Shelv Player
Vasco Kugler Music iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
Shelv Player is a free Music app for iPhone and iPad by Vasco Kugler. Rated 5.0/5 from 7 ratings. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated September 13, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 7 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 25 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 13
- 2026 · v1.5
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About Shelv Player
Shelv is a native music player for Navidrome and Subsonic-compatible servers. Stream your own music library, download it for offline listening, add radio stations, and enjoy smooth playback with gapless, transcoding and smart pre-cache. Shelv also includes mixes, synced lyrics, queue sync and listening insights. Features: - Smart Mixes - Instant Mix - Infinity Mix - Random Albums - Shuffle All - Radio Stations - Offline Downloads - Full Library Download - Listening Insights - Synced Lyrics - LRCLIB Support - Gapless Playback - Transcoding - Smart Pre-cache - Queue Sync - Scrobbling - ReplayGain - Multiple Servers - AirPlay & CarPlay - iCloud Sync Shelv requires your own Navidrome or Subsonic-compatible music server.
Ratings & reviews
5.0
7 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.5 · Updated September 13, 2026
- Added Siri playback by name for songs, albums, artists and playlists - Added Shortcuts actions for playback, mixes and navigation - Added a rebuilt artist page with top songs, similar artists and a discography filter - Added an actions menu to the Top Songs header for queueing the whole set - Added playlist folders, in the app and in CarPlay - Added support for multiple music libraries - Added a local search history - Added share links for songs, albums, artists and playlists - Added French localization - Added an actions menu to the player - Added a counter for pending scrobbles - Added a shuffle button and a filter to the favorites overview - Added Play and Shuffle buttons above the favorite songs list - Added artist top songs and an instant mix button to CarPlay - Improved Infinity Mode with a deeper pool and a start from the current song - Improved artist page loading, sections no longer pop in - Improved library-wide play and shuffle controls - Improved album sorting by artist - Fixed a CarPlay crash on connect with five tabs - Fixed missing artists in CarPlay's alphabetical lists - Fixed downloaded playlists missing while offline - Fixed pull to refresh on Discover - Fixed the player toast on devices without a notch - Removed Recap
App privacy
The developer, Vasco Kugler, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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