# Weave FM

> Your albums, your artists, your covers, playing on every device in the house from your own hardware.

Weave FM is one face of the Weave family from Epiphani Studios. Weave Player plays the films
and shows you own, Weave FM plays your own music, and Weave Radio holds the streaming services
and stations you already listen to. All three are the same application and are covered by a
single one-time purchase, sold as Weave Player.

## Price
Weave Player: $34.99, one-time, in United States dollars, sold by Epiphani Studios LLC
through Polar as merchant of record. One purchase covers one household and every Apple device it
owns (Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV), and everyone who lives there. There is no subscription and no renewal.

## Runs on
Macs with macOS 15 or later, iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later, and Apple TV with tvOS 17 or later. One app on each device: the Mac indexes and serves the library; the iPhone, iPad, and
Apple TV apps read it. Verify the current Mac version and its minimum macOS: https://updates.belstone.com/weave-player/appcast.json

## Formats
Containers: MKV, AVI, MP4, TS, and VOB. Video: H.264, HEVC, VC-1, and AV1. Audio: DTS, TrueHD, FLAC,
ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and Opus. Subtitles: tracks inside the file and subtitle files beside it.
Engine: libmpv on FFmpeg, decoding in hardware through VideoToolbox on Apple silicon.

## How a film reaches a screen
The Mac serves each file over HTTP with range requests, so any device seeks straight to any point.
Devices on the same network find the Mac through Bonjour. An Epiphani account signs the Apple TV in
with a short device code and keeps each person's place in a film across every device in the house.

## On the Mac
Double-click a film and it opens in its own Weave Player window, first frame in about eight tenths of a second on a MacBook Pro, with the library left asleep. Weave is listed under Open With.

## What it does
- Albums, the way they were made: Albums, artists and covers, with a play queue and a Now Playing that treats a record as a record.
- Gets the names right: MusicBrainz with AcoustID fingerprinting repairs the metadata on files that arrived with none, behind a confidence gate, so a track gets its details once the match clears it.
- Libraries on more than one Mac: Each person keeps their collection on their own machine, and Weave FM joins them into one shelf and marks whose library each record came from.
- Dropbox as a shelf: A Dropbox folder joins the library as a member alongside your local drives.
- Plays every file you own: libmpv on FFmpeg: lossless, compressed and everything in between, without conversion.
- The same app plays films: Weave FM is the music face of Weave Player, so one index and one purchase cover both.
- Offline on the plane: Download to the iPhone or iPad and the music plays with nothing connected.
- Everyone keeps their own place: Per member listen state on a shared library, so two people can play the same record and neither loses their spot.

## Where the library lives
On the owner's own machines. The Mac application indexes the folders it is pointed at and serves
them over the household's own network using Bonjour discovery, so playback comes from the copy the
household already owns.

## The three sites
- Weave Player: https://weaveplayer.com
- Weave FM: https://weavefm.com
- Weave Radio: https://weaveradio.com

## Publisher
Epiphani Studios LLC.