Jam-Pod

A player for people who keep their own music collection

Music

Apple

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the anti-feed pitch is great but the line that jumped out to me was "even with a messy library but correct metadata, it should work fine" - that correct metadata part is doing a lot of work. anyone with years of ripped FLACs has some fraction with missing album art, wrong genre tags, or inconsistent artist naming. does Jam-Pod just quietly drop those into an unsorted bucket, or does browsing break down in a more annoying way when the tags aren't clean

Congrats on the launch! Owning your collection instead of renting access is a hill I'll happily die on, so this premise is right up my alley. Takes me back to the old Winamp days.

The joystick + monochrome screen over your own library is exactly the anti-algorithm thing I want on day one — scrolling my collection instead of being fed picks. Practical question with a messy local library: does Jam-Pod read my existing folders and playlists as-is, or do I have to re-import and rebuild playlists inside the app? And for the hi-res FLAC/ALAC files, does it play them bit-perfect or resample to the device output?

love the anti-feed premise here, feels like a real reaction to how bloated Apple Music/Spotify have gotten. question on the lossless side - if I've got a library of FLAC/hi-res files sitting outside the Apple Music library entirely (just files on my NAS or synced via Files app), is importing those into Jam-Pod straightforward, or does it really want everything routed through Apple Music first?

Gianpaolo, this taps a nostalgic nerve for me. That calm, unhurried feel is something I have quietly missed for a long time, and the throwback control put a proper smile on my face.

Really nice to see this kind of simple, old-school interface again. It doesn’t throw every feature at you at once, but it also doesn’t feel stripped down. When I want to listen to music, I usually don’t want to think about where everything is or spend ten minutes searching. I just want to press play and get on with it.

I loved this app! The haptics on the joystick took me back to better times playing video games on a Saturday morning hahaha the graphics are also beautiful and love having ownership of my music as well as properly supporting smaller musicians by directing purchasing music from them and not from a platform that rips off their hard work. Love it!!!

Love the anti-feed approach, the joystick navigation sounds genuinely fun on a phone screen. One thing that would seal it for me is a proper sleep timer with a fade-out option, since most players either cut hard or don't offer one at all.

a player built around owning your music instead of renting it is a quiet rebellion i'm here for. the retro joystick nav is the kind of detail that makes people actually love a music app

The joystick navigation feels surprisingly natural once you get used to it, and I love that everything is on one screen without any distractions. Playing my local FLAC files alongside Apple Music tracks just works.

Loaded up my local FLACs on the joystick interface and honestly the haptic feedback makes skipping tracks feel weirdly satisfying. Love that there's nothing trying to pull me into a feed.

honestly the joystick nav sounds super cool, one thing i'd love is a sleep timer built into the playback screen since i fall asleep to music pretty much every night. would fit the whole retro vibe too

Love the focus on getting back to actual music ownership. One thing I'd love is an option to export listening stats as a simple CSV so I can track what I actually play over time without needing a backend.