Again Music vs Sonarch

Again Music is a free music player for the songs you already own. There is no feed, no banners, and no algorithm deciding what comes next. Just your music, and a player that finally feels like yours. YOURS, NOT THE ALGORITHM'S No recommendations. No "made for you" that was made for everyone. Your page is built only from what you actually do: the records you played, the artists you saved, and your playlists, albums, and songs. Tap the heart on a song and it stays. That is the whole system. THE CRATE Your recent listens stack up like a crate of records you can flip back through. Pull one out and it plays. It is the fastest way back to whatever you had on last night. MAKE IT YOURS Five title fonts, five app icons, and a true black dark mode. Set it up once and it feels like your own player, not someone else's. EVERY FEATURED ARTIST, ONE TAP Tap the credits on any song, pick a name, and land on that artist's page. Features, collabs, producers who sing, all one tap away. BRING YOUR MUSIC One tap imports your Apple Music library: your playlists and your recently added songs. Everything lives right where you expect it, ready the moment you open the app. WE COLLECT NOTHING Again Music has no ads, no accounts, no analytics, and no tracking. Everything you save lives on your phone. The App Store privacy label says "Data Not Collected" because there is genuinely nothing to collect. FAST, AND OUT OF THE WAY The whole app weighs less than a photo. It opens instantly, remembers exactly where you were, and never gets between you and the next song. ALSO IN THE BOX · A home screen widget that plays, pauses, and skips without opening the app · Full lock screen, AirPlay, and background playback · A queue you control: play next, add to queue, reorder on the fly · Search that learns which artists are yours · Session restore: close the app mid-song, come back tomorrow, it is still there EVERYTHING, FREE The whole app is free. No subscription to the app, no in-app purchases, no locked features. THE FINE PRINT Again Music requires an Apple Music subscription to play songs. If you are not a subscriber, the app offers to start Apple Music for you. It is an independent app and is not affiliated with Apple. Made by one person who wanted their music to feel like theirs again.

Sonarch plays the music you already own. Point it at folders on your Mac, a drive on your network, or a cloud account, and it builds one library out of all of them. Nothing is streamed from us, nothing is counted, and nothing about what you play leaves your device unless you ask it to. MIXES, ENDLESS AND YOUR OWN Your Mac or iPhone listens to 30 seconds of every track and works out what sounds alike, with no service involved. Play a ready mix named after its artists, or start one from any track, and it goes on for as long as you listen. Drift wanders as near or as far as you like, or winds down to your calmest music; Similar holds one mood. When an album ends, Autoplay carries on with music like it. A sound map lays out your artists by how they sound; start a mix from any of them. Narrow a mix to the artists or genres you choose, save it, and come back where you left off. With Sync, what one device analyzes, the others use too. ONE TRACK, HOWEVER MANY COPIES A track you have as FLAC and again as MP3, sitting in two different places, is one row in your library — with every format and every place it lives behind it. EVERY FORMAT, GAPLESS BETWEEN THEM FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC and Ogg Vorbis, with ReplayGain so a library built from many sources plays at one loudness. An album ripped as one file with a CUE sheet shows up as its own tracks. The output can follow each track's sample rate, and crossfade and silence trimming are there when you want them. SOUND THAT FITS YOUR HEADPHONES Import the AutoEQ profile for your headphones and everything you play is corrected, with its own profile for each output. Hi-fi style bass and treble controls are kept per output too, and a peak limiter lets both play louder without clipping. BROWSE VIEWS THAT FOLLOW THEIR RULES Any view can be restricted to the locations you choose, and a browse view takes rules as well, composed in its own filter engine. WHERE YOU LEFT OFF A browse, a playlist, every album and every saved mix each keep their own place, and quitting loses none of them. Bookmarks save any moment inside a track, to come back to later. WHAT YOU PLAYED, AND WHEN History keeps every play with the time it happened, counts a track that came around twice, and remembers the view each one was played from — so it can be played again, or opened where it came from. Search all of it by track, album or artist. Bring in your Last.fm history, and Stats reaches back to years before Sonarch. FOLDERS, NETWORK SHARES AND CLOUDS Bandcamp, Dropbox, OneDrive, pCloud, S3 buckets, a WebDAV share or a Subsonic server, connected straight from your device with your own credentials. Your files never pass through our servers. Take what you want offline for the train. ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Sign in, and your likes, play history, tag corrections and playlists follow you between your devices. Pause on one and carry on from the same second on another. TAGS THAT STAY FIXED Correct a tag once and it survives every rescan — written into the file where that is possible, kept by the library where it is not. ON THE MAC Send audio to another output with a keystroke, mid-track, without a trip into Settings. Schedule a start time and decide what happens when it ends. Drag in a ZIP from Bandcamp and it joins the library, with the shop's own tags stripped on the way past. ON IPHONE CarPlay, the Lock Screen and Control Center, through the system player. Control the Mac from your phone over the local network. ALSO An editable playing queue. Lyrics from your tags or from LRCLIB. Scrobbling to Last.fm and ListenBrainz. Stop after this track, album or artist, or pause after a set time. Genre categories worked out from your tags. Playlists, statistics, and sharing tracks as files. NO TELEMETRY, NO ACCOUNT NEEDED No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier and no third-party SDK of any kind. An account is optional — the player works perfectly without one.