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JPLAY 4+
The new reference hi-fi app.
Marcin Ostapowicz
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
JPLAY is an award winning music playback app for audiophiles. It works instantly with nearly every streamer or network DAC on the market. It combines Qobuz, Tidal and local content in a single interface allowing user to access each library separately.
Main features:
• Beautiful, clean and easy to use app allowing you to play music on nearly all streamers/network DACs - no core needed! (UPnP AV/DLNA)
• Plays from Qobuz, Tidal and files on local libraries
• Dramatically better sound quality thanks to minimizing network traffic
• Radio feature discovers new music for you
• Single library, individual library and folder views
• Extended playlists management
• Advanced search, sort, focus
• Artists bios, album reviews etc
• Highlighted audiophile formats
• My Activity, My history keep your playback stats
• Native iOS controls from locked screen
• Sharing your favorite music on social media
• And much, much more!
Sign up for a JPLAY subscription in the app. New users can enjoy a 14-day free trial period that will be automatically converted into a yearly subscription. Subscription is automatically renewed and charged on a yearly basis. You can cancel it at any time up until the day before renewal and you can at any time turn off the auto renewal.
What’s New
Version 1.0.18
- Tags;
- Bug fixes;
Ratings and Reviews
The best UPnP app there is
This app is a far cry from the other UPnP apps. Even Bubble UPnP seems crude and simple compared to JPLAY’s slick interface and rich feature set. I’m a long-time Roon user but lately prefer the purity of sound that UPnP brings. The only thing that held me back was the app. Now, that is no longer a consideration.
If you like the Roon interface but would rather use UPnP, or if you only stream from Qobuz or Tidal, JPLAY is the answer. This app offers it all, complete with unified views of all libraries, be they local or in the cloud.
The app is super responsive, thanks to local meta data caching on the tablet. So no more waiting for the screen to populate as the app needs to retrieve data from the server as you browse folder levels.
JPLAY offers a large chunk of the features previously only available in Roon such as an instant overview of the number of albums, tracks, artists, composers, and playlists, Recently Played Tracks, Recently Added, History, Associated Artists, Recommendations, Album versions, Focus (filtering), Radio (automatic continued play at queue end based on what was played before), Search by a large range of metadata fields and narrowing down within the search results, Support for and unified view of multiple libraries with easy filtering.
It was mentioned in another review that the app crashes, but over the course of several months of use, this has never happened to me.
That said, UPnP is not always as easy to use or as stable as Roon, especially if you have multiple endpoints and like to swap between them a lot. The small issues I’ve seen such as “library not available” or “player not found” are common to UPnP and also happen with other UPnP apps but can always be fixed by re-searching for devices, or if that fails, by restarting the server/player. These small issues aside, JPLAY is consistently more stable than other UPnP apps. I’ve done duration tests and found that the app will continue playing for days on end with no issues whatsoever, even while the tablet is locked or used for other activities.
So, is the app perfect? No, but neither is Roon, or any other app, for that matter. I’m counting on the maker to address the few remaining inconsistencies in a next update and continue improving the app.
Simply the best UPnP app there is!
This app is a far cry from the other UPnP apps. Even Bubble UPnP seems crude and simple compared to JPLAY’s slick interface and rich feature set. I’m a long-time Roon user but lately prefer the purity of sound that UPnP brings. The only thing that held me back was the app. Now, that is no longer a consideration.
If you like the Roon interface but would rather use UPnP, or if you only stream from Qobuz or Tidal, JPLAY is the answer. This app offers it all, complete with unified views of all libraries, be they local or in the cloud.
The app is super responsive, thanks to local meta data caching on the tablet. So no more waiting for the screen to populate as the app needs to retrieve data from the server as you browse folder levels.
JPLAY offers a large chunk of the features previously only available in Roon such as an instant overview of the number of albums, tracks, artists, composers, and playlists, Recently Played Tracks, Recently Added, History, Associated Artists, Recommendations, Album versions, Focus (filtering), Radio (automatic continued play at queue end based on what was played before), Search by a large range of metadata fields and narrowing down within the search results, Support for and unified view of multiple libraries with easy filtering.
And as a very nice bonus, JPLAY sounds better than alternative UPnP apps.
It was mentioned in another review that the app crashes but over the course of several months of use, this has never happened to me.
That said, UPnP is not always as easy to use or as stable as Roon, especially if you have multiple endpoints and like to swap between them a lot. The small issues I’ve seen such as “library not available” or “player not found” are common to UPnP and also happen with other UPnP apps but can always be fixed by re-searching for devices, or if that fails, by restarting the server/player. These small issues aside, JPLAY is consistently more stable than other UPnP apps. I’ve done duration tests and found that the app will continue playing for days on end with no issues whatsoever, even while the tablet is locked or used for other activities.
So, is the app perfect? No, but neither is Roon, or any other app, for that matter. I’m counting on the maker to address the few remaining inconsistencies in a next update and continue improving the app.
Very nice first impression
I really love your app to control Qobuz in combi with Sonos Amp.
But it still seems to have bugs. Some ALBUMS specialy in 24bit dont seem to playback correct.
Hope you can fix this.
Seems to beat Roon because there no core needed. Like the soundquality in combination with Qobuz. User interface is similair to Roon. Curious about the recommendations and algoritmes.
App Privacy
The developer, Marcin Ostapowicz, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
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Marcin Ostapowicz has identified itself as a trader for this app and confirmed that this product or service complies with European Union law.
- Address
- Rymarska 45 1 53-206 Wroclaw Poland
- Phone Number
- +48 606312189
- contact@jplay.app
- Size
- 50 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © JPLAY. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- JPLAY Premium € 51,99