Plex · Navidrome · Subsonic
Cue streams your own music library with the polish of Apple Music: instant search, offline downloads, the quality you choose, and plays counted back on your server. Then it sends the same songs to Sonos.
Sign in, pick your music library, and Cue finds the fastest way to your server — local at home, remote when you’re away.
Navidrome, Airsonic, Gonic and any server that speaks the Subsonic API. Add its address and login, and your password stays in the keychain.
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Cue syncs your library once and keeps it on your phone, so Songs opens complete and search filters every track as you type.
Title, artist, album, year, play count, date added or favorites — either direction. Each list remembers what you picked.
Download songs, albums and playlists. On a plane, Cue shows just what’s on your phone and plays it without a hitch.
Play the original file, or have your server convert to MP3 or Opus at a bitrate you choose — smaller on cellular.
Songs you play show up in play counts, Recently Played and Now Playing. Navidrome passes them on to Last.fm or ListenBrainz.
Search your server alongside Apple Music and radio, and get one ranked list that forgives typos.
Queue your server and Apple Music side by side. Cue looks ahead, so there’s barely a pause between them.
Tap Play On and your speakers stream the same songs straight from your server. Opus is sent as MP3, since Sonos can’t play it.
Put albums, playlists and artists on your watch and go for a run without your iPhone. The watch downloads from your server itself, as MP3 or the original file.
Your library and downloads in CarPlay, with Up Next, shuffle and repeat on the car’s screen.
Only if you want to stream away from home. Plex handles this with remote access; for Navidrome or another Subsonic server, use whatever address you reach it at from outside — or download what you need before you leave.
On your iPhone, with Subsonic passwords kept in the keychain. If you use Cue on Apple Watch, your iPhone shares them with the watch so it can download from your server. Cue talks to your server directly — nothing passes through anyone else.
Yes, for Subsonic: your speakers get the format you pick, except Opus, which Sonos can’t play, so they get MP3 instead.
Any that implements the Subsonic API, including Navidrome, Airsonic, Airsonic-Advanced, Gonic and Ampache.
