Plinth Music vs Discata

Plinth is a local music player for people who actually own their music. Buy it once — no subscription, no account, no cloud required. ALBUM BROWSING Browse your library as albums were meant to be seen. Full artwork, flip through your collection with a swipe. The way music discovery should feel. AI DJ Plinth builds your next queue from your actual listening history. Five providers to choose from: Claude, OpenAI, and Grok with your own API key, or Apple Intelligence and Ollama fully on-device. You pick who's listening. LIBRARY Plinth scans your tags — ID3, FLAC, ALAC — then fills the gaps automatically from multiple music databases. Missing artwork, artist photos, genre? Found and fixed. Duplicate tracks and incomplete albums surface in one place so your library stays clean. PLAYBACK Gapless playback, crossfade, lockscreen controls, and CarPlay support. IMPORT Transfer files from Mac over Wi-Fi — no cable, no drama. DEVICE SYNC Tick albums on your Mac and sync them to your iPhone and iPad over Wi-Fi — no cables, no cloud. FORMATS FLAC · ALAC · WAV · AIFF · MP3 · M4A · AAC Your library. Your hardware. Your rules.

Make your music feel at home. Discata is a music player for the files you own, with the tools to make them sound the way you like. Bring in your collection, put on your headphones, and start with a simple preset or build a sound that's yours. • Your collection - imported offline listening • 10-band EQ, 32-band parametric and graphic with various different tones for bass or clarity/more • 8,849 autoEQ headphone correction profiles • Six virtual 8D rooms for an immersive and Fresh listening experience • Nine customisable sound styles, one tap Try from Balanced, Reference, Bass, Treble, Immersive, Speakers, Vocals, Chill or Orbit • Crossfade, gapless playback and trim silence • More consistent listening levels, loudness normalization with three target levels: -14, -16 or -18 LUFS, Auto level, true-peak limiter • Auto synced Lyrics • Smart Shuffle • Completely customisable UI, choose from Themes, Colours, and Fonts No account is required. Designed for iPhone running iOS 17 or later. Discata plays your own music files. It does not include a streaming music catalog or import protected streaming-service downloads. The free version includes ads. An optional one-time in-app purchase removes ads permanently.