PISONUS OS

A music player for the Raspberry Pi you already have.

Put PISONUS OS on a memory card, connect the Pi to your amplifier or DAC, and play — from its own touchscreen or from your phone.

The player on the 4-inch touchscreen, playing a web radio station

The player on a phone, playing a track from a CD

The player on a phone, playing an album from a media server

01Music

Everything you play, in one queue.

Web radio: A starting list of stations, your own stations from an M3U file or link, and search within them. The song playing shows as it changes.
CDs: Connect a USB drive and play a CD, with its album and track names.
Media servers: Browse and play the music on the DLNA/UPnP servers in your home.
Queue and playlists: One queue and one set of playlists for every source. Shuffle, repeat, save the queue as a playlist.

02Control

From the screen, or from your hand.

Touchscreen: Connect a screen and PISONUS shows its player there when it starts. Turn it off in Settings if you would rather not.
Phone and browser: The same player from any phone or computer at home, at pisonus.local. The screen shows a QR code to open it on your phone for configuration.
Setup from your phone: With no network yet, PISONUS opens its own Wi-Fi. Join it from your phone and choose your home network.

03Sound

Through the DAC you chose.

Your DAC: DAC boards from HiFiBerry, IQaudio, Audiophonics, Allo, JustBoom and AudioInjector, generic I2S boards, and USB DACs.
The output you choose: Pick the DAC to play through; Automatic takes the first one that is not HDMI.

04System

Quiet, and hard to break.

Updates that roll back: An update installs beside the running system and starts once on trial. If it does not come up, the Pi returns to the version before. Updates are signed, and only what changed is downloaded.
No account: PISONUS works without signing up. It counts installs anonymously; more detailed statistics can be switched off.
Raspberry Pi 3, 4 and 5: One 64-bit system for all three.

Community

PISONUS OS also carries community integrations for some streaming services. They are unofficial and unsupported: they are not made with those services, and they can stop working at any time.