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Dorsal

An album-focused iOS/iPadOS music player for Jellyfin. Your digital record shelf and player.

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Cost / License

  • Pay once
  • Open Source (MIT)

Application type

Platforms

  • iPhone
  • iPad
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  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  AirPlay Support
  3. Apple CarPlay icon  Carplay Integration
  4.  Swift App

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Dorsal information

  • Developed by

    Jared Reich

  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Commercial product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $5.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Spanish
    • Dutch
    • Swedish
    • Norwegian
    • Finnish
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Portuguese

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Audio & Music

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What is Dorsal?

Features

  • 100% native Swift, built for iOS/iPadOS (also works on macOS devices with Apple silicon)
  • Excellent CarPlay, Siri, and AirPlay support
  • Gapless playback
  • Equalizer (10-band)
  • Offline-focused, network-friendly
    • Cache/download only (no streaming)
    • Once a song is listened to, it remains available offline forever
    • Once album art is fetched, it remains available offline forever
    • Fetch/sync data once upon first login, then only manually after that
    • Cache usage visibility (all, by album, and by song)
    • Cache clearing control (all, or by album)
    • Cache quality options (full or transcoded AAC)

Purposeful non-features (for now)

  • No shuffle, repeat, queuing, etc.
  • No playlists, collections, genres, favourites, etc.

Usage

To support development and get full lifetime access to the official release, it is available for purchase (4.99 USD) on the App Store. There will never be in-app purchases or subscriptions to unlock anything.

To get the app for free, you are encouraged to clone and install on your own iOS device. You can also get it through the TestFlight open beta. Both of these are a great way to find and report bugs!

Please do not clone and redistribute on the App Store as a competitor, as this is just not a nice thing to do.