browse huge libraries more smoothly, and enjoy a redesigned Home, Library, onboarding, and music video experience.
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.
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Primuse 1.7.0 expands media-server support and makes mixed libraries more reliable.
• Improved Jellyfin and Emby authentication, scanning and direct audio playback, plus more reliable Plex token connections.
• Added configurable server base paths and server-side metadata refresh for Jellyfin, Emby and Plex.
• Scraped metadata and artwork can now be written back to supported media servers; Jellyfin can also receive lyrics.
• Added independent music-video playback, including progressive streaming for sources without direct links.
• Improved Chinese title repair and scraper import matching.
• Added four new app-icon themes.
• Fixed SSL/port switching, trusted-device credentials, cloud connections and multiple playback edge cases.
• Reworked the 123 Cloud Drive OAuth callback flow for more reliable authorization.
• Reduced scanning, tag-reading, indexing, Home, and source-list overhead for smoother large libraries.
• Redesigned Home and Library with reorderable sections, Quick Favorites search, and clearer access to playlists, albums, and artists.
• Added a first-install feature tour and a richer update dialog with expandable release notes.
• Improved Apple Music playlist visibility and music videos with a larger player and landscape fullscreen.
• Improved macOS and Apple TV localization, branding, navigation, and remote playback controls.
• Fixed metadata titles, a Spotlight artwork crash, and other stability issues.
Version 1.7.1
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Information
Provider
玉琴 孙
Size
86.2 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
Apple TV Requires tvOS 17.0 or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
Languages
English and 6 more
English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese