playDesk Remote

playDesk Remote puts your playDesk music system in your hand. Browse music, choose what plays, follow the current track, manage the queue, and control the playback computer from your iPhone or iPad while you stay in the listening chair.

playDesk runs on the dedicated computer connected to your speakers, DAC, audio interface, or hi-fi system. The Remote communicates directly with that computer over your home Wi-Fi or LAN. The host keeps ownership of your music files and audio output; your iPhone or iPad acts as a responsive control surface.

YOUR MUSIC, YOUR NETWORK

Your music remains on the playDesk computer, configured library folders, CDs, and connected USB drives. playDesk Remote does not upload your music library to a cloud service. Discovery and control happen over your local network.

BROWSE AND PLAY

- Browse configured Local Library folders and attached USB drives
- Navigate folders, play individual tracks, play complete folders, or shuffle them
- Browse CDs and control disc playback
- Search the playDesk index by artist, album, folder, and track
- Filter and sort search results, revisit recent searches, and expand collections to choose individual tracks
- View the complete playback queue, identify the current and next track, and select another queued track

NOW PLAYING

- See album artwork, title, artist, album, source, duration, and playback progress
- Play, pause, stop, seek, and skip tracks
- Adjust software volume and mute when supported by the selected playDesk output mode
- Review useful format and signal information, including PCM or DSD format, sample rate, output mode, and selected audio path
- Follow preparation and buffering states for DSD files and network-rendered media

CONTROL YOUR PLAYDESK

- Automatically discover nearby playDesk systems with Bonjour
- Connect using a saved system or the LAN address shown by playDesk
- See active playback before connecting and stop it when needed
- Monitor CD, USB, Local Library, DSD, and optional renderer readiness
- Configure supported output, PCM/CD, DSD, renderer, search, storage, and remote settings
- Review output availability, connection health, host status, and actionable diagnostics
- Choose System, Light, or Dark appearance

BUILT FOR A DEDICATED LISTENING SYSTEM

playDesk Remote is designed for systems where a quiet computer stays near the audio equipment and handles playback through the selected output. Supported setups can include built-in audio, Windows audio devices, USB DACs, compatible ASIO interfaces, safe DSD-to-PCM playback, and DSD-over-PCM for outputs explicitly trusted by the user.

Optional UPnP/DLNA Media Renderer support lets compatible control-point apps send music to playDesk. The Remote can then show the metadata, artwork, progress, preparation state, and queue context supplied by the sender and playDesk.

REQUIREMENTS

- A computer running a compatible, current version of playDesk
- The iPhone or iPad and playDesk computer connected to the same local network
- Local Network access enabled for playDesk Remote on iOS
- playDesk running and allowed to communicate on the host computer's private network

playDesk Remote is a controller for playDesk. It does not play your library through the iPhone or iPad and does not replace the playDesk host application.

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