An audiophile player for the music you own
Zplayer plays the library you keep on your own WebDAV share, on a NAS, a Raspberry Pi or a server at home, from your iPhone, iPad and Mac. No transcoding, no resampling, no account. Plug in a USB DAC and even DSD reaches it untouched.
Most players stop at play and pause. Zplayer tells you what reaches your DAC, how much dynamic range survived the mastering and which pressing you are holding.
Zplayer scans your WebDAV share once, reads the tags straight from the files and keeps an index on your device, so browsing is instant. Albums, artists and search everywhere; labels, credits and smart playlists on iPad and Mac.
Format, length and dynamic range for every track and the whole album, and the story of the record from Wikipedia. Own more than one pressing? The other editions are listed right below, ready to compare.
Producers, engineers and every musician from MusicBrainz, and a card for the artist with photo and history that opens everything of theirs in your library.
Which release is this, exactly? Label, catalog number, country, format and matrix, identified with Discogs and OBI Scanner and saved next to the album on your server.
The badge tells you when the file reaches your DAC untouched: here DSD64, sent natively over DoP to a USB DAC. Radio mode keeps the music going when the queue runs out.
Tap the badge to see the whole path: the file, what the system is asked for and what the DAC receives. If Zplayer had to fall back to PCM, this is where it tells you why.
Synced lyrics from LRCLib that scroll with the music when they exist, plain text when they do not, over the colors of the cover.
Listening time, genres, top artists, albums, labels and tracks, and when you listen by day and by hour. For the last week, month, year or all time.
Save the queue as a playlist and play it again whenever you like. Playlists, favorites, play counts and the queue itself sync through iCloud, so you can pick up on the iPad where the iPhone left off.
On a bigger screen Zplayer becomes a full library browser, with a sidebar for albums, artists, labels, credits, playlists and stats. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac.
The pressing, dynamic range for every track, credits and the artist, all on one screen.
Every producer, engineer and mastering engineer in your library, and the records they worked on.
Analogue Productions, Esoteric, MFSL: your library by label, with the sidebar always at hand.
In exclusive mode Zplayer for Mac takes your DAC for itself: it bypasses the system mixer, switches the DAC to each track's sample rate and sends DSD natively over DoP.
Curious about a mastering? Send any album, or two editions of it, straight from your server to Dr. Doctor for a full analysis.
There is no cloud in between and nothing to sign up for. Zplayer reads your music straight from your own WebDAV server and plays it through your device, or through the DAC you plug into it.
DoP carries DSD inside a PCM stream so the DAC can decode it natively. One changed bit and it turns into noise, so Zplayer only switches it on when the route, the volume and the sample rate are all right.
For people who know the difference between a 1985 CD and the 2011 remaster, and want their player to know it too.
Your music stays on your own WebDAV share. Zplayer reads tags with tiny range requests, keeps an index on your device and streams each track when you press play.
Files play at their native sample rate, with no resampling. A badge confirms when the path to your DAC is really bit-perfect, and on the Mac exclusive mode keeps the system mixer out of the way.
DSF and DFF reach your DAC untouched, wrapped in a PCM carrier, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. When the conditions are not right, Zplayer converts to high-resolution PCM instead, and tells you why.
DR14 for every track and album, measured over the whole file and every channel, the same way as the reference meters. Values still being refined carry a tilde.
The SACD transfer and the CD rip, side by side. Open either one, or send both to Dr. Doctor to see which mastering kept more dynamics. Identify pressings with Discogs and OBI Scanner.
Save the queue as a playlist, build smart playlists from rules, let radio mode keep the music going, and see what you listen to by week, month, year or all time.
Credits from MusicBrainz, background from Wikipedia, synced lyrics from LRCLib and artwork from several sources, cached on your device.
Favorites, play counts, ratings, playlists and the queue follow you between iPhone, iPad and Mac, in your own private iCloud storage. Your server login travels in iCloud Keychain.
No account, no analytics, no ads. Zplayer talks to your own server and to public music databases, and nothing else.
One purchase for iPhone, iPad and Mac. No subscription, no account, no tracking.
No server yet? Open Settings and tap Try Demo Mode to play sample albums built into the app. The support page explains how to connect your own.