A music player that stays yours — bit-perfect on your desk, and in your pocket a city away, without ever handing your library to anyone.
Your files, reaching your DAC exactly as they were recorded — the same bits, in the same order, no silent resampling, no mixer in the way.
DSD streams reach the converter as DSD. A SACD ISO plays as itself, its own DST decoded in-house — not exported, not flattened to PCM first. The signal path is yours to own, and Orpheic owns nothing of it.
What you are hearing is stated plainly — the real rate, the real encoding, whether a track is bit-perfect or was made portable for the road. Honesty is a feature here, not a footnote.
Your whole library on your phone and your television — at home over Wi‑Fi, and from another city over the mobile network — while every file stays on the computer at home.
The desktop stays the source. The phone browses and drives it, and when you listen away from home the audio is streamed — transcoded on the fly when the line is thin, sent untouched when it is not — but the originals never leave the machine they live on.
There is no sign-up, because there is nobody to sign up with. Your phone and your desktop recognise each other by keys exchanged in person, the one moment you hold both devices. After that they simply know each other.
Reaching home from another city usually means trusting a company's servers with your music. Orpheic asks you to trust no one — not even the one small server that makes the introduction.
You run that server yourself. Its only job is to help your phone and your desktop find each other through the modern internet's walls; the two then speak directly, end to end, encrypted against a certificate pinned to the very key you exchanged at home. The introducer sees who is online and when — unavoidable, and why it is your machine and no one else's — but once the two have met, not one byte of your music passes through it.
A man in the middle can offer his own certificate; he cannot make the signature name it. Wrong key, wrong house — the connection simply fails, and nothing plays that should not.
The player runs on Linux today, driving ALSA and your DAC directly. The remote is an Android app for phones and televisions. A Windows build of the player, an iOS remote, and offline downloads are the road ahead.
Orpheic is being built in the open-hearted, unhurried way its music deserves. There is no download button yet — when there is one, it will be here.