Song in the Air
Free add-on · you do not need it
Song in the Air plays from the server you already have — a Synology, MinimServer, Asset UPnP. Transport is for the times you have none: a Raspberry Pi that carries the music, serves it and plays it, on a network it makes itself. All three in one box — and it reads every format your player reads, AIFF included. A train. A plane. A garden.
Transport is an accessory, not a requirement. The app is the product — it talks to any UPnP or DLNA server and always has. If your music already lives on a NAS, you need nothing from this page.
No router, no hotel Wi-Fi, no captive portal asking for your room number. The box opens its own network under a name and password you choose, and your phone joins it like any other. Internet is needed exactly once, while it installs itself. After that, never again.
You bring your own and keep the sound you chose — a Mojo, a DragonFly, a desktop converter. Nothing is resampled, no volume is applied in software, no loudness is matched. What was in the file arrives at your converter. There is a command in the guide that prints what is actually leaving the machine, so you do not have to believe us.
Including AIFF, which is where most small servers quietly fail. On one real collection we counted: a minidlna-based server listed 961 of 14,596 files — essentially only the ones that were not AIFF — and looked perfectly healthy doing it. Covers, albums, years, all present. Transport keeps no index of its own; it reads the player's database, so it cannot know fewer formats than the player does.
Transport solves one situation the app could not solve on its own: being away from home, with no network worth trusting, and wanting the whole collection anyway.
The image is free and stays free. It is built on Raspberry Pi OS; the scripts that make it a music server are ours and are open to read. Not affiliated with Raspberry Pi Ltd.