Your library is enough.
You already own more great music than you remember. Every mix, queue and suggestion in Lumae starts from what is on your server.
For people who listen
Rediscover the music you already own.
Lumae is a music player for your own music server. It knows how every song in your library sounds, so it can build mixes that flow, queues that never jolt, and a way back to albums you forgot you loved.
Beta on Android and iPhone
Needs your own Navidrome or Jellyfin 12 server and AudioMuse-AI 3.2 or newer with the Lumae Analysis plugin. What you need
Screens show the next build, with made-up music.
Why Lumae
Your library is a landscape to explore, not a catalog to shuffle.
Sequence matters.
Lumae never truly shuffles. Every mix, and every press of Shuffle, is put in an order where each song leads into the next, like a set someone cared about.
Albums are art.
Play one from start to finish, in order, then take a moment to rate it. Lumae is made for listening, not for scrolling.
Yours alone.
There is no account and no Lumae server. Your music stays on your server, and your taste is worked out on your phone.
How it works
Three pieces. All of them yours.
Lumae doesn't stream from a catalog or upload your library anywhere. It works with two servers you run yourself, and does its thinking on your phone.
Your music server
Navidrome or Jellyfin keeps your music, just as it does today. Lumae streams and downloads from it, and keeps ratings, plays and playlists in sync.
AudioMuse-AI
Listens to every track once and describes how it sounds: energy, mood, tempo, key and a 200-number summary of its sound. Lumae Analysis, Lumae's own plugin for AudioMuse-AI, gets that ready for your phone.
Lumae
Syncs that description, then works out your mixes, queues and suggestions on the phone. The music itself streams straight from your server.
There is no Lumae server in the middle, so nothing about your listening passes through one.
What you need
Lumae is for people who already run their own music server. Once AudioMuse-AI has analyzed your library and Lumae Analysis is installed, connecting Lumae takes a few minutes; the first import can take longer.
- Music server
- Navidrome, or Jellyfin 12.0 or newer. Other Subsonic servers, Plex, Emby and Lyrion aren't supported.
- Sound analysis
- AudioMuse-AI 3.2 or newer with the latest Lumae Analysis plugin from its plugin catalog. Older plugin versions work with fewer features; Jellyfin needs 1.6.0 or newer.
- Phone
- Android 7.0 or newer, or an iPhone on iOS 16.4 or newer. Phones only, in portrait, in English for now. On iPhone, servers outside your home network need HTTPS.
- Optional
- An AI service (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or self-hosted like Ollama, Open WebUI or LM Studio); a Last.fm API key for album suggestions; Koito for your listening history.
Anti-shuffle
Shuffle, without the whiplash.
Random shuffle can follow a whisper with a scream. Lumae places every song by how it sounds and walks between close neighbors, so the music moves without lurching.
- Everywhere. Mixes, Vibes and the Shuffle button on albums, artists, playlists and collections all play in anti-shuffle order.
- More than genre. Neighbors are matched on sound, energy, tempo and key.
- Albums stay albums. Press Play on an album and it plays in order, gapless.
Twenty songs, placed by sound
Each dot is a song. Close dots sound alike.
Average step
Biggest jump
Illustration. Color shows energy, from calm (blue) to lively (bronze).
Home
Start with a mix for right now.
Open Lumae and The Pulse is waiting: one mix for this time of day and what you've been into lately. Play it, or skip to another.
- Shift the vibe. Move the next stretch toward Calm, Mellow, Active or High. The song playing keeps going.
- Comfort mixes. Four to eight a day, made from the music you keep coming back to.
- Suggested vibes. Up to eight ideas drawn from the sound of your own library.
- Instant Play. Up to twelve favorites one tap away, on Home and in the car, each with its own play options. In the current beta it's called Quick Launch.
- Quick Vibe. Pick up to three songs and get an endless mix around them.
Now Playing
Every queue is a journey. You can steer it.
Album art comes first, always large. Open the queue to see the sonic path ahead, and change where it goes while it plays.
Similar songsKeep a similar sound.
Go furtherA similar sound you rarely play.
RediscoverYour 4–5★ songs, unheard for a month.
Related albumA whole album from your library.
Or steer the path brighter, darker, calmer or more intense. Every change can be undone.
Discover
Find the next thing in what you already have.
Discover is a set of invitations, not a to-do list. Each tool walks your library a different way; only Albums to discover looks past it, at albums you don't own yet.
Drift
Start from any song and drift twenty steps away from it, wandering further from where you began.
Try a quiet acoustic song, and see where you end up.
Sonic Bridge
Pick two songs. Lumae finds a path of two to seven stops between them.
Try a jazz ballad to a techno track.
Memory Lane
Songs you loved, then stopped playing for three months or more. And your taste through time: play an era.
Rabbit Hole
Start with a song and choose what comes next, pick by pick. Save the trail as a playlist on your server.
Discuss with AI
Describe what you want. The answer is up to three songs from your library, each with a reason.
Needs your own AI service: OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter or self-hosted.
Albums to discover
Once a day, albums you don't own yet, picked from your listening by Last.fm or your AI. Save the ones you want to your Want List.
Off until you turn it on.
Search by Recording
Hear something you think you own? Tap the microphone on Discover and record about twenty seconds. Your AudioMuse-AI server finds the song in your library, and you play on from there.
Needs AudioMuse-AI 3.6.2 or newer with Neural Fingerprint turned on. The clip goes only to your server and is deleted after the search.
Vibe
Build a mix around a feeling.
Describe it in a few words, shape it with sliders, or blend it from songs you love. Save it as a Vibe and it plays endlessly, in anti-shuffle order, from your own library.
Mood Compass
Illustration
Words typed into Mood Compass:
rock workout
Try
Your words become genres, an energy level and mood leanings. Lumae then finds the songs in your library that fit, and puts them in an order that flows.
Mood Compass
Type a few words, like “rock workout” or “deep focus”. Keep it strict or let it wander.
DNA Vibe
Ten sliders, from energy and mood to vocals and atmosphere. Matching songs appear as you move them.
Palette Builder
Mix up to ten tracks, albums and playlists, then set how much each one counts.
Sonic Fingerprint
The shape of your last 90 days of listening. Play one side of your taste, or explore it.
Vibe Alchemy
Blend two Palettes and find the space between them.
Saved Vibes
Push a Vibe while it plays: warmer or cooler, sparser or denser, familiar or new.
Saved Vibes follow you to your other phones. Share a Palette as a code, and it is rebuilt from the other person's library by sound.
Sonic DNA · illustration
Sonic DNA
Fall for a song? Find more of what you love about it.
On Now Playing, tap Sonic DNA to see the song's ten traits. Pick the ones that got you, say its atmosphere and its tempo, and Lumae finds songs that share them.
- Approve or reject each wave of matches until it feels right.
- Play it now, or save it as a Palette for later.
- Every trait comes from the audio, through AudioMuse-AI's analysis, not from tags someone typed.
Deep Listen
Some albums deserve your full attention.
Press Play album and Lumae gets out of the way. The album plays in order, without crossfades or loudness changes, and ends in a moment of silence.
Then it asks how it was: stars, whether you'd return to it, and which vibe it fits. Give it five stars and Lumae offers to follow its sonic neighbors down a Rabbit Hole.
Ratings sync both ways with your music server, so the stars you give elsewhere count too.
Library
Browse normally. Listen intentionally.
Your library, arranged the way you think about it.
Album Shelf
A shelf you curate, shown large and one album at a time. When you want more, Beyond your shelf deals albums you already own, with reasons.
Collections
Mix whole albums and single tracks in your own order. Play one as a Vibe, keep it offline, give it a cover.
Smart playlists
Rules like genre, mood, tempo, energy, key, year or rating, saved as real playlists on your server.
Artists and credits
Discographies by era, your top tracks, and artists who sound alike. Credits connect albums through the people who made them.
Sonic Extend
Grow a playlist or collection with songs from your library that fit its sound, or let your AI choose.
Covers
Give a Vibe, collection or playlist one of its album covers or your own photo, or give a Vibe a color. Covers follow you to your other phones.
Sound
Crossfades that know how each song ends.
SmoothFade times each crossfade to where one song really ends and the next really begins, using Lumae Analysis's measurements of both. Songs that follow each other on an album are never crossfaded; they play gapless.
- Loudness, leveled. Loud songs are turned down to a steady level. Quiet ones are never pushed up.
- Buffer ahead. The next songs are kept whole on your phone, so the music rides out dead spots.
- Quality you choose. Your original files on Wi-Fi, lossless if they are, and a lighter 192 kbps stream on cellular. Or originals everywhere.
- Parametric EQ on Android, with AutoEq import and extra gain for quiet Bluetooth adapters.
SmoothFade · illustration
Everywhere
In the car, on your speakers, off the grid.
Offline
Keep any album, playlist, collection, artist or Palette offline. Smart downloads keeps a rotating set of music you'll want, and a full mirror keeps whole libraries on your phone.
In the car
Android Auto and CarPlay, with Home, Vibes, Library and Downloads. Android Auto takes voice search too.
Speakers
Chromecast on both phones and AirPlay on iPhone. On Android, Sonos and Marantz (HEOS) speakers too.
Stealth mode
Some listens are just for you. Stealth keeps them out of your history, your taste and your scrobbles for three hours, until midnight, or until you turn it off.
Pick up where you left off
Reopen Lumae and pick up your last queue, within two hours or as long as you choose. On Android, pressing play in the car or on your headphones does it too.
Lyrics
Synced or plain lyrics from your music server, right over the album art.
Privacy
No account. No ads. No tracking.
Lumae has no server of its own. Your music, your listening history and your taste stay on your phone and on servers you run.
Sign-ins stay locked
Passwords, tokens and keys you enter go in your phone's secure storage. For Jellyfin, Lumae keeps a token, never your password.
AI only if you add it
AI is off until you connect your own service. It gets titles, artists, genres, moods and some ratings, never your audio or exact listening times. Once on, it also names your mixes; you can turn that off.
Stealth when you want it
Keep a session out of your history, taste and scrobbles. Lumae Radio is always in Stealth.
Get started
Four steps to your first mix.
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Install Lumae Analysis
In AudioMuse-AI, open Plugins and install Lumae Analysis from the catalog. Turn on its collection manager to sync Collections, shelves, Vibes and covers between phones.
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Join the beta
Sign up with the form and I'll send you an invite: Google Play on Android now, TestFlight on iPhone once Apple approves the public beta.
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Connect
Lumae asks for your AudioMuse-AI and music server, and checks both before it changes anything.
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Listen
Your library is ready to browse as it arrives. A short guide shows you around while the analysis syncs.
Questions
Good to know.
Does Lumae work without AudioMuse-AI?
No. Lumae is built on AudioMuse-AI's analysis of your music: without it, there is nothing to tell one song's sound from another. AudioMuse-AI is a self-hosted project that runs next to your music server.
Which music servers work?
Navidrome, and Jellyfin 12.0 or newer with Lumae Analysis 1.6.0 or newer. Other Subsonic servers, Plex, Emby and Lyrion aren't supported. A phone stays with the server type it was set up with: moving between Navidrome and Jellyfin means a fresh install of Lumae.
Does my music or my listening leave my servers?
Music streams from your server to your phone, and your history and taste stay on your phone and your own servers. If you turn on AI or album suggestions, those services get only what their feature needs, never your audio. The privacy policy has every detail.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Keep what you like offline, let Smart downloads fill a budget with music you'll want, or mirror a whole library. Offline mode plays downloads only.
Is there an iPad, desktop or web version?
No, Lumae is made for phones. For the living room there is Lumae Radio, now in beta.
What isn't there yet?
No sleep timer, playback speed control or queue reordering yet, and no EQ on iPhone. CarPlay has no search or Siri. While you cast, SmoothFade, loudness leveling and the EQ pause.
Is Lumae an official AudioMuse-AI app?
No. Lumae is an independent project. Problems with the app belong in Lumae's GitHub issues; confirmed AudioMuse-AI server or plugin-system problems belong with the AudioMuse-AI project.
How do I report a problem or share an idea?
Open an issue on GitHub, or in the app go to Library ≡ → Settings → About & help → Report an issue or get in touch. Mention your phone, your music server, AudioMuse-AI and Lumae Analysis versions, your library's rough size, and what you were doing. Issues are public, so email logs to apps@rendyjansen.com instead.
And tell me what Lumae recommended that felt surprisingly right, and what felt repetitive, slow or confusing.
Hear your library again.
Lumae is in beta on Android and iPhone. Join, listen, and tell me what you find.