ZoneFoundry for Sonos vs aud

ZoneFoundry is a controller for the Sonos speakers you already own. Open it on the same Wi-Fi and it works — no sign-up. ONE SEARCH BOX, EVERY SERVICE Apple Music, Spotify, QQ Music and NetEase Cloud Music — no more switching apps. Results are grouped by service; tap "Artists" to jump to an artist, "Songs" for tracks only. SEE EVERY ROOM AT ONCE What's playing in the living room, bedroom, kitchen and patio — and each room's volume — all on the home screen. Group rooms to play together with one tap, and undo with one tap. JUST SAY IT "Play five Fleetwood Mac songs in the living room." "Turn the kitchen down." "Play three tech news stories." English, Cantonese and Mandarin all work, and you don't need to memorise a command format. You can type instead if you prefer. BROADCAST TO THE WHOLE HOUSE "Dinner's ready" — sent to any room or every room, with English, Mandarin and Cantonese text-to-speech. LOCK SCREEN, HOME SCREEN AND DYNAMIC ISLAND Home Screen widgets come in small, medium and large — see what's playing and pause or skip without opening the app. Lock Screen widgets too. Every room that's playing also gets its own Live Activity: three rooms, three cards, with artwork and progress in the Dynamic Island. ONE TAP FROM CONTROL CENTRE Add ZoneFoundry's controls and you get: voice request, play the news, stop everything, run a scene, 30-minute sleep timer, and stop a broadcast that's playing. No need to open the app. SHORTCUTS AND SIRI "Play music in the living room with ZoneFoundry" — in English, Cantonese or Mandarin. Drop playback, broadcasts and scenes into your own Shortcuts and run them from any automation. INSIDE APPLE HOME (requires the ZoneFoundry Bridge) With the optional ZoneFoundry Bridge installed, each Sonos room can appear in the Home app as a light bulb: on = playing, brightness = volume. Use it in scenes and automations. LET AI CONTROL YOUR SONOS Connect Claude, ChatGPT, OpenClaw, Hermes — or any MCP-capable assistant — and ask it to queue music, broadcast, run a scene or set a reminder. Add the connector in your assistant, then enter the 6-digit code in ZoneFoundry's Settings → AI access — no key, no bridge. CONTROL IT FROM A CHAT Link ZoneFoundry to Telegram, WeChat or QQ and control your speakers from a chat message — even when you're not home. YOUR MORNING BRIEFING, OUT LOUD Pick the topics and ZoneFoundry reads the news out loud in the room you choose, in English, Mandarin or Cantonese. Put it on a schedule and it just happens. MUSIC THAT FOLLOWS YOU Pair a room with a HomeKit motion sensor: walk into the kitchen and the music comes with you; leave and it drops out. NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED Core control only needs your iPhone and speakers on the same Wi-Fi. An account is only for remote control and syncing across devices. Requires at least one Sonos speaker on the same Wi-Fi as your iPhone.

Your music. On your devices. Beautifully. aud-io is a local-first music player for the music you actually own, with the option of adding your Apple Music library alongside it. Two libraries, one beautiful app, never merged and never overwritten. EVERYONE ELSE MAKES YOU CHOOSE Local players cannot touch Apple Music. Apple Music players cannot touch your files. aud-io does both, and keeps a hard line between them, so your collection stays exactly as you built it. MEET THE SHELF Cover Flow, rebuilt. Scroll through your own artwork, from your own files, and tap to play. Browse by artist, album, song, playlist or genre when you know what you want, and use The Shelf when you do not. BRING YOUR LIBRARY IN, YOUR WAY Import from Files, share or AirDrop from anywhere, watch a folder, open a ZIP, or send your library straight from your Mac over local Wi-Fi. Peer to peer, device to device, no cloud in between. aud-io reads your existing metadata and artwork. FLAC, ALAC, M4A, MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, Opus, Ogg Vorbis and CAF. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO LISTEN CAREFULLY The free player handles your whole library, in every format, at up to 256 kbps. Pro removes the ceiling: every file at its native resolution, bit-perfect to your DAC, with automatic source rate matching, true gapless, crossfade, a 10-band EQ and EBU R128 loudness normalisation. EVERYWHERE YOU ACTUALLY LISTEN iPhone and iPad, with a native Mac app available separately. Apple Watch as a remote. CarPlay for your library and playlists on the road. AirPlay to your speakers. Home screen widgets for Now Playing, Recently Added and The Shelf. Use aud-io on iPhone as a remote for the Mac from anywhere in the house. BRING IN A WHOLE COLLECTION Import CDs. Connect a NAS. Point aud-io at the library you already have, wherever it lives, without running server software. DISCOVER MORE IN THE MUSIC YOU ALREADY HAVE Find deep cuts. Surface recently added music. Group by genre. Build mixes from the files on your device, generated on your device. OPTIONAL, AND ONLY IF YOU WANT IT Add your own Google Gemini key and aud-io can curate mixes, suggest radio-style listening and enrich music details. The key lives in your device Keychain. Your audio is never uploaded. Without a key, it is simply off. Apple Music, if you connect it, uses your own subscription through Apple's system permission. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. The free player is a capable local music player. One Pro purchase unlocks advanced listening. There is no recurring fee, and there never will be. Pro on iPhone and iPad is a separate purchase from Pro on Mac. Works fully offline. No aud-io server. No third-party analytics or advertising SDKs. Made in Sydney by DIGITAL x DESIGN, for people who still care about their music library.