# Familiar Player — Self-hosted music player

> Self-hosted music player (iPhone/iPad app by See-through Lab LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/familiar-player/id6759879772 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [See-through Lab LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1176375570)
- Category: Music
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-04-23
- Data updated: 2026-05-17
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/familiar-player/id6759879772/reviews.md

## What is Familiar Player?

Familiar is a self-hosted music player that understands the sound of your music, not just its metadata. Ask for "something that sounds like rain on a window" and it actually works.

Point Familiar at your own home server (macOS Docker, Linux, Synology, OpenMediaVault — whatever you run). Nothing leaves your network. No cloud accounts, no subscriptions, no tracking.

• AI chat and playlist creation — Powered by the Claude API using your own key. Describe a mood, a setting, a vibe; Familiar pulls from your library.
• Semantic audio search — CLAP embeddings let you match by how music sounds, not just artist or genre.
• Deep feature analysis — BPM, key, energy, brightness, danceability, valence, instrumentalness, and more, extracted on your server.
• Ambient mode — continuous drone plus ghostly snippets from your library, tuned to the current key.
• Community analysis cache — opt in to share anonymized audio fingerprints so others skip hours of analysis, and benefit from theirs.
• Smart playlists — rules-based playlists that update automatically as your library changes.
• Offline playback, lock-screen controls, synced lyrics (LRCLIB), Last.fm scrobbling.
• Works with FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AAC, Ogg, Opus.

Familiar is open-source (MIT) and requires you to run your own backend. Setup guides for Docker, macOS, and common NAS platforms are on GitHub.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-04-23

No release notes.

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