Roadmap.
Two bands: what is shipping in the current build, and what we are researching with partners. Refreshed every release.
In the current build today - what you can install and use right this minute.
Universal UPnP library
Browse and play from MinimServer, Plex, Asset UPnP, and any generic UPnP/DLNA server on your network. Bit-perfect through to the renderer.
Folder browsing
Walk the server's folder hierarchy exactly as it sits on disk - for libraries curated by folder structure rather than tags, the way audiophiles have organised music for decades.
High-resolution playback
PCM up to 24/768, native DSD up to DSD512. Local software-decode pipeline for DSD plus DoP / native pass-through to capable renderers.
Internet radio
Radio Klassu, Naim Radio, Radio Paradise and friends out of the box. ICY metadata, M3U / PLS parsing, MP3 / AAC / Opus / FLAC / Ogg Vorbis. On OpenHome streamers Serento drives the renderer's own Radio service - the same path the manufacturer's app uses - so a station plays as a continuous broadcast the streamer sustains itself, with the live now-playing track read straight from the renderer's ICY parser, instead of the generic transport that some audiophile streamers stall or loop on.
Renderer control
OpenHome autonomous queue when supported, AVTransport as a fallback. Volume, source switching, on-device output when nothing else is around.
iPad layout
Browse your library and control playback at the same time. A persistent sidebar keeps every section one tap away, the grid shows more albums per row, and the mini-player stays anchored at the bottom so playback never disappears behind a stack of pushed screens.
macOS native app
Same Swift codebase, desktop-optimised. Native NavigationSplitView sidebar, custom Mac sheet layer with backdrop-tap dismiss, persistent mini-player anchored to the window bottom, and a hover-state system across every list, tab and action button. Built so it never feels like an iPad port.
Bookmarks
Save any filtered view of your library - Hi-Res Jazz, FLAC from 2023, a specific genre or album you keep coming back to - and jump straight to it later without re-applying filters every time.
Tags
Group albums into your own ad-hoc collections. Tag once, then browse the tag like any other shelf. Synced across every device on the same Apple ID.
Listen Later
Save albums, tracks and artists you want to come back to. Two lanes - Up Next and Listened - so you always know what's queued and what you've already covered.
Synced lyrics
Timestamped lyrics from Serento's database. Karaoke-style display in Now Playing for tracks with available transcripts.
Album version grouping
Collapse remasters, reissues and format variants of the same album under one cover. Pick any version as the main one from its detail screen and the choice syncs across every device.
Your tags come first
Serento trusts the tags already in your files before reaching out to fill anything in. Beyond the standard title, artist, album and genre, it reads MusicBrainz identifier tags - matching a tagged album, track or artist to the exact release instead of guessing from a search - and the classical Work and Movement tags, so a multi-movement work stays grouped and in order with the right movement names, no online lookup needed. When your library already carries the answer Serento uses it, and only reaches its database for what's genuinely missing.
Bios, reviews and credits
Rich biographical content and canonical catalog metadata from Serento's database, layered on top of your existing library. Artist bios, album reviews, release years, record labels, genres, plus per-track credits like performers, composers and lyricists. Pulled in the background, cached locally, never overwriting tags your library already supplies.
Album identification
Correct an album's details and cover yourself, or let a sync pass do it in bulk. Open Identify Album to pick the right release from Serento's database - title, artist, year, genre, track titles, plus a cover, each one swappable - and the correction layers on top of your read-only server tags without rewriting the files, then syncs across your devices. Or switch on Identify Albums in Sync Data and Serento fills the gaps automatically as it syncs, only where information is missing, matching against Serento's database and pulling front covers.
Smart playlists
Auto-generated playlists our recommendation engine builds from your own listening history - weighted by how often and how recently you play, then balanced across genre, era and codec so each one opens a different way back into your library.
Downloads
Tap Download on any album, track, or playlist and the files copy from your server to the device's local storage. When you play with this iPhone or iPad as the destination, Serento reads the local copy instead of streaming - same bit-perfect pipeline, zero network. Background queue survives app kill, resumes mid-file after disconnects, and stays paused while the source server is offline. Downloads are per-device and excluded from iCloud Backup.
Sync across devices
Playback state - the current track, queue and volume - mirrors between every Serento device on the same network driving the same renderer: start a queue on iPhone, pick it up on the Mac, adjust volume from the iPad, all in lockstep with no master / follower roles. Everything personal to your library syncs too - playlists, My Mixes, favorites, listen-later and play history - the moment you change it, near-instant over the local network, with iCloud carrying it across devices that aren't on the same network.
Classical music
A dedicated classical section that finally fits the repertoire: browse by composer, work, conductor, orchestra, soloist, period or musical form instead of one flat artist list. Open any work to see every recording you own gathered side by side, with movements kept in order and credits split by role. Composer bios and portraits, work histories and catalogue numbers are pulled in the background from Serento's database.
Scheduled & background maintenance
Keep your library fresh without babysitting it. A long sync or metadata enrich now carries on in the background when you leave the app, and resumes where it stopped instead of starting over. You can also schedule the whole thing: pick an hour, say after you've stopped listening for the night, and choose what runs - a library sync, an enrich pass, or both. Serento only begins after your chosen time and only while the phone is charging and on Wi-Fi, so it never fights you for bandwidth or battery mid-listen.
Multi-language support
Serento in your language: the whole interface localised, every screen, setting and empty state, plus artist, album and classical texts fetched in your language with an English fallback.
Talking to partners and prototyping. Direction will firm up after v1.1.
Qobuz · TIDAL · HIGHRESAUDIO
Hi-res streaming alongside your local library. Same browse surface, same renderer picker, same bit-perfect routing. Subject to each provider granting third-party partner access for forwarding playback to network audio renderers, which is the operational model Serento needs. Pursuing actively, no commitment until agreements land.
HQPlayer control
Native control of HQPlayer Desktop / Embedded for DSP and upsampling.
Squeezelite · LMS control
Talk to Logitech Media Server (Lyrion) alongside UPnP. Same browse surface, same renderer picker. Squeezebox-era libraries treated as a first-class source.