PMDA vs Music Flex Player

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.

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.