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QSYNC Media Player (QMP)

A media player on steroids - the formats nobody else bothers with, at quality nobody else ships.

Most players choke on what audiophiles and film lovers actually own - true surround, immersive audio, hi-res lossless, 4K HDR. QMP plays them all, bit-perfect, on a self-contained appliance.

What it does

High-resolution, lossless, bit-perfect audiophile playback (to 192kHz / 24-bit)
Immersive audio: Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, MPEG-H 3D and Dolby Digital Plus with Joint Object Coding
Surround & stereo: Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD MA, DD+, FLAC, ALAC, DSD/DSF and many more
True headless music playback - no TV or display needed (with QSYNC Remote Control)
TIDAL Hi-Fi built in (subscription required)
Video: 4K, HD, SD, HDR, Dolby Vision passthrough (licence pending), HLG - judder-free 24p and all common frame rates
Rich metadata from Discogs - release tags, covers, posters, artist and album images
Tagless identification by audio fingerprint - no more manual tagging (music and concerts)
Movies & TV identified by fingerprint - no NFO files or odd file names
Metadata Pipe: cached on QSYNC servers, un-gated, piped straight to QMP - over 5× faster (measured)
Your privacy first: nothing leaves your QMP unless you opt in - metadata sharing and Social Music are both off by default
True out-of-process SQL library - multi-threaded read/write, fast across many releases
Build your own UI at runtime - move, resize, skin and add widgets
Multi-Room - every audio and video format, not just stereo
Social Music - listen together in sync (within 60 ms) across time zones, with optional chat

The screens

Real screens, from a real collection - not mock-ups. Click any to open it full size.

QSYNC Media Player home screen, a wall of real cover art beside an artist navigator — Home - a wall of real cover art over an 889-artist navigator, with 953 community poll rankings alongside.

The artists library as a full-screen grid of artist photographs — The artists library - every artist with a real photograph, not a placeholder.

Artists view with fanart, genres and a full discography for the selected artist — Artists - 889 of them, each with fanart, genres and a full discography, and their own releases filtered by format.

The albums library grid, every cover badged QUAD, SURROUND, ATMOS or STEREO — The albums library - every cover badged with its real format, so QUAD, SURROUND and ATMOS are visible across the whole collection at once.

Album detail with label, catalogue number and per-track session credits — Album detail - label, catalogue number and pressing, with per-track session credits down to the named player.

Now Playing on a Dolby Atmos title — Now Playing on an Atmos title - the object field is live, not an animation.

Now Playing on a quad title — Now Playing on a genuine quad mix.

The quad library, filtered to four-channel releases — The quad library - the collection filtered to what is actually four-channel.

The movies library grid, posters badged 4K UltraHD or HD — The movies library - resolution badged on every poster, so it reads across the library rather than per film.

Movies view with cast, plot and technical detail — Movies - cast, plot and the technical detail that decides whether it is worth an evening.

TV series view with seasons and episodes — TV series - seasons, episodes and where you left off.

A TV series detail page with seasons, episodes and artwork — A series in detail - seasons, episodes and where you left off, with the artwork the show shipped with.

The concerts library — Concerts - a first-class kind of their own, not filed under music or under video.

Every screen from every app is on the App UI page.

License tiers

Basic

$8/mo

All playback - surround, HDR / Dolby Vision (licence pending), Atmos, DD+ @ 1664 kbps, MPEG-H, metadata cache

Pro

$10/mo

Everything in the tier below, plus:

Design Mode - customise Views & widgets

Pro+

$12/mo

Everything in the tier below, plus:

Multi-Room support
Quad Vectorscope
Atmos Object animation

See all tiers & the annual bundle offers.

Add-ons

Separately-licensed capabilities - add them to any tier.

QSYNC Surround Master (QSM)

$5/mo

Authentic surround, no extra hardware - Involve's acclaimed Surround Master, the native QSYNC version.

Legacy 70s quad stereo encoded CD-4, QS + SQ decoding
Stereo to quad + 5.1 upmixing output at 96/24

Dual DSP tri-band technology and use of psychoacoustics, Surround Master upmixer reproduces a true circular soundscape with warmth and expression and no bias to the left, right, front or rear. Involve Audio's patented technology processes audio in real time, steering sound to its intended position in a 360° surround field.