0.12: the first open release

From open beta to 0.12

0.12 is out: our first open, stable release. It ships on Linux, macOS, Windows, Android and iOS. iPhone and iPad users can get it on the App Store, worldwide, EU included, and on AltStore PAL (EU, Japan, Brazil).

On Android, 0.12 installs from Zapstore or as an APK from the download page. On Google Play, Nucube is in closed testing: that is where the 0.13 beta reaches Android. Join the Android beta.

Here is the whole package. Nucube finds DLNA servers on your network, as before. 0.12 adds Samba and NFS shares. It scans them into one album-first library, without moving or tagging a single file. It plays that library on this device, or streams it to a Hi-Fi renderer over OpenHome (UPnP) on your network. And the same library follows you from the desktop to your phone or tablet.

How we got here is short. Builds through 0.9 were private. The 0.11 builds were the open public beta, the run-up to 0.12.0. Odd numbers are where we build, even numbers are stable — the old Linux way. In Nucube starts here we wrote down the path and the principles; this post is what the beta cycle fixed.

Your NAS, played straight from the share

The cycle had one main job: make music on Samba and NFS shares play properly, everywhere.

Playing from a share used to work — mostly, until it didn’t. Slow starts, dropouts on a bad Wi-Fi day, the occasional album that refused to behave. In 0.12, share audio plays through the same path as local files, streamed as you listen instead of copied first. Gapless works. It keeps up on slow networks. NFS is a library source next to Samba: connect, pick your export, scan, play. Cue-sheet albums import as proper albums.

Sending share music to an OpenHome renderer uses that same path. Skipping around while the music comes from the NAS no longer trips over playback, and Android keeps that playback going in the background. Share music is not the awkward cousin anymore. Same app, same rules, on desktop and mobile.

What else is in it

• The screens. Playback, Audio, Add library, network discovery, Settings and the album page got a real pass, not a coat of paint.
• Renderer manners. Switching to an OpenHome renderer, or coming back to this device, keeps queue and position. A phone or tablet used only to control playback no longer steals playback.
• Scanning. Cancel a running scan, retry only the failures, copy every error at once.
• Formats. APE and WavPack scan from folders and shares. In 0.12 they play through an OpenHome renderer, not on the device.
• Look and language. Official light and dark themes. Italian is a complete second language.
• Tablets. Nucube runs on Android tablets and on iPad.

None of this turns Nucube into a server. There is no library to migrate into, no daemon to babysit. The files stay on the share. The desktop does the first scan and can then be switched off.

Try it

If your library is on a NAS: install 0.12, point it at the Samba or NFS share, scan once, and play an album gapless on this device. Then sync the library to your phone or tablet and send the same album to an OpenHome renderer on your network.

Get Nucube 0.12 — for desktop, Android, iPhone and iPad.

As of 6 October 2026, the 0.13 beta is out: on Android through Google Play closed testing (join the Android beta), on iPhone and iPad through TestFlight, and on Linux through the Snap Store beta channel. 0.12 stays the stable release on the download page; the next stable release will be 0.14.

Current stable build: 0.12.0 (17 September 2026).