AERIAL PLAYER 2.4 IS LIVE • 100% LOCAL-FIRST • ZERO TELEMETRY

Your music.
Your player.
Under your command.

The independent, high-performance media player built for local audio purists. Available as a polished Desktop App, tactile Mobile App, and hacker-grade CLI daemon—synchronized seamlessly across your network without third-party cloud lock-in.

Download Aerial Player (Free & Open Source) Inspect Codebase

Windows • macOS • Linux

Android • iOS

CLI Daemon / Headless

Zero-Config LAN AirSync

Unified Cross-Form Architecture

One library. Three native faces.

Whether you prefer a desktop workstation interface, clean mobile controls on the train, or keyboard-driven CLI in tmux, Aerial adapts to your workflow.

Aerial Player — Local Edition (Windows / macOS / Linux)

Bit-Perfect Direct Out

aerial

Library

Discover

Devices

System

Your Library

3,789 songs • 24.21 GB

Offline

Music

1 songs • Double-click to play • Right-click for actions

Title

Artist

Album

Time

Sans Soleil (Album Version)

FLAC • 96kHz / 24-bit

Miike Snow

Miike Snow (Deluxe Edition)

4:27

Don't Treat Me Bad

DSD256 Master

Firehouse

Firehouse (Expanded)

4:12

Sans Soleil (Album Version)

Miike Snow

3:55

4:27

6:31

aerial

YOUR MUSIC. EVERYWHERE.

Music

All your tracks

Folders

Browse & organize

Playlists

Curate & enjoy

Sync

Keep it with you

Discover

New music for you

Settings

Make it yours

Don't Treat Me Bad

Firehouse

Aerial Mobile (Android & iOS)

Pocket agility with desktop fidelity.

Designed from scratch to operate without requiring mobile internet. Read direct from SD storage, cache albums locally over Wi-Fi, and enjoy continuous playback without battery-draining telemetry.

Direct folder browsing & storage isolation
Hi-Res Bluetooth output (LDAC & aptX Adaptive)
Instant lockscreen and status bar playback controls
1-Tap synchronization with your Aerial desktop node

Download APK F-Droid / TestFlight

zsh — aerial-cli daemon — 84.1 MB RSS

v2.4.0 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)

user@workstation:~/music$ aerial status

● AERIAL DAEMON ACTIVE (PID 40912)

Currently Playing: Sans Soleil (Album Version) — Miike Snow

Audio Pipeline: ALSA Direct (Bit-Perfect) • 96kHz / 24-bit FLAC

Buffer Latency: 1.2ms • Zero Underruns

Local Peers Found: 2 (1 Desktop, 1 Aerial Pocket on 192.168.1.140)

[REALTIME SPECTRUM FFT - 48 BANDS] GAIN: +0.0dB

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Click a command to simulate:

Ready. Try clicking one of the commands above or copy the one-line install script.

user@workstation:~/music$

Under The Hood

Built for fidelity, not surveillance.

Every mainstream music app is now an advertising platform with audio attached. Aerial is built strictly as an audiophile-grade playback engine.

C++ & SDL2 Engine

High-efficiency native audio thread bypassing OS sound mixers. Delivers lowest possible latency with uncompressed dynamic headroom.

Core: C++20 • SDL2 Audio • PortAudio

Native Lossless & DSD

Seamless bit-perfect decoding for FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, and DSD (Direct Stream Digital 64/128/256) via DoP or ASIO native.

Up to 32-bit / 768kHz • DSD256

Sub-Millisecond Ingestion

Point Aerial at a directory with 100,000 songs on your NAS or external drive. Embedded SQLite indexing catalogs your entire collection in seconds.

100k tracks indexed in < 4.2s

Parametric EQ & ReplayGain

64-bit floating point 10-band parametric equalizer with custom curves for over 2,000 headphone models (AutoEQ presets built-in).

ReplayGain 2.0 • EBU R128 Loudness

Metadata & Artwork Studio

Batch edit ID3v2.4, Vorbis comments, and FLAC tags. Automatically scrape lossless cover art directly from MusicBrainz without touching audio streams.

Embedded & Folder.jpg artwork support

Private & Sovereign

No mandatory accounts. No tracking cookies. No algorithmic recommendations pushed by major record labels. Just pure sound that you own forever.

Zero Telemetry • MIT Licensed Core

Get Aerial Player

Ready for your collection.

Choose your platform below. Every release is standalone, self-contained, and completely free.

Desktop Builds

Windows, Mac & Linux

Full desktop experience with high-resolution album grid, tag editor, WASAPI / CoreAudio / ALAC direct out.

Windows Installer (x64) .exe macOS Universal (Apple Silicon & Intel) .dmg Linux (AppImage / Flatpak) .bin

Portable ZIP builds available

Mobile Edition

Android & iOS

Touch-tuned 6-action tile grid, zero-latency local folder indexing, and background service audio architecture.

Direct Android APK (ARM64) .apk Get on F-Droid Store repo Join iOS TestFlight Beta iOS 16+

Zero Google Play Services required

Hacker / Minimalist

Terminal Daemon

Control playback from bash, zsh, fish or integrate into your polybar / tmux environment.

One-line curl installer:

curl -fsSL https://aerialplayer.app/install.sh | sh

Homebrew: brew install aerial-cli

Cargo: cargo install aerial-player

Memory footprint < 35MB RAM

The Complete Aerial Suite

Tools engineered for musical minds.

From desktop listening and pocket playback to canvas art creation and video editing.

All products natively interconnect

Software Player

Aerial Player

Desktop, Mobile & CLI audio player. You are here.

aerialplayer.app • Active

Handheld Hardware

Aerial Pocket

Physical lossless player. Dual ESS Sabre DACs, 4.4mm balanced output.

aerialpocket.com

Design Studio

Aerial Create

The Canva alternative tailored for musicians. Vinyl sleeves, posters, and single art.

Graphic Canvas

Motion & Video

Aerial Studio

Video editor designed for music visualization, waveform renders, and lyrics sync.

Video Editor

Your music.
Your player.
Under your command.