A lasting home for your music
Your music.
Fully yours.
Aro brings the files you own back to life. Host the library wherever it belongs, connect from anywhere it is reachable, and keep verified copies across every Aro you choose.
01 / Ownership
A real home for your music.
Your collection is more than access to a catalogue. Aro starts with the files you chose, keeps them in their original quality, and never quietly edits or deletes the source.
- Original files remain exactly as you added them
- FLAC, ALAC, AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and OGG Vorbis together
- Stored or linked libraries, depending on how you keep music
02 / Host anywhere
Your Aro lives where you choose.
Run it inside the macOS app or headless on an always-on Linux computer, server, container, or compatible NAS. Nearby Aros find it automatically; farther away, connect directly to any secure address you make reachable.
- Works across local, private, and public networks
- No Aro cloud account or relay in the middle
- Approve, limit, or remove every connected device
03 / Durability
Every Aro makes the library stronger.
Connected Aros keep a synchronized library of their own, not a disposable view into one machine. Keep selected music—or every available song—on each Mac you choose, creating independent, verified copies across your devices.
- The full library can remain playable if the host is unavailable
- Every copied song is complete and checked against the original
- Interrupted copies continue instead of starting over
04 / Listening
Hear the recording, not the player.
Bit-perfect playback is the starting point. Aro matches native sample rates, can take exclusive control of wired equipment, and shows the whole signal path when you want to look closer.
- The file’s original sample rate follows it to your audio device
- Gapless albums and optional loudness matching
- Choose a DAC, headphones, HomePod, TV, or AirPlay speaker
05 / Collection
Your shelves, alive again.
Add a folder and Aro turns it into a library made for browsing. Artwork, artists, albums, listening history, and library health bring order and rediscovery without turning music into a feed.
- Folders stay updated as your files change
- Find duplicates, alternate copies, moved songs, and gaps
- See listening time, favourites, formats, genres, and decades
06 / Portability
You can always take it with you.
A collection should never feel trapped. Export the entire library into tidy Artist and Album folders, carry recoverable removals with it, or move Aro’s Library Data when your storage changes.
- Repeatable, resumable whole-library exports
- Existing files are respected, never silently overwritten
- Sharing can continue after the Aro window closes
The full collection
Every reason to choose Aro.
37 verified capabilities, drawn directly from the product—not a roadmap, and not a list of technical internals.
Build a lasting library from the music files you own, without depending on a subscription catalogue or cloud account.
Aro preserves the exact files you add without recompressing, retagging, renaming, or changing their format.
Enjoy FLAC, ALAC, AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and OGG Vorbis libraries together in one player.
Point Aro at a music folder and it discovers playable songs throughout every subfolder, complete with embedded metadata and artwork.
Watched folders refresh automatically as music is added, edited, moved, or removed, keeping the library aligned with the files you manage.
Keep a protected Aro-managed copy of the collection, or link music in place when you prefer to use existing storage without duplication.
Stop watching a folder or remove a song from Aro without deleting the original music from disk.
Relocate Aro’s Library Data from the app when storage needs change, carrying its music and records together.
Development preview
Start your Aro.
Aro is available now as an early preview for macOS 26 and later. Choose the build that matches your Mac.
Choose your Mac
Apple Silicon covers M1 and every newer M-series Mac. Intel is for older Macs with an Intel processor.
Preview builds are ad-hoc signed rather than Apple-notarized. Only download Aro from this official repository.