Djent vs PMDA

Djent is a premium, high-fidelity music player built exclusively for the audiophile crowd. It breathes new life into your local audio files. Whether you're listening to ultra-high-resolution FLACs or standard MP3s, Djent gives you absolute control over your offline library without the clutter of modern subscription apps. Key Features • Custom Gapless Engine: Experience seamless, uninterrupted transitions between tracks, exactly how the artist intended. • Native Lossless Support: Full playback for FLAC, ALAC, WAV, alongside standard formats like MP3 and M4A. • Real-Time Signal Path Diagnostics: Absolute transparency. Tap the audio quality badge to see a live visualization of your signal path. Verify your file's bit-depth, ensure the EQ is bypassed, and confirm you are getting verifiable bit-perfect pass-through to your external USB DAC. • Apple CarPlay Integration: Take your lossless library on the road. Safely navigate your albums, custom playlists, and gapless playback queue directly from your car's dashboard. • Advanced Metadata Editor: Edit tags, track numbers, and album art directly on your device. Includes a powerful Batch Edit mode to auto-fetch and organize entire albums at once. • Intelligent Synced Lyrics: Djent automatically extracts embedded metadata tags or local .lrc files. Tap any timestamped lyric line to instantly seek and sync playback to that exact spot. • Auto-Import Library Management: Drop your files and go. Turn on Auto-Import to seamlessly scan, tag, and add new music from your iOS Files app directly into your library. • Smart Discovery: A built-in "Fans Also Like" engine connects your offline library to the outside world, pulling similar artists and 30-second audio previews directly from the web. • Last.fm Scrobbling: Built-in, native Last.fm integration automatically tracks your listening habits with precision. • 10-Band Equalizer: Fine-tune your acoustic environment with precision hardware-level EQ adjustments, or bypass it entirely for pure, direct pass-through. • Offline-First Architecture: No data tracking, no mandatory accounts, and zero dependency on a cellular network. Just your local library running on a lightweight, battery-optimized architecture.

PMDA (pronounced "pimda") is one music lover's take on building the music library of his dreams — and now yours. Point the app at your own self-hosted PMDA server and enjoy your entire collection, beautifully organized, anywhere you go. WHY PMDA Most music apps lock you into a subscription and their catalog, or leave your carefully-built library a mess of mismatched tags and missing covers. PMDA is different: 100% self-hosted, private, and it actually understands your music. WHAT YOU GET • Your whole library, everywhere — browse artists, albums, genres and labels, with rich, clickable artist pages. • Real listening — gapless playback, history, cross-user recommendations, synced lyrics and waveforms. • Lossless, your way — stream bit-perfect FLAC or save data with smart transcoding; download albums for offline, even on a plane. • Clean and yours — your files, your server, your rules. No cloud lock-in, no ads, no tracking, no AI. HOW IT WORKS PMDA mobile is a companion to the PMDA server (a free, self-hosted music library app you run on your own machine or NAS). Enter your server's address, sign in, and your library is in your pocket. Nothing is stored on our servers — the app talks only to the server you point it at. Built for people who are in love with music. Welcome.