A different way to stream your music

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Soundwaves makes it easy to access your music archive on iOS devices or on your Mac, but it needs a compatible Subsonic server to connect to.

If you don’t have a server to run Subsonic (or Nextcloud, or other servers supporting the same APIs), or you prefer a simpler solution, you might wish to try Astiga. In their own words:

Astiga is a streaming service for your own music library. You can play your music wherever you are in the world. You store your music in a cloud storage service of your choice (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Backblaze, S3, pCloud and most services that support WebDAV, FTP or SFTP) and Astiga plays it from there. There’s a Web based player, plus an app for Android, and as you know because we implement the Subsonic protocol any Subsonic client should work.

Because you have control over your music, you get to say how it’s organized, what music is in it, etc. We also feel privacy is important.

Soundwaves 2.16

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Soundwaves 2.16 has been released on the App Store and Mac App Store.

This version improves the startup time and fixes a problem that prevented it from working with servers that don’t support token authentication (which is a more secure way of passing credentials to the servers, quite important if you’re not using https), such as the Music app for NextCloud/OwnCloud.

Soundwaves for iOS product page

Soundwaves for macOS product page

Soundwaves 2.13

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Soundwaves 2.13 is now available on the App Store and Mac App Store.

This release replaces Apple’s FLAC decoder, since it started giving some problems on recent iOS versions. And while at it, new decoders for Opus and Ogg Vorbis formats have been implemented as well. If you have tracks in those formats, you can now stream them as-is, instead of having to transcode them on your server. 🙂

Soundwaves for iOS product page

Soundwaves for macOS product page