Start on desktop, point it at your files, pair your phone or tablet. Then listen at home, away, or offline — only the music you own.
Folders, a NAS, SMB, NFS, or a DLNA server.
Start on desktop. Pair your phone or tablet. Same app, same library.
No Nucube server. No box to buy. The files stay where they are.
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.
No Nucube server. No box to buy. 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 — artists, albums, and tracks sync over from the desktop. That is the library, not the audio files. You do not set the collection up a second time.
Desktop is where you point at the files. Mobile is not a second library. Pair once, and mobile has the same library you built on the desktop.
Tailscale, a VPN you already have, or a public IP can reach the files at home. Stream, or download, the same way you do on the LAN. 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.
Download audio files onto this device so they stay available offline. Plane, subway, cabin in the woods — those files play with the network gone.
You pick the files. They stay until you take them off.
Play on this device, or stream to an OpenHome renderer on your network. Gapless on the device and on OpenHome renderers.
Nucube speaks OpenHome, the UPnP extension that keeps the queue on the OpenHome renderer. Your mobile device can sleep and the album keeps playing. Renderers with plain UPnP AV only are not supported. No brand 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 desktop and mobile, 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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