Aether Player

Aether Player

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Aether is a personal media player for Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and your own files — built natively for every Apple screen. Connect your server and your whole library appears: movies, shows, music, Continue Watching, Recently Added. Add a second server and both merge into one deduplicated view, with a picker that tells you which copy is the better file. Your media, not theirs. PLAY ANYTHING • Direct play or server-transcoded — Aether follows the best path automatically, per title. • MKV, HEVC, Dolby Vision, DTS: formats other players choke on play through a modern engine, GPU-accelerated for smooth 4K. • Picture in Picture, AirPlay, Dolby Atmos, lock-screen controls. • Switch audio and subtitle tracks mid-playback on every platform. • Offline downloads, including whole seasons — and Smart Downloads that keep the next unwatched episodes ready. EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE • Profiles: separate Continue Watching, watchlist, ratings, Home rails and trackers, with a PIN on the way in and per-profile library visibility. • A child's profile can be held to an age rating. • Pair a profile to your Plex Home profile, or to its own Jellyfin or Emby user, so watched state stays separate on the server too. • Two profiles are included; up to five with Supporter. SUBTITLES, DONE PROPERLY • Aether reads subtitle files itself and times them against the picture, so they sit where you put them — in the black bars or over the video, in your own style, with sync and size adjustable in the player. • Search OpenSubtitles from a title's own page in thirty-one languages, ranked against the exact file you're playing. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • One library across every connected source, filtered by genre, year, rating, country, audio language, server or the libraries you curated on them. • Continue Watching, Up Next and a Discover tab with trending titles and Where to Watch availability in your region. • Person pages, franchise collections, and ratings from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb. • Music as its own tab — artists, albums, playlists, and a player built for it, with the catalog kept on disk so it opens offline. • Live TV from a playlist you already have, with a full guide, categories you make yourself, Xtream Codes accounts and HDHomeRun tuners. Bring-your-own: Aether provides no channels. BEAUTIFUL ON EVERY SCREEN • iPhone and iPad: cinematic hero art, a page that grows out of the poster you tapped. • Apple TV: precision focus design, and your Continue Watching in the top shelf. • Apple Vision Pro: an auditorium around the picture — raked seating, masking walls, house lights down. • Mac: a native app with a menu-bar mode, a series browser, and Apple's own decoder for what it can play. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Aether connects only to the servers you configure. No account of ours, no cloud, no ads, no cross-app tracking. Your ratings, watchlist and resume positions live on your devices and in your own iCloud. Optional anonymous usage statistics can be turned off any time. SOURCES • Plex (multi-server, multi-account) • Jellyfin (multi-server) • Emby (multi-server, Live TV, music) • Silo • SMB / network shares, with Bonjour discovery • WebDAV • Local files Optional, all bring-your-own: connect your own Seerr to request what you don't have, your own Trakt or Simkl account to track what you watch, and your own OpenSubtitles account for subtitle search. Aether requires a Plex, Jellyfin, Emby or Silo media server, an SMB or WebDAV share, or local video files. It is not a streaming service and does not provide any content. Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Silo, Trakt, Simkl and OpenSubtitles are trademarks of their respective owners. Aether is an independent, third-party client and is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by them. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://aetherplayer.com/privacy
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What's New in Aether Player

2026.9.1

September 2, 2026

Aether now carries a date as its version, 2026.9.1 is the release that follows 1.2.5. Under the hood it is the biggest speed release so far. FASTER EVERYWHERE • Play starts noticeably sooner. PrismCore hands the player its first picture after about two seconds of the file instead of six, direct-play files and downloads show a frame as soon as bytes arrive, and the work that used to queue up behind Play — the probe, the server, the screen’s HDR switch — now runs at the same time. • Smoother playback. Seeking no longer rebuilds the audio path, the stall guard acts on evidence instead of a timer, and the seek bar’s buffered band is back. • A title’s page loads in one round: Aether asks your server and TMDb for everything at once, never twice. • A big library scrolls the same at the bottom as at the top, and its sorted views read straight off an index. Filters, Spotlight, genre and year lists no longer read your whole catalogue. • Library scans skip titles that have not changed. Pull to refresh asks what is new instead of re-reading everything. • Live TV opens right away on huge playlists: the guide only builds the rows you can see, refreshes only when the provider’s guide changed, and reads its timestamps twenty times cheaper. NEW • A new optical-glass icon on every screen — with real depth on Apple TV and Vision Pro. • A title’s page plays its theme music after the preview, the way the Apple TV shelf does. Turn it off in Settings ▸ Playback ▸ Previews. • The page names the copy that will play — server, resolution, codec, bitrate — and Choose Version lists every file on every server with its size and audio. Audio and Subtitles are round buttons under Play. • Watchlist gets the Library’s header and its Filter & Sort: Movies / TV Shows, genres from what you saved, Unwatched, and sort by Added or Title. See All filters and sorts too — now on the Mac as well. • Every streaming rail — “New on Netflix”, “Top on Disney+” — is its own row in Settings ▸ Home Rails, movable and hideable on its own. • A 3D copy says so on the title’s page, not only inside the version picker. • Title logos follow the app’s language. Servers show a grey dot when they cannot be reached right now, and Services & Sync says plainly when your devices last synced. • Settings is a real system list on iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro. What’s New is a list, grouped by month, with dates. • Films whose server never names the container now play — Aether asks the server what to send instead of guessing. FIXED • Posters no longer vanish while you scroll; the Quality filter — 4K, Dolby Vision, Atmos — filters again on large libraries. • Apple TV: Library controls change the grid again, and Discover keeps up with the remote. • iPhone: the player keeps its size through a rotation, Live TV rotates to landscape with Allow Portrait Playback, and closing the player no longer crashes on iOS 27. • Your whole Plex watchlist arrives, not just the first page. A watched episode stays out of Continue Watching across servers. Reopening a show refreshes its seasons. Titles TMDb cannot place keep their trailers and previews. • Live TV: channel column back to a column, guide rows land without stutter, channels pair with their programmes regardless of id case, no empty rows after a refresh. Music libraries have their own switch. Thanks to everyone on the Aether Discord who sent logs and files — most of this list started as your reports.

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