Start on desktop, point it at your files, pair your phone. Then listen at home, away, or offline — only the music you own.
Folders, NAS, SMB, DLNA — Nucube works with what you have.
Start on desktop, pair your phone. Same app, same library.
No dedicated server and no proprietary library to feed. Your device stays in control.
Install it on the computer. Point it at a disk, a NAS, or a network share. Nucube scans into an album library, with MusicBrainz matching for metadata and cover art. No conversion. No new catalog to feed.
Nucube does not ask you to set up a dedicated music server or move the collection into a new backend. The files stay where they are. The computer you already use is enough to start.
Build the library on Linux, macOS, or Windows. Then pair iOS or Android — albums, artists, playlists, and playback state sync over automatically. You do not set the collection up a second time.
Desktop is where you point at the files. The phone is not a second catalog. Pair once, and mobile has the same library you built at the desk.
Tailscale is free and takes five minutes. A VPN you may already have, or a public IP, also works — stream or download the same way you do at home. No cloud subscription. No upload queue. The files stay on your network.
Nucube does not host your music. Remote listening uses the network you already run to reach the files that already live at home.
Save albums onto the phone or laptop. Plane, subway, cabin in the woods — they play with the network gone.
You pick the albums. They stay until you take them off.
Play on the phone, tablet, or computer. At home, send the same album to a Hi-Fi system, network player, or speaker that speaks UPnP/DLNA — WiiM, Naim, Denon, and many others. Gapless on both. The files play in the quality you saved them.
If the gear speaks UPnP/DLNA, Nucube can use it. No proprietary bridge. No brand you have to buy next.
Open the app and see the library you built. Search returns only what you own. No editorial playlists, no discover feed, no algorithm pushing music you did not ask for. No tracking, no ads.
Nucube does not take over a server OS, a NAS brand, a file format, or a speaker ecosystem. It reads your files as they are. If you stop using it tomorrow, the library is still exactly where you left it.
If you care about owning, organizing, browsing, and listening to your own files — on a computer and a phone, at home and away — Nucube may be a good fit.
Nucube is probably not for you if you mainly use algorithmic playlists, do not keep your own music files, or want one app for every kind of media.
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