Hi Product Hunt! 👋

I'm Younes, a developer from France. I host my own music on Navidrome, and I wanted an iPhone player with real character, not another spreadsheet of songs. My main inspiration was the XMB, the PS3 menu interface: those are the consoles I grew up with.

So I built Ruban (French for "ribbon", as in tape):

🎧 Sound first: gapless playback, ReplayGain, crossfade, a 10-band EQ, and FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, Opus, AAC, MP3 and DSD. Every track shows the real quality of the file.

📼 A player with character: a two-axis menu over a living wave of light that takes the color of your album art. Rotate your iPhone while a song plays and it turns into a full-screen cassette, reels spinning.

🗄️ Your server, your rules: Navidrome, Gonic, Airsonic and any Subsonic-compatible server, several servers at once, home network or internet. Offline downloads, playlists, favorites and scrobbling synced with your server.

📱 iPhone and iPad, Home Screen widgets, a Control Center control and Siri Shortcuts.

🔒 Free, no account, no ads, no data collected. Your passwords stay in the iOS Keychain.

Ruban doesn't include any music: you bring your own server or files.

It's my first music app and I'd love your feedback: what would make it your daily player? I'll be here all day to answer questions. 🙏

I'm also all ears for feature requests: tell me what you'd like Ruban to do next.