songScoutsongScout is an UPnP control point that radically changes how you discover and control the music you own. It connects albums and artists with instruments, moods, sound qualities, listening cues, and one another—so your local or NAS library becomes something you can explore naturally.
Discover and control your local or NAS music library by artist, instrument, mood, sound, and musical connection.
15 days of full access included. Then $5.99 per month through Apple. Cancel anytime.
songScout works as your UPnP control point: it finds your music, builds a private on-device catalog, adds discovery context, and controls compatible UPnP renderers—without uploading your audio files.
songScout gives your library enough structure for natural search, discovery, cue matching, and playback while keeping the collection itself at home.
A Miles Davis album is not an isolated entry. It connects to musicians, instruments, sessions, and other recordings across generations of jazz. Ordinary library metadata leaves much of that web hidden; songScout reconstructs it and turns every connection into another way to discover.
Core releases · Horns section
Built from recorded relationships. Every path comes from shared work in songScout’s Miles Davis collaboration model. Select an artist, change the release type or instrumental section, and the recordings behind that relationship appear alongside the map.
It connects your artists and albums with instruments, genres, moods, sound qualities, listening contexts, and musical relationships. Explore the complete vocabulary behind those connections.
One connected vocabulary. A genre can lead to an instrument, a mood to a listening cue, and any of them to artists, albums, credits, and recordings already in your library.
Most music-library search stops at filenames, artists, albums, and genres. songScout enriches your collection with instruments, moods, sound qualities, listening cues, and musical relationships, then connects all of them. That gives you four more natural ways to move through your library—and find music that ordinary search leaves buried.
Ordinary library search stops at names and filenames. songScout adds musical context, then lets you ask for what you want to hear.
Describe an instrument, mood, sound, or listening idea. songScout turns it into music already available in your library.
Here is a real example from songScout’s proprietary enrichment models. Your music file remains local while the models turn its album identity into useful musical, discovery, and listening context.
Miles Davis · 1959
Album title, artist, year, and local tracks
The result: the album can surface when you explore modal jazz, trumpet or saxophone recordings, a laid-back acoustic mood, benchmark sound, Miles Davis and his collaborators, or a plain-English listening request—even when those words are absent from the file name.
One connected way to rediscover your collection. songScout also supports guided paths, discovery from music outside your library, and search across every musical connection.
Simple answers about privacy and using songScout as a UPnP control point with your music library, NAS, compatible renderers, playDesk, and DSD playback.
songScout is an iPhone and iPad UPnP control point for discovering music and controlling playback from your own local or NAS library. It connects artists, albums, musicians, instruments, moods, sound qualities, and recording relationships so you can explore beyond filenames and folders.
songScout finds compatible UPnP and DLNA media servers on your home network. Your music may be stored on a NAS, a computer, or another music server that exposes the library through UPnP or DLNA.
No. songScout does not upload your audio files. Your music stays on your NAS, computer, media server, or device while songScout controls playback over your home network.
songScout stores its private library index primarily on your iPhone or iPad. Your NAS addresses, private network addresses, folder paths, playable local URLs, renderer details, queues, history, and local playlists remain on your device or home network.
Only when you enable an optional feature that clearly requires it. AI-assisted enrichment may use bounded public music information such as artist names, album names, track titles, public identifiers, and limited counts. It does not upload your audio files, private NAS paths, or playable local URLs.
Yes. You can remove songScout’s native app data from your device. You can also contact Sharada Audio for help with access, correction, deletion, or other privacy questions.
A UPnP control point is the app you use to browse music, choose what to play, and select a playback device. songScout is the UPnP control point, your media server supplies the file, and a compatible UPnP renderer plays it.
The media server is where your music library is stored and shared. songScout is the UPnP control point that selects the music and controls the session. playDesk is the UPnP renderer and playback engine connected to your DAC.
Yes. As the UPnP control point, songScout can direct supported DSF or DFF music from a compatible UPnP or DLNA library to a DSD-capable renderer. The renderer, its output connection, and the connected DAC must support the selected DSD format and rate.
Yes. songScout is the UPnP control point, and playDesk is the UPnP or OpenHome renderer and playback engine connected to your DAC. songScout lets you browse, discover, queue, and control that playback from your iPhone or iPad.
songScout hardware integration has been tested and verified with Synology, QNAP, and UGREEN NAS systems. Install and enable the NAS vendor’s DLNA or UPnP media-server app, then choose the music folders it should share. songScout discovers that server on your home network. Support verification for additional NAS vendors is in progress.
Ordinary search usually matches names and file tags. songScout can interpret a natural request such as “play spacious percussion” and match it against enriched instrument, mood, sound, discovery, and audiophile listening cues in your library.
No. Enrichment adds a private discovery layer inside songScout. It does not rename your files, rewrite their audio data, or reorganize the folders on your NAS or computer.
Download on theApp StoreBy using songScout, you agree to these Terms and to any policy linked from them. If you do not agree, do not use the app.
These Terms govern your use of the native songScout app and its supporting services.
songScout may use device, installation, and Apple subscription information to provide and restore access. You are responsible for keeping your Apple account and devices secure.
We may treat actions taken from a valid app session or trusted installation identity as actions taken by that installation or account.
New iOS installations may receive 15 days of full access where enabled. After that included period ends, continued access requires an active App Store subscription.
Pricing, renewal terms, cancellation options, and the features included with a subscription are shown in the app and by Apple before purchase. Subscriptions are managed through your Apple account.
songScout provides music discovery routes, recommendations, local-library matching, editorial context, and AI-assisted summaries. Results may be incomplete, incorrect, or change over time.
Music names, releases, external links, local metadata matches, and recommendations are provided for discovery and informational use only.
Do not misuse the service, bypass access or usage controls, attack the app, scrape it at unreasonable volume, or use it to infringe rights.
We may suspend or restrict access when activity appears abusive, fraudulent, harmful, or inconsistent with these Terms.
songScout may link to Apple services, TIDAL, Spotify, YouTube, MusicBrainz, and other third-party services. Those services are governed by their own terms and policies.
We are not responsible for third-party sites, apps, purchases, content, or account actions.
The service may change, pause, or be unavailable. We may update features, access rules, prices, pages, policies, app builds, and provider integrations.
Questions about these Terms can be sent to hello@songscout.app.
App and access data may include an installation identifier, device and app-surface details, session timestamps, app version, trial or subscription state, and limited diagnostics.
Usage data may include journey usage, saved app state, feature activity, and support information you choose to provide. Apple may provide transaction identifiers and subscription status needed to verify access.
Your selected sources, private library index, playback queue, history, playlists, renderer state, and local cue results are primarily stored by the native app on your device.
We use information to operate the app, enforce access rules, restore supported state, maintain discovery and local-library features, verify subscriptions, prevent abuse, troubleshoot issues, and improve songScout.
We do not sell personal information. We do not use advertising cookies.
Local music files, NAS addresses, private IP addresses, playable local URLs, object identifiers, folder paths, private playlist names, renderer identities, and full local catalog rows stay on your device or home network unless a feature explicitly says otherwise.
songScout does not upload your music files.
When you enable AI-assisted enrichment, songScout may send privacy-safe public music metadata such as artist names, album names, track titles, public identifiers, and bounded counts.
Private NAS URLs, folder paths, renderer identifiers, local file organization, and playable local URLs are not sent to AI prompts or the shared discovery cache.
songScout uses Microsoft Azure services for hosting, storage, search, and AI-assisted processing, and Apple services for iOS distribution, subscriptions, and purchase restoration.
When you open an external music, store, or provider link, that service may receive information under its own privacy policy.
Installation, access, quota, subscription, support, and limited app-state records may be stored server-side. Native app storage is used for preferences, continuity, local-library indexes, playback state, and caches.
Retention differs by data type and operational need. Billing, support, access, security, and server-state records may use separate retention periods.
You can delete native app data, manage or cancel subscriptions through Apple, or contact us about account and privacy questions.
To request access, correction, deletion, or privacy help, email hello@songscout.app.
songScout is not intended for children under 13. Do not use the app if you are not old enough to consent to these policies in your location.
