIXED: A server error is no longer saved as a song.
FIXED: Changing albums while the next tracks were loading could crash the app.
FIXED: A track could play twice while the next one was skipped.
FIXED: Playback could start again after you signed out.
FIXED: An unreadable downloads list is no longer erased.
FIXED: Scrobbles that failed to submit now actually retry.
FIXED: A rare crash while syncing playback position across devices.
FIXED: Widget buttons work even if Cadence isn't already running.
FIXED: The widget shows the right position after you skip ahead.
FIXED: The space bar types a space again instead of pausing your music.
FIXED: Command-Left and Command-Right no longer hijack line navigation while typing. Skipping tracks is now Option-Command-Left/Right.
FIXED: The window can be made as large as your display.
FIXED: Signing into a different server shows that server's library, not the last one.
FIXED: Command-F puts the cursor in the search field.
4.0.0 Aug 18
FIXED: bug with image loading in search results.
FIXED: bug where some image grids would not scroll past now playing bar.
3.2.5 Jul 31
FIXED: bug with genres failing to show on home view.
FIXED: additional cache bugs and edge cases.
3.2.3 Jul 30
FIXED: favoriting a track in a playlist updates more reliably.
FIXED: favoriting an album or artist from the albums or artists grid updates more reliably.
more Version 4.2.7 1d ago
Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Supported Features
Voice Control
Dark Interface