Lowbeam
Navidrome client

Your own music, in the car.

A music player for your own Navidrome server, built to run on the screen in the car, on Android Automotive or over Android Auto, as well as on the phone. Desktop and iOS come later.

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Lowbeam on the Volvo EX30 screen, playing Guiding Lights by Ghost, with cover art, a scrub bar and a pause button.
Volvo EX30, now playing.
Runs on
Android Automotive, Android Auto and Android phones
Desktop and iOS come later.
Plays from
Your own Navidrome server
Subsonic and OpenSubsonic API.
Talks to
Your server and nothing else
Credentials stay in the device's secure storage.

In the car and on the phone

The same app on two Volvo head units, Google's generic Android Automotive screen, an Android Auto display and an Android phone. Click any shot to open it full size.

The XC40 media screen titled Lowbeam, with Recent, Albums, Artists and Playlists tabs and two albums listed under Albums.
Volvo XC40, browsing albums.
The EX30 media screen showing the track list of Skeleta by Ghost, each row with cover art, title and artist.
Volvo EX30, an album's track list.
The Lowbeam phone app playing Heart of Gold by Neil Young, with the Harvest cover art above the title, a scrub bar and transport controls.
Android phone, now playing.
The generic Android Automotive media screen showing Lowbeam's Recent tab in landscape, with one album listed and the car's climate bar below.
Generic Android Automotive, recently added.
The generic Android Automotive now-playing screen showing Lachryma by Ghost, cover art on the left and track details on the right.
Generic Android Automotive, now playing.
An Android Auto screen with Google Maps navigating on the left and Lowbeam's playback card on the right, playing Cenotaph by Ghost over the album art.
Android Auto, playing beside navigation.
Lowbeam's now-playing screen filling the left of an Android Auto display, with cover art, Cenotaph by Ghost, a scrub bar and transport controls, and the map beside it.
Android Auto, now playing.
Lowbeam's track list for Harvest by Neil Young on the left of an Android Auto display, each row with cover art, title and artist, and the map beside it.
Android Auto, an album's track list.

How it works

Plays from your own Navidrome server

Lowbeam is a client, not a service. Enter your server address and sign in, and your albums, artists and playlists are there. There is no catalogue and nothing to subscribe to. Your credentials stay on the device, in the platform's secure storage, and Lowbeam talks to no server but yours.

Works when the connection drops

The library is stored on the device, so browsing and search keep working with no signal, and what you have played is cached.

Fits into the car

Lowbeam appears in the car's own media list, so the steering wheel buttons, voice and the rest of the screen work the way they already do. That holds both ways it gets there: installed in the car on Android Automotive, or projected from the phone over Android Auto. You can cap the stream quality and the cache size for driving on a mobile connection.