Device Ecosystem

Icoustic is built as a home of devices, not a single-app island. Every Mac, iPad, and iPhone can take part — and you choose how.

Roles

Roles are capabilities, not locked modes:

• Library — holds your music files and can serve them to other devices in the home
• Player — where the sound comes out; owns the queue for that destination
• Remote — browses libraries and controls any player

A device can do one job, or several at once. A Mac with the collection is often a library and a controller. An iPad by the stereo can be the player. Your phone can be a remote. Or one iPad can hold the files, play them, and control itself.

Agnostic setup

There is no required topology. Common patterns:

1. Mac library + iPad player — files stay on the Mac; sound comes from the iPad
2. Single device — browse, play, and control on one machine
3. Phone remote — leave library and speakers alone; drive the queue from your pocket

Change the layout when your room or hardware changes. Nothing forces a permanent “server” and “client.”

What’s next

See Platforms / Ecosystem for the product overview, then Adding a Library Folder to put music on a device.