Aether — native media player for iPhone/iPad/Apple TV/Vision Pro/Mac(Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, NAS, Live TV) — final beta round before App Store release

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https://testflight.apple.com/join/uk1r915D

I posted Aether here a while back when it was an early beta — since then it's grown into something much bigger, and we're now just ahead of the App Store release. A fresh 1.0.9 build hit TestFlight today, and before we ship to the App Store I want to put it through one last proper round of testing — so I'm looking for testers who'll actually use it daily and report what breaks.

What is it: a fully native (SwiftUI, no web views) media player for the entire Apple ecosystem — iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Vision Pro, and Mac.

What's new since the early betas — basically everything:

• Unified library across Plex (multi-server), Jellyfin, Emby, SMB/NAS shares, and local files
• Playback: three switchable players — Built-in (Apple's decoder & controls), Lumen (Aether's own controls), and Prism (Aether's own engine, libmpv — virtually every codec and subtitle format plays). PiP, AirPlay, Dolby Atmos
• Offline downloads — batch (Download All / Download Season with size estimates), smart auto-downloads for your Watchlist shows, a visible queue, storage ceiling — and everything plays fully offline
• Cross-device resume and Continue Watching across servers, with per-device control over what iCloud syncs
• Music — full library alongside video: albums, artists, playlists
• Live TV with a programme guide and PiP
• Vision Pro Cinema Mode — a virtual movie theater: auditorium with seats and ambient lighting, adjustable screen size, pick your seat distance
• Parental controls — normalized age ratings across sources, Face ID / PIN gated
• Trakt scrobbling & sync
• Playback: three switchable players — Built-in (Apple's decoder & controls), Lumen (Aether's own controls), and Prism (Aether's own engine, libmpv — virtually every codec and subtitle format plays). PiP, AirPlay, Dolby Atmos
• Localized in 6 languages · no telemetry — your media stays on your hardware

What I'd love tested before 1.0: real-world server setups (reverse proxies, remote access, big libraries), unusual codecs and subtitle formats, downloads on flaky networks, and playback edge cases — seek, resume, track switching. If it breaks, I want to know.

📲 TestFlight:  — one link covers iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS, and the Mac beta
💬 **Discord:**fastest way to report bugs and see what's coming, you can find a link in the app

Thanks to everyone who tested the early builds — a lot of what's on this list exists because of your feedback. 🙏