Hydrophone Music

Player for your music server

Only for Mac

Free

Mac

Hydrophone is a native macOS player for your own music server (Navidrome, Gonic, LMS, Astiga, or any OpenSubsonic-compatible server). The interaction design iTunes got right rebuilt as a modern, restrained Mac app. Streaming-only, audiophile-grade playback. AUDIOPHILE PLAYBACK • True gapless playback, decoded as it streams FLAC, MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, with automatic server-transcode fallback for anything else • Hardware sample-rate matching: your DAC runs at each track's native rate • ReplayGain volume normalization (track or album) with peak protection • Output-device picker including AirPlay, with USB-DAC unplug recovery YOUR LIBRARY, PROPERLY • Dense, sortable track table with quality badges and lossless-first sorting • Column browser: Genre → Artist → Album, like the classic days • Home shelves, artist pages with biographies, similar artists, Start Radio • Album grid with genre and decade filters; Shuffle Library and Shuffle Albums • Full playlist round-trip editing, favorites everywhere, scrobbling A REAL MAC APP • Up Next queue saved to your server — survives relaunches, resumable from other clients • Menu-bar player, media keys, Control Center integration, an iTunes-style LCD • Keyboard-first, VoiceOver support, Light and Dark, state restoration • Sandboxed, zero third-party dependencies, no tracking of any kind Hydrophone is streaming-only by design: your server holds the music, Hydrophone plays it. Try it instantly with the built-in demo server button.

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    Information

    Seller
    • Huell B.V.
    Size
    • 1.3 MB
    Category
    • Music
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © Thijs Wijnmaalen
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