# xTune - Lyrion Remote & Player — Lyrion Music Remote and Player

> LMS remote and player for browsing, streaming, and local music playback. (iPhone/iPad app by 斌 胡.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xtune-lyrion-remote-and-player/id6744552136 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [斌 胡](https://appshunter.io/developer/1808139239)
- Category: Music
- Price: $8.99 with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 6 App Store ratings · 17 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.6 · 136 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2025-06-06
- Data updated: 2026-08-29
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xtune-lyrion-remote-and-player/id6744552136/reviews.md

## What is xTune?

xTune is a remote app for LMS (Lyrion Music Server/Logitech Media Server) with a built-in player. Compatible with all LMS-based systems including Daphile and piCorePlayer.

​Key Features:
- Flexible Browsing:​ Navigate your music by Album, Artist, Genre, Year, Work, or Folder.
​- Streaming Services:​​ Supports Spotify, Qobuz, Tidal, Podcasts, and BBC Sounds.
​- Playback & Discovery:​​ Includes favorites, playlists, LMS internet radio, Local play history, Random Play, online lyrics.
​- Built-in Player*:​​ Plays music directly on your iPhone/iPad, supporting FLAC, ALAC, MP3, OPUS, DSD, with Gapless Playback & USB DAC output.
- VU meter & spectrum display (available on built‑in player only).

​*The built-in player is unlocked via a one-time in-app purchase.

## Key features

- Flexible music browsing
- Streaming service integration
- Built-in player with gapless playback
- Supports various audio formats
- USB DAC output support
- Online lyrics and favorites

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: $8.99.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| xTune Built-in Player | $4.99 | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (10 of 17)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xtune-lyrion-remote-and-player/id6744552136/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Loving it, finally a polished player/controller

*2026-05-29, version 3.5.2*

After a long search for a Roon (and ARC) alternative, I’ve tried many options and xTune + Lyrion might finally be it.

There are alternatives out there, but they all feel half-baked: missing features, rough edges, poor user experience. xTune stands out as the best of the bunch by a wide margin, even if a few things aren’t quite polished yet. At this point, I’m unlikely to renew my Roon subscription.

The main limitations come from Lyrion itself. Some Roon-equivalent features rely on extensions rather than being built-in, but once you adapt to that workflow, it becomes perfectly acceptable.

Excited to see where this app goes.

Pair it with a VPN to access your home library and you’ve got a solid on-the-go solution.

### 5/5 — Excellent!

*2026-04-27, version 3.4.1*

Very well thought out and executed.

### 5/5 — Daphile

*2026-04-13*

Super application pour Daphile

### 5/5 — A great way to get the best out of my music library

*2026-03-10, version 3.1.0*

Love this app - much easier to use and control my player.  The app sourced and displayed interesting information about the works playing and the composer which adds to the pleasure of listening.

### 5/5 — Funktioniert auch auf dem Mac

*2026-03-09*

Sehr übersichtliche Möglichkeit, um auf meine Musiksammlung, die über Lyrion (früher Logitech) Media Server verwaltet wird, zuzugreifen. Besonders gut gefällt mir die »Discovery«-Funktion, die mir immer wieder Alben aus meiner Musiksammlung vorschlägt, die ich zwischendrin aus den Augen verloren habe. Läuft auch prima auf macOS und ist dort als Player eingebunden.

### 5/5 — Excellent, immersive app

*2026-02-24, version 3.0.1*

This is a wonderful app to browse an LMS instance with. Crafted for iPhone and iPad and feature rich. The developer is very attentive and answers queries quickly. Strongly recommended!

### 5/5 — The absolute best!

*2026-01-31*

This excellent app combined with piCoreplayer and a Lyrion server have completely replaced Roon in my main music setup. This app looks better than the Roon remotes and is the only other app I have come across that actually combines local files with streaming services. Thank you for this great product!

### 5/5 — Beautiful UI and advanced feature set

*2026-01-19*

A well-architected app with an intuitive and nice UI. It's lightweight enough for an iPhone 7, offers great performance, and provides a stable, bug-free great user experience.

### 4/5 — 不能按键控制音量

*2025-12-25*

麻烦添加下按键调整音量，不太满意。也不方便。

**Developer response:** 已经在3.0.1版本中提供了这个功能

### 3/5 — 有bug了

*2025-12-13*

升级版本之后 每次只要之前的daphile关了，就没办法进入切换界面转到其他的daphile盒子了

**Developer response:** 感谢反馈！目前版本已经修复了这个问题。

## Frequently asked questions about xTune

### What is xTune?

xTune is a remote control and player application designed for Lyrion Music Server (LMS) systems. It allows you to browse your music library, stream from various services, and play audio directly on your iPhone or iPad.

### What devices does xTune support?

xTune is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices. It works with all LMS-based systems, including popular options like Daphile and piCorePlayer.

### How much does xTune cost?

The base xTune app is free to download. However, the built-in player functionality, which enables direct music playback on your device, requires a one-time in-app purchase of $8.99.

### Does xTune have ads?

No, xTune does not contain advertisements. The application is ad-free, providing an uninterrupted user experience.

### What audio formats does xTune support for playback?

xTune's built-in player supports a wide range of audio formats, including FLAC, ALAC, MP3, OPUS, and DSD. It also features gapless playback for a seamless listening experience.

### Can xTune stream from services like Spotify or Tidal?

Yes, xTune integrates with several popular streaming services, including Spotify, Qobuz, and Tidal. It also supports podcasts and BBC Sounds.

### How often is xTune updated?

The latest version of xTune is 3.2.1, which was last updated on March 10, 2026. This indicates a recent update, suggesting ongoing development and support for the application.

### What is the age rating for xTune?

xTune has an age rating of 17+. This is likely due to the nature of music content and potential user-generated content within streaming services, though the app itself is a music player and controller.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.7.1 — 2026-07-23

# New Features

## Dynamic Island & Lock Screen
- Dynamic Island live activity now supported on iPhone (built-in player only). Displays album art, title, artist, playback progress, and controls when switching to the desktop or other apps
- Lock Screen live activity: shows current playback info and random album recommendations

## Full-Screen VU Meter & Spectrum
- VU meter and spectrum are built-in player exclusive features, presented in landscape mode on iPhone
- iPad users can tap the VU meter or spectrum button at the bottom-left of the full-screen player to switch views
- iPhone users can tap an empty area on the full-screen player to reveal VU meter and spectrum switcher at the top
- When in VU meter or spectrum view, tap an empty area to reveal song info, playback controls, and view switcher
- Customizable default full-screen view (Player / VU Meter / Spectrum / Last Used)
- 5 new VU meter styles: Power, McIntosh, Nagra (round), Retro, and Teac
- Quickly switch between VU meter styles using the left/right arrows on the overlay

## All-New Cassette Tape Interface
- Brand new cassette tape playback theme with meticulously rendered reel rotation, tape winding animation, and mechanical cassette shell details
- Two tape appearances available: metal large-reel and standard cassette
- Tape reels visually reflect playback progress in real time
- VU meter now features a power-off effect — needles gracefully return to zero when playback stops
- Tap the cassette to quickly switch tape styles; tap the VU meter to switch VU meter styles
- Dedicated cassette appearance settings (Settings → Appearance → Now Playing → Theme → Cassette): adjust tape type and VU meter independent/system mode

## iPhone Landscape Experience
- iPhone full-screen player now supports landscape mode with automatic orientation switching
- Album detail, artist, and other pages adapted for landscape layout
- Settings and dialogs fully adapted for landscape; pop-up panels automatically switch to scroll view in landscape
- Experimental landscape feature toggle added (Settings → Advanced → Experimental Features)
- Force landscape lock available in SqueezeDeck mode

## Others
- New retro analog clock screensaver with date and weekday display (SqueezeDeck mode)
- Customizable Deck screensaver clock style (Digital / Analog)

# Improvements
- VU meter needle smoothing algorithm moved to the underlying engine for more fluid, natural motion
- Unified piecewise interpolation for all 5 VU meter scale mappings, eliminating substantial duplicate code
- Spectrum animation rendering engine rebuilt for more stable frame rates and lower power consumption
- Optimized screensaver night mode detection logic
- Cassette interface button spacing and sizing refined for more precise tap targets
- Song title automatically switches to horizontal scroll when marquee effect is turned off, so info is never lost
- iPad full-screen overlay layout optimized with larger, easier-to-tap buttons
- Bottom sheet panel width unified on iPhone for a more consistent visual appearance
- Spectrum and VU meter transition animations improved, eliminating residual flickering

# Bug Fixes
- Fixed UI freezing caused by high-frequency list refresh callbacks on iOS 16 devices
- Fixed orientation being hardcoded on iOS versions below 16, causing incorrect rotation behavior
- Fixed long titles being truncated on the iPad navigation bar back button
- Fixed artist name displaying incorrectly after disabling the marquee effect

### 3.6.1 — 2026-06-20

# New Features

## Cassette Player Interface
- Brand new retro cassette player theme, available in two material styles: black metal and silver metal.
- Currently only supported in iPhone portrait orientation.
- VU meter added, displaying real-time left and right channel levels (only visible when using the built-in player).

- **Boxset View**: Added Boxset display to the album detail page, allowing discs to be grouped and browsed via an expandable GridView.
- **New Home Page Card**: Added a “Recent Updated Albums” card to the home screen, along with corresponding appearance settings.
- **Enhanced Player Settings**: Added a power switch, and quick-jump links for both the built-in player and Lyrion player.

# Improvements
- **NowPlaying Page Redesign**: Unified the modern, vinyl, and classic themes, and adapted the interface for both iPad and iPhone.
- **Deck Mode Album Gesture Optimization**: iPhone supports swiping to the previous/next album; iPad supports swiping to the previous/next two albums.
- **Unified Button Style**: Changed button style from Plain to the default blue button style.
- Optimized animations and scrolling performance on several screens.
- Improved the readability of the progress bar in the Now Playing list.

# Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where password-protected LMS services could not be auto-discovered.
- Fixed a recent regression that prevented browsing of password-protected LMS servers.
- Fixed a compatibility issue with the Radio Paradise plugin.
- Fixed an issue where Smart DJ would play all genres when loaded from the template dialog.
- Fixed an issue where the alarm music source in the player could not be saved.
- Fixed a layout issue on the Now Playing screen for iPhone Mini caused by the smaller screen size.
- Fixed an issue where the iPhone mini-player bar would stick at the bottom of the settings screen.
- Fixed an incorrect “Last Scan Time” displayed on the settings page after a media library scan.
- Fixed an issue where screen brightness would not properly restore after exiting dark screen mode.

### 3.5.2 — 2026-05-15

# New Features
## SqueezeDeck Mode
- A brand-new desktop mode that keeps the screen always on, allowing xTune to work as a standalone player or remote control (external power recommended)
- Automatically displays a clock and recommended albums when no music is playing
- Seamlessly switches to the full-screen Now Playing interface during playback
- Customizable night mode: choose to show only the clock or keep the screen completely black
- Configuration available at Settings -> SqueezeDeck

## Keyboard Shortcuts
- Global playback control is now available via a Bluetooth keyboard.
- Supports play/pause, previous/next track, volume adjustment, and switching players.
- Quickly navigate to the Home page, Now Playing page, Settings page, and trigger search from anywhere.
- Enable keyboard shortcuts and view the current key bindings in Settings -> Shortcuts.
- On iPad, long-press the Command key to view the full list of available shortcuts.

## Others
- Added Traditional Chinese language support.
- Enhanced song list filtering now supports matching by work subtitle, work title, and grouping field.


# Improvements
- Refactored and optimized the animations and layout of the full-screen Now Playing interface on iPad.
- Optimized the logic for resuming the built-in player after a phone call ends; it now reconnects to the server before continuing playback to avoid interruptions.
- Improved icon compatibility for iOS 15, prioritizing icon resources supported by older system versions.
- Optimized the Snackbar notification style to better display non-system icons.
- Optimized the built-in player's DSP processing logic to reduce waiting time when buffer space is low, preventing audio underruns on low-end devices.
- Changed the "Enable Volume Slider" setting in Advanced Settings to be enabled by default.
- No longer requests lyrics when a track is identified as a Radio Now Playing program.
- Optimized MAI plugin API calls by extending the timeout to 15 seconds.
- Improved rendering performance for certain views and animations.

# Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue introduced in the previous version where the built-in player failed to play correctly in bit-perfect mode.
- Fixed an issue where tapping "Play All" on a song list with an active search filter would incorrectly play all unfiltered songs.
- Fixed a long-standing issue where the player power state could not be toggled properly.
- Corrected various translation and language display errors.

### 3.4.1 — 2026-04-23

# New Features
## Built-in Player
- Added support for fade in, fade out, fade in/out, and crossfade effects in the built-in player.
- Optimized the Loudness volume adjustment algorithm to prevent crackling or sudden audio changes during volume adjustments.
- Fixed an issue where switching playback from DSD format to PCM format could cause incorrect DAC sampling rate settings.
- Adopted 24-bit AAC decoding, resolving distortion issues when playing some online radio streams in AAC format.

## Custom Artist Role Sorting
- Introducing customizable artist display and sorting within the Artist Appearance settings.
- Artist information for songs can now be displayed according to custom roles based on the music genre.

## Volume Control
- Added volume adjustment buttons to the mini player and full-screen Now Playing interface (requires manual enabling in the Appearance settings).
- Added a dedicated volume adjustment dialog.

## Batch Delete in Now Playing List
- Added a function to batch delete songs from the Now Playing list (accessible by long-pressing a song item).
- Added a song group action dialog to the Now Playing list for easier management of grouped songs.


# Optimizations and Improvements
- Added a content filtering function to browsing pages such as "My Favorites", Radio, and Streaming Albums/Playlists.
- Optimized the display sorting for "My Favorites"
- Optimized the layout of the iPhone mini player bar to be more compact, allowing for longer song titles to be displayed.
- Optimized the layout and visual style of song information, playback controls, and other elements on the Now Playing interface.
- Reduced the scrolling speed of vertically scrolling song titles on the Now Playing interface.
- Optimized the display and interaction logic for song groups in the Now Playing list.
- Optimized the layout display of the current playlist dialog on the iPhone during loading and when no songs are present.
- Optimized the performance of the global search function, improving search and result loading speed.
- Enhanced compatibility support for the "Qobuz plugin - Sven's Version".


# Bug Fixes
- Fixed various interface layout issues caused by button borders when the "Show Borders" accessibility feature in system settings is enabled.
- Fixed an issue where adding Qobuz songs to a playlist could result in missing cover art and playback failure.
- Fixed an issue where lyrics and other associated information would reload even when the currently playing song had not actually changed.
- Fixed incorrect display of song information for tracks missing artist information in RNP radio.

### 3.3.1 — 2026-04-07

# New Features
## Search & Filter
- Added real-time search filtering to albums, artists, playlists, genres, years, and search results.
- Tap the filter button in list pages to filter content by keywords.
- Pull down in Album, Artist, or Playlist details to reveal the filter bar.

## Players & Groups
- Added full Group Player plugin support: create, configure, manage members, set channels, and delete.
- New menu in Player Management for batch operations like mute/unmute and power on/off.
- Player Management now separates regular players and grouped players.
- Group player cards can be collapsed/expanded with a tap, and the state is remembered.
- Tap to collapse/expand a card, long-press to set it as the current player.
- Revamped player selection dialog: collapse/expand groups and group volume controls.
- Added a quick jump button from the player selection dialog to Player Management.

# Improvements
- Added support for displaying multiple genres on the album detail page.
- Added an option to hide unknown genres on pages like Album Details. This can be toggled in the Appearance Settings.
- Refactored Artist and Album lists using reusable components for better performance.
- Enhanced physical volume button detection with more detailed logs.
- Reduced visual crowding in list pages like Recently Added and Genre Albums.
- Smoothed out text marquee animation to prevent flicker and jitter.
- Optimized performance of Simplified/Traditional Chinese conversion.
- Various minor UI and layout tweaks.

# Bug Fixes
- Fixed player icons sometimes displaying at wrong sizes.
- Fixed playlists failing to load more than 50 songs.
- Fixed search bar becoming unclickable with large text sizes.
- Fixed inability to select tracks in APE/CUE single-file albums with the built-in player.
- Fixed unwanted full UI refresh when toggling "Use System Dynamic Type Size."
- Fixed Audio Route dialog showing incorrect technical info after playback stopped.
- Fixed "Year Tracks" page title mistakenly saying "More Albums."
- Fixed full-screen player incorrectly showing "no song playing" without track info.

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