Familiar Player vs Hounat

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.

No feed. No algorithm deciding what comes next. MusicLab plays the music you already chose — your files, your recordings, the tracks you pulled from video — in a player that feels like it belongs to you. Each morning, pick a mood. The whole app shifts to match: color, gradient, the glow behind every screen. Energetic, Calm, Happy, Focus, Dreamy, Moody. Change your mind by afternoon and everything retints with you. Under the surface is a real engine. A 7-band parametric EQ, bass boost, and reverb — applied live, not as decoration. Shape a track until it sits right, then save it as your own preset. Everything stays on your device. No account, no sync, no one tracking what you play. Just a library that's entirely yours, and a player that meets you wherever your mood is. Features: * Mood of the day — six moods retint the entire app, live * Import from five sources: local files, video (audio extracted automatically), Wi-Fi transfer, a URL, or straight from the mic * Full playback for audio and video — background mode, lock screen, Control Center, earbud remote, queue, shuffle, repeat * A real 7-band parametric EQ (±12 dB) with presets, plus bass boost and reverb * Sleep timer with fade-out and an "end of track" option * Synced .lrc lyrics with tap-to-seek * Listening stats: minutes, day streak, top artists, most played * Playlists with gradient mosaic covers, and a Liked Songs collection * Fast library search, accent-insensitive * Universal — built for iPhone and iPad, not ported