Press play.
That is the
whole idea.
Music from your own server and from Apple Music. Audiobooks and podcasts from Audiobookshelf. One player for all of it.
Everything it plays
One player, whatever the sound happens to be: albums, books, episodes, and the radio stations you saved on your server. No switching apps because the format changed, and no second library because you added a second server.
Music
Your servers and Apple Music on one shelf. An album in two places shows up once, and you say which copy plays. Records that Apple Music splits into four entries over a guest credit get put back together as one album.
Audiobooks
Chapters, a sleep timer, and where you left off, handed back to Audiobookshelf so every device agrees.
Podcasts
Your server fetches the episodes, and Lindale marks what you have heard and plays the rest. No storefront in sight.
One library per kind of listening
Point it at your own music server, sign in to Apple Music, add the server that holds your books and podcasts. One of them, or all of them. A second music server does not become a second library: the albums join the ones you already had, a record that sits on both shows up once, and one search covers the lot. Books and podcasts do the same on their own shelves.
Whatever you have none of stays out of sight. No books anywhere means no Audiobooks section to scroll past, and the same goes for podcasts and for radio, so the app stays the size of your listening. Your choices follow you around over your own iCloud, and there is no account to make and nothing of mine in the middle.
Free
No price, no trial, no “pro” tier hiding behind a button.
Nobody watching
No ads, no analytics, no trackers. Lindale has no account and no backend of its own, so what you listen to never reaches me.
One person
Made in the evenings by someone who wanted this app to exist.
Want a note when it lands?
One email, on release day. Then never again.
The name. / LIN-dayl / is a linden valley, the tree a village once gathered under to sing and play. Said out loud it is also the Elvish word for music. Both readings are fine by me.