About Rigelian
Enjoy Your Music Library with Rigelian on iPhone and iPad Want to experience your music library on an OpenHome, MPD, or Kodi-based player with a sleek and modern controller on your iPhone or iPad? Rigelian is the perfect...
Enjoy Your Music Library with Rigelian on iPhone and iPad Want to experience your music library on an OpenHome, MPD, or Kodi-based player with a sleek and modern controller on your iPhone or iPad? Rigelian is the perfect choice. Rigelian is fully optimized for the latest iOS updates, allowing you to effortlessly navigate your music library and start listening to your favorite tracks in seconds. Key Features of Rigelian: . Easy Browsing: Explore your collection by Artist, Album, Genre, Folder, Composer, and Performer (MPD only). . Qobuz Integration for BubbleUPnP and upmpdcli players: Access and play the entire Qobuz library (BubbleUPnP and upmpdcli only; requires a separate Qobuz subscription). . Vast Radio Station Selection: Browse and play thousands of radio stations via radio-browser.info (MPD only). . Playlist Management: Create, edit, and save playlists (MPD only). . Cue File Support: Play cue files seamlessly (MPD only). . Quick Access to New Music: Instantly access your most recently added albums. . Random Play: Play a random album or random songs with ease. . Powerful Search: Quickly find any track, album, or artist with an intuitive search function. . Flexible Music Queueing: . Replace your current play queue . Add tracks to play next in the queue . Add and immediately start playing the next track in the queue . Append tracks to the end of the queue . Intuitive Play Queue Editing: Easily move and remove tracks from the play queue. . Cross-Browsing: Navigate directly from the play queue to the corresponding artist or album. . Track Quality Indicator: See the quality of the currently playing track at a glance. . Automatic Player Detection: Rigelian automatically finds and configures players on your network, including Kodi, Bryston, Volumio, Rune, moOde, and standard MPD. . Seamless Player Switching: Effortlessly switch between multiple players. . Optimized Cover Art Retrieval: Enjoy high-quality album art. . Today Widget: Quickly access your music with the Today widget. . Dark Mode: Enjoy a visually pleasing interface, day or night. . Multitasking Support on iPad: Run Rigelian side-by-side with another app. . Support for All Device Sizes: Fully compatible with iPhone SE, iPhone 8, iPhone 8+, iPhone X, iPhone Xs Max, iPad, and iPad Pro. Subscription Information: Some features in Rigelian require a subscription, which helps support ongoing development and future enhancements. Choose between monthly and annual subscriptions, both of which include a 2-week free trial. If Rigelian isn't for you, simply cancel within the trial period without any charge. Additional Subscription Details: . Payment will be charged to your iTunes account after the 2-week trial ends. . Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. . Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period at the same price as the original subscription. . Manage your subscriptions and disable auto-renewal in your App Store Account Settings. . Read the terms of service and privacy policy for more information. Terms of Service https://www.rigelian.net/terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy https://www.rigelian.net/privacy/
Version History This version fixes an issue where on some OpenHome players music from Qobuz would not play correctly. 3.7.5 12/28/2025 This version brings layout improvements for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. 3.7.4 10/20/2025 • Support for Liquid Glass in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. • Improvements to cover art retrieval and overall stability on devices with older mpd versions, like Chord Poly. • Improvements for browsing radio stations. • Added library details (number of artists, albums and tracks) in the player view. 3.7.3 09/17/2025 This is a minor update: • A brand-new song info view, accessible via a context menu, to show full details of that song. • A fix for broken search on older mpd versions, primarily impacting Chord Poly users. 3.7.2 07/29/2025 Calling all classical music fans! You can now browse and search by conductor—making it easier than ever to follow your favorite maestros. Jazz lovers, rejoice! You can now use the performer tag to list individual musicians—like Miles Davis: trumpet; John Coltrane: alt-saxophone; Art Blakey: drums—and Rigelian will intelligently split them up for better browsing and searching. We’ve turbocharged the caching for UPnP media servers—it’s now over 50% faster and more reliable. Less waiting, more listening. And for those who like to keep things tidy: you can now choose to clear just the remainder of the play queue—or wipe it all clean. Your call! 3.7.1 06/10/2025 New in this version: • A setting to have the 'back' button to the beginning of the current track, instead of to the previous track. • A setting to hide the play queue in the now playing screen on iPad and macOS. • A setting to choose whether to disable or hide the volume controller when volume control is not available. • Do a full rescan of the library of a player, not just newly added tracks. • Manually add a radio station via its URL. • Improve display of radio station data. • Improve the display of cover art on the now playing screen. • Support for dark and tinted icons on the Home Screen. • Fix for an issue for Chord Poly users where pro features are not available when connecting to the player in Hotspot mode. • Fix for an issue where radiostations were often not loaded when browsing. • Fix the 'Add Next and Play' option for OpenHome players. • Fix a crash when scrolling in Playlist and Album views on iPad. • Fix an issue for OpenHome players where sometimes playlists from Qobuz are not loaded. 3.7.0 01/07/2025 This version includes: • New Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. • Alert user when network is not available. • Bugfix for missing tracks on OpenHome players. • Better detection whether a user has an active Pro subscription. 3.6.0 09/23/2024 New in this version: • A new settings screen is added that puts relevant settings in a single place (requires at least iOS 15). • Cover art settings are now maintained per player, useful for users that have both OpenHome and mpd players. • Dark mode / light mode can be selected independent of the device setting. • A setting is added to prevent the device from going to sleep when Rigelian is active. • Improved discovery of Chord Poly and Hugo players. • Solved an issue where adding a single track resulted in the addition of a complete album or playlist. This is the last version of Rigelian that supports iOS 14. For users still on iOS 14, all functionality will be available without requiring a subscription from October 1st 2024 onwards. 3.5.6 08/22/2024 Bugfixes and stability improvements. 3.5.5 06/23/2024 Bugfixes and stability improvements. 3.5.4 05/07/2024 Stability improvements for the player connection. 3.5.3 04/28/2024 The display of bitrate, samplerate and encoding is improved. specifically for DSD. 3.5.1 03/14/2024 Rigelian on iPhone: check. On iPad: check. On macOS: check. And now by popular demand, also on AppleWatch. Check what's playing, play/pause, skip, change the volume or play something from your favorites, recently added and recently played items, all conveniently from your wrist. And all of this is just one click away: by using the Rigelian complication, you can jump right into the app from the watch face. 3.5 02/18/2024 This version includes minor improvements: • layout fixes for some screens • bring back albums sort options on the artist view • add an option for OpenHome player to poll for status updates 3.4.1 12/17/2023 • New and improved album and playlist views. • Additional cross-browsing functions between local library and Qobuz. • When browsing from artist to compilation album, show only tracks from that artist. • Bring back play / shuffle artist buttons. • Improve layout of artist biographies. • For Qobuz subscribers, add a tip of the week. • Fix an issue for OpenHome players in combination with MinimServer. 3.4 11/06/2023 New in this version: • When you use Rigelian on multiple devices, recently played and favorite items get synchronized via iCloud. • When you use Qobuz, the artist view will show related playlists. • Player discovery for OpenHome players is improved. • A crash on the artist view is fixed. 3.3 09/03/2023 Version 3.2.1 contains a bug fix for binary cover art retrieval from mpd players. Further improvements in 3.2: Discover more music through the artist view, which now shows albums from your local library, similar artists, and a list of albums available on Qobuz (this requires that you have an OpenHome based player and a Qobuz subscription). Also included are these improvements and bug fixes: • An issue where the playqueue was not displayed correctly on OpenHome players is fixed. • Display issues on the playlist view are solved. • A crash on the playlist view is fixed. • The styling of various views is improved. 3.2.1 08/26/2023 Discover more music through the artist view, which now shows albums from your local library, similar artists, and a list of albums available on Qobuz (this requires that you have an OpenHome based player and a Qobuz subscription). Also included are these improvements and bug fixes: • An issue where the playqueue was not displayed correctly on OpenHome players is fixed. • Display issues on the playlist view are solved. • A crash on the playlist view is fixed. • The styling of various views is improved. 3.2.0 08/25/2023 New in this version: • Support for Qobuz playlists. • Albums show a CD / HD indication so you can pick the best quality. 3.1.0 08/04/2023 Fix a problem where some users are experiencing a crash after upgrading to 3.0.0. 3.0.1 05/11/2023 You can now control players that use BubbleUPnP or upmpdcli. This also means that if you have a Qobuz subscription, you can now use that via Rigelian on those players. Next to this, the cover art loading and caching has been greatly improved, resulting in much smoother operation. 3.0.0 05/01/2023 This version contains some minor bug fixes. Also it's the final version to support iOS 13, the upcoming version 3.0 will require iOS 14 or higher. For users who remain on iOS 13, after July 1st 2023 all functionality will be available without requiring a subscription. 2.8.3 04/02/2023 This version contains fixes for the following bugs: • Rigelian could crash when the app was moved to the background. • On iOS 16 it wasn't possible to remove tracks from the play queue. 2.8.2 12/28/2022 Improvements include: • Fix image retrieval for artists on compilation albums. • Added volume adjustment option to compensate for non-linear volume behavior of a player. • Fix problem where a force restart is needed to connect to a player. 2.8.1 11/28/2022 • Provide a selection of small, medium or large covers in album views. • Show the full path when browsing folders. • Fix issues with similar artists on Kodi players. • Fix performance issues with the theme color picker. • For UPnP sources, use disc number when sorting tracks on a multi-disc album. • Minor fixes and improvements. 2.8.0 08/27/2022
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Rigelian since it was posted on our website on 2023-09-05 23:06:38.
The latest version is 3.7.5 and it was updated on 2026-06-24 13:22:42. See below the changes in each version.
Rigelian version 3.7.5
Updated At: 2026-06-03
Changes: Version History This version fixes an issue where on some OpenHome players music from Qobuz would not play correctly. 3.7.5 12/28/2025 This version brings layout improvements for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. 3.7.4 10/20/2025 • Support for Liquid Glass in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.
• Improvements to cover art retrieval and overall stability on devices with older mpd versions, like Chord Poly.
• Improvements for browsing radio stations.
• Added library details (number of artists, albums and tracks) in the player view. 3.7.3 09/17/2025 This is a minor update:
• A brand-new song info view, accessible via a context menu, to show full details of that song.
• A fix for broken search on older mpd versions, primarily impacting Chord Poly users. 3.7.2 07/29/2025 Calling all classical music fans! You can now browse and search by conductor—making it easier than ever to follow your favorite maestros.
Jazz lovers, rejoice! You can now use the performer tag to list individual musicians—like Miles Davis: trumpet; John Coltrane: alt-saxophone; Art Blakey: drums—and Rigelian will intelligently split them up for better browsing and searching.
We’ve turbocharged the caching for UPnP media servers—it’s now over 50% faster and more reliable. Less waiting, more listening.
And for those who like to keep things tidy: you can now choose to clear just the remainder of the play queue—or wipe it all clean. Your call! 3.7.1 06/10/2025 New in this version:
• A setting to have the 'back' button to the beginning of the current track, instead of to the previous track.
• A setting to hide the play queue in the now playing screen on iPad and macOS.
• A setting to choose whether to disable or hide the volume controller when volume control is not available.
• Do a full rescan of the library of a player, not just newly added tracks.
• Manually add a radio station via its URL.
• Improve display of radio station data.
• Improve the display of cover art on the now playing screen.
• Support for dark and tinted icons on the Home Screen.
• Fix for an issue for Chord Poly users where pro features are not available when connecting to the player in Hotspot mode.
• Fix for an issue where radiostations were often not loaded when browsing.
• Fix the 'Add Next and Play' option for OpenHome players.
• Fix a crash when scrolling in Playlist and Album views on iPad.
• Fix an issue for OpenHome players where sometimes playlists from Qobuz are not loaded. 3.7.0 01/07/2025 This version includes:
• New Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets.
• Alert user when network is not available.
• Bugfix for missing tracks on OpenHome players.
• Better detection whether a user has an active Pro subscription. 3.6.0 09/23/2024 New in this version:
• A new settings screen is added that puts relevant settings in a single place (requires at least iOS 15).
• Cover art settings are now maintained per player, useful for users that have both OpenHome and mpd players.
• Dark mode / light mode can be selected independent of the device setting.
• A setting is added to prevent the device from going to sleep when Rigelian is active.
• Improved discovery of Chord Poly and Hugo players.
• Solved an issue where adding a single track resulted in the addition of a complete album or playlist.
This is the last version of Rigelian that supports iOS 14. For users still on iOS 14, all functionality will be available without requiring a subscription from October 1st 2024 onwards. 3.5.6 08/22/2024 Bugfixes and stability improvements. 3.5.5 06/23/2024 Bugfixes and stability improvements. 3.5.4 05/07/2024 Stability improvements for the player connection. 3.5.3 04/28/2024 The display of bitrate, samplerate and encoding is improved. specifically for DSD. 3.5.1 03/14/2024 Rigelian on iPhone: check. On iPad: check. On macOS: check.
And now by popular demand, also on AppleWatch. Check what's playing, play/pause, skip, change the volume or play something from your favorites, recently added and recently played items, all conveniently from your wrist. And all of this is just one click away: by using the Rigelian complication, you can jump right into the app from the watch face. 3.5 02/18/2024 This version includes minor improvements:
• layout fixes for some screens
• bring back albums sort options on the artist view
• add an option for OpenHome player to poll for status updates 3.4.1 12/17/2023 • New and improved album and playlist views.
• Additional cross-browsing functions between local library and Qobuz.
• When browsing from artist to compilation album, show only tracks from that artist.
• Bring back play / shuffle artist buttons.
• Improve layout of artist biographies.
• For Qobuz subscribers, add a tip of the week.
• Fix an issue for OpenHome players in combination with MinimServer. 3.4 11/06/2023 New in this version:
• When you use Rigelian on multiple devices, recently played and favorite items get synchronized via iCloud.
• When you use Qobuz, the artist view will show related playlists.
• Player discovery for OpenHome players is improved.
• A crash on the artist view is fixed. 3.3 09/03/2023 Version 3.2.1 contains a bug fix for binary cover art retrieval from mpd players. Further improvements in 3.2:
Discover more music through the artist view, which now shows albums from your local library, similar artists, and a list of albums available on Qobuz (this requires that you have an OpenHome based player and a Qobuz subscription).
Also included are these improvements and bug fixes:
• An issue where the playqueue was not displayed correctly on OpenHome players is fixed.
• Display issues on the playlist view are solved.
• A crash on the playlist view is fixed.
• The styling of various views is improved. 3.2.1 08/26/2023 Discover more music through the artist view, which now shows albums from your local library, similar artists, and a list of albums available on Qobuz (this requires that you have an OpenHome based player and a Qobuz subscription).
Also included are these improvements and bug fixes:
• An issue where the playqueue was not displayed correctly on OpenHome players is fixed.
• Display issues on the playlist view are solved.
• A crash on the playlist view is fixed.
• The styling of various views is improved. 3.2.0 08/25/2023 New in this version:
• Support for Qobuz playlists.
• Albums show a CD / HD indication so you can pick the best quality. 3.1.0 08/04/2023 Fix a problem where some users are experiencing a crash after upgrading to 3.0.0. 3.0.1 05/11/2023 You can now control players that use BubbleUPnP or upmpdcli. This also means that if you have a Qobuz subscription, you can now use that via Rigelian on those players.
Next to this, the cover art loading and caching has been greatly improved, resulting in much smoother operation. 3.0.0 05/01/2023 This version contains some minor bug fixes. Also it's the final version to support iOS 13, the upcoming version 3.0 will require iOS 14 or higher.
For users who remain on iOS 13, after July 1st 2023 all functionality will be available without requiring a subscription. 2.8.3 04/02/2023 This version contains fixes for the following bugs:
• Rigelian could crash when the app was moved to the background.
• On iOS 16 it wasn't possible to remove tracks from the play queue. 2.8.2 12/28/2022 Improvements include:
• Fix image retrieval for artists on compilation albums.
• Added volume adjustment option to compensate for non-linear volume behavior of a player.
• Fix problem where a force restart is needed to connect to a player. 2.8.1 11/28/2022 • Provide a selection of small, medium or large covers in album views.
• Show the full path when browsing folders.
• Fix issues with similar artists on Kodi players.
• Fix performance issues with the theme color picker.
• For UPnP sources, use disc number when sorting tracks on a multi-disc album.
• Minor fixes and improvements. 2.8.0 08/27/2022
Rigelian version 3.7.5
Updated At: 2025-12-28
Changes: This version fixes an issue where on some OpenHome players music from Qobuz would not play correctly.
Rigelian version 3.7.3
Updated At: 2025-09-17
Changes: Sep 17, 2025
Version 3.7.3
• Support for Liquid Glass in macOS 26.
• Improvements to cover art retrieval and overall stability on devices with older mpd versions, like Chord Poly.
• Improvements for browsing radio stations.
• Added library details (number of artists, albums and tracks) in the player view.
Rigelian version 3.7.2
Updated At: 2025-07-29
Changes: Jul 29, 2025
Version 3.7.2
This is a minor update:
• A brand-new song info view, accessible via a context menu, to show full details of that song.
• A fix for broken search on older mpd versions, primarily impacting Chord Poly users.
Rigelian version 3.7.0
Updated At: 2025-01-07
Changes: Jan 7, 2025
Version 3.7.0
New in this version:
• A setting to have the 'back' button to the beginning of the current track, instead of to the previous track.
• A setting to hide the play queue in the now playing screen on macOS.
• A setting to choose whether to disable or hide the volume controller when volume control is not available.
• Do a full rescan of the library of a player, not just newly added tracks.
• Manually add a radio station via its URL.
• Improve display of radio station data.
• Improve the display of cover art on the now playing screen.
• Support for dark and tinted icons on the Home Screen.
• Fix for an issue for Chord Poly users where pro features are not available when connecting to the player in Hotspot mode.
• Fix for an issue where radiostations were often not loaded when browsing.
• Fix the 'Add Next and Play' option for OpenHome players.
• Fix a crash when scrolling in Playlist and Album views.
• Fix an issue for OpenHome players where sometimes playlists from Qobuz are not loaded.
Rigelian version 3.6.0
Updated At: 2024-09-25
Changes: Sep 25, 2024
Version 3.6.0
This version includes:
• New Home Screen widgets.
• Alert user when network is not available.
• Bugfix for missing tracks on OpenHome players.
• Better detection whether a user has an active Pro subscription.
Rigelian version 3.5.6
Updated At: 2024-08-22
Changes: Aug 22, 2024
Version 3.5.6
New in this version:
• A new settings screen is added that puts relevant settings in a single place (requires at least iOS 15).
• Cover art settings are now maintained per player, useful for users that have both OpenHome and mpd players.
• Dark mode / light mode can be selected independent of the device setting.
• Improved discovery of Chord Poly and Hugo players.
• Solved an issue where adding a single track resulted in the addition of a complete album or playlist.
This is the last version of Rigelian that supports macOS Big Sur. For users still on that version, all functionality will be available without requiring a subscription from October 1st 2024 onwards.
Rigelian version 3.5.5
Updated At: 2024-06-24
Changes: Jun 24, 2024
Version 3.5.5
Bugfixes and stability improvements.
Rigelian version 3.5.4
Updated At: 2024-05-07
Changes: May 7, 2024
Version 3.5.4
Bugfixes and stability improvements.
Rigelian version 3.5.3
Updated At: 2024-04-28
Changes: Apr 28, 2024
Version 3.5.3
Stability improvements for the player connection.
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