aud vs Music Flex Player

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.

Music Flex is a music player for people who own their music, and want an EASY way to put it on their iPhone. Organize your music files as you like. Your files stay exactly where you put them, in the folders you chose, and they play whether or not you have a signal. Everything lives on your device. Files view shows your organized music in the app. Organizing by folders gives you the flexibility to create your music catalog in any way you want. Of course, there are the usual Artists, Albums and Playlists views as well. Getting music on is the easy part Open Wi-Fi Connect and Music Flex shows you a web address. Open it in a browser on any computer and drag your music straight in — whole folders at a time. From that same web page, you can browse, rename, move, download, and even play your library through the browser over local network. Alternatively, you can add files through the Files app, or with a cable through Finder. Put music into the Music Flex folder and the app automatically recognizes the additions. A real player Play, shuffle and repeat, create unlimited playlists, lock-screen and headphone controls, and background playback are all here. Everything you'd expect from a music player — geared toward the person who wants to control their own music library. Plays MP3, M4A, FLAC, AAC, WAV and AIFF. No tracking. No analytics. No account. Free to try with 25 songs. One optional in-app purchase unlocks your whole library — buy once, no subscription.