The music player for live show collectors

You were there.
Now hear it again.

All your live recordings. Every source. One app. Search once, hear it all. $39.99 for Mac.

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The Story

August 1998. Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine. 60,000 people on a decommissioned Cold War bomber base. At 3am, the band played an hour-long ambient jam lit only by candles the audience made with their own hands. Meteors streaked overhead.

You were there.

Now you want to hear it again. So you open Phish.in for the SBD. Archive.org for the audience tapes. Your local files for the FM broadcast you’ve had since ’98. Three sources. Three apps. Three search bars. For one night.

This isn’t just about Lemonwheel. It’s about every show you’ve ever been to. The Gorge sunset set. The MSG run where nothing repeated. The Red Rocks rain that turned the second set transcendent.

Showboard brings all of it together.

One app. Every source. Every show. Every recording. Search once, find everything. Play it the way it was meant to be heard.

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Showboard showing the Lemonwheel setlist from August 16, 1998 with SBD badges, set breaks, and jam notes

Lemonwheel, August 16, 1998. Phish.in SBD. Set breaks, jam notes, source badges.

My Shows

Your concert life, in one place.

Log shows you've attended. Showboard searches all six sources and finds every recording. Rate them, add notes, browse your timeline.

Phish★

The Gorge, George, WA

2024-07-14
Phish★

Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

2023-12-31
Billy Strings★

Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO

2023-07-21
Phish★

Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, ME

1998-08-16
Goose★

Dillon Amphitheater, Dillon, CO

2022-09-03
127
Shows
14
Artists
43
Venues

Log any show

Date, venue, artist, personal notes. Build a timeline of every concert you've been to.

Find every recording

Mark a show and Showboard searches all six sources in the background. SBDs, audience tapes, soundboards. If a recording exists, it finds it.

Rate and remember

Star ratings, personal notes, favorite shows. Your concert history with context.

Live Shows grid showing attended concerts with photos from Billy Strings, Goose, Dead & Company, and more

127 shows. Every recording found automatically.

Share the moment

Remember the night.

Every show gets its own card with a unique gradient generated from the artist name. Build one now.

Try it. Type a show you were at.

Showboard

I Was There

Phish

Loring Air Force Base

Limestone, ME

1998-08-16

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One Library

Stop switching apps. Everything plays.

Your files, your streams, your archives. Type a date or a song and Showboard searches them all.

Local Files

FLAC, DSD, ALAC, WAV, and more

nugs.net

nugs.net

Hi-res live concert streaming

TIDAL

TIDAL

Lossless and Hi-Res streaming

Qobuz

Qobuz

Studio-quality lossless

Archive.org

Archive.org

Free live recordings archive

Phish.in

Phish.in

Complete Phish live archive

Phish.in source browser in Showboard with random picks, on-this-day shows, and year-by-year browsing

Phish.in

Qobuz integration in Showboard showing recently played and release history

Qobuz

One search, every recording

Type “Red Rocks 7/10/99” and get the SBD from Phish.in, the AUD from Archive, and the studio album from Qobuz. All in one list.

One artist, whole picture

Pick an artist. See studio albums from TIDAL, live shows from nugs, free recordings from Archive, and your local files. No more switching tabs.

Your files play first

Already downloaded that SBD? Showboard finds it and plays your local copy automatically. No buffering, no stream quality compromise.

How it connects

Phish.in & Archive.org work out of the box, free.TIDAL, Qobuz & nugs.net use your existing subscriptions.Local files import from any folder you point to.
Set 2

Showboard speaks live music.

Every other player treats your concert recordings like broken albums. Wrong track names, no set breaks, no context. Showboard understands live music down to the conventions the taper community invented.

Billy Strings at Arlington Assembly Hall, 2022-03-27: full tracklist with set breaks, SBD source badge, and concert photo

Billy Strings, Arlington Assembly Hall, 2022-03-27. Set breaks, source badges, taper notes.

SET II

Set Breaks

Set I, Set II, Encore. Jump straight to any set. Skip the soundcheck. Start where the show gets good.

SBD

Source Type Badges

SBD, AUD, Matrix. Color-coded at a glance so you know exactly what you're hearing before you press play.

DSBD>DAT>WAV

Taper Notes

The story behind the recording. Source chain, microphone placement, transfer notes. Displayed in monospaced text the way tapers intended.

★ Jamcharts

Jam Notes & Charts

See what makes each version special. Jamcharts annotations surface the moments worth hearing, right in the track listing.

AUTO

Live Show Detection

Drop a folder of recordings in. Showboard reads the dates, parses venues, and files them as live shows automatically. No tagging required.

42 shows

Venue Explorer

Browse by venue. See every show at Red Rocks, The Gorge, MSG. Across every source.

From the audience

People who get it.

“My whole thing was Audirvana for the bit-perfect stuffand then Relisten when I wanted to pull up a show real quick. Having both in the same app is wild. My wife is tired of hearing about it but the exclusive mode output is legit.”

D
David K.Beta tester
Audiophile, Qobuz subscriber

“I had Relisten on my phone, VLC for SHNs, nugs in a browser tab, and a spreadsheet tracking which shows I'd downloaded from etree. Now it's just... one app. Typed in Hartford '97 and got the SBD, two AUDs, and the matrix all in one list.”

J
Jake P.Collector
Dead head since '89, 300+ shows

“I tape. I've been taping since 2004. Every other player I've tried treats my recordings like they're broken podcasts or something. This one actually knows what set breaks are. It reads my taper notes. That's all I wanted honestly.”

M
Melissa R.Taper
Taper, mostly East Coast lots

“Got into Billy last year. Tried to find that Renewal set from Red Rocks and spent like 20 minutes bouncing between nugs and Archive trying to figure out which source was best. Showboard just showed me all of them ranked. Yeah it's solid.”

S
Sarah T.Explorer
Billy Strings, Goose, Khruangbin

“Someone on PT mentioned this and I figured whatever, another music app. But the source badges are real, the FLAC handling is clean, and it actually pulled in my whole Phish.in history. Wasn't expecting that.”

M
Marcus W.Collector
Phish since Junta, SBD hoarder

“Forty bucks and done. I was paying for Roon plus nugs plus TIDAL and half the time nothing talked to each other anyway. Canceled two of those. No regrets.”

C
Chris H.Audiophile
Former Roon subscriber, WSP fan
Sound Quality

The sound matters because the shows matter.

You were there. The playback should honor that. Bit-perfect audio from file to DAC, with nothing in between that doesn't belong.

Source
FLAC 16/44.1
Decoder
Lossless
Volume Leveling
Album mode
EQ
Bypass
Volume
-6 dB
To Your DAC
Exclusive mode
Bit-Perfect
Lossless
Processed

Nothing between you and the music

Showboard takes exclusive control of your audio output. No system mixer, no resampling, no interference. What was recorded is what you hear.

Automatic sample rate switching

Your DAC switches to match every file automatically. Play a 44.1 kHz SBD, then a 192 kHz studio master. No settings to change.

Gapless playback

The segue from Tweezer into Tweezer Reprise doesn’t have a gap in real life. It shouldn’t in your player either. Zero-gap transitions across every source.

Shape the sound

10-band parametric EQ with presets. Tame a harsh AUD or add warmth to a flat SBD. Without leaving the app.

Headphone crossfeed

Blends the stereo field for headphone listening the way speakers do naturally. Long sessions without the fatigue.

Every output you have

USB DACs, AirPlay, Bluetooth, Thunderbolt, and built-in audio. Showboard detects your devices and switches automatically when you plug in.

Plays everything you've got

FLAC

Up to 384kHz/32-bit

DSD

DSD64, DSD128, DSD256

ALAC

Apple Lossless

WAV / AIFF

Uncompressed PCM

WavPack

Lossless & lossy

MP3 / AAC / OGG

Lossy formats

No sandbox. No compromise.

Apple's App Store sandbox blocks the exclusive audio hardware access that makes bit-perfect playback possible. Other players accept that tradeoff. We didn't. Showboard ships direct so your DAC gets exactly what was recorded.

Your DAC. Our signal path. Nothing in between.

SchiitToppingiFiChordFiiORMEFocusriteSMSLDenafripsCambridge Audio

Works with any USB audio device. No drivers required on macOS.

The Comparison

See for yourself.

FeatureShowboardRoonAudirvanaApple MusicSpotifynugs.net
Live show management✓————Partial
Concert diary✓—————
Play by set (Set I, Set II, Encore)✓—————
Source type badges✓—————
Taper notes✓—————
Compare versions across sources✓—————
Venue Explorer✓—————
Archive.org integration✓—————
Phish.in integration✓—————
nugs.net integration✓✓———Native
TIDAL integration✓✓✓———
Qobuz integration✓✓✓———
Lossless, bit-perfect output✓✓✓———
Native Mac app✓—✓✓——
Gapless playback✓✓✓✓—✓
DSD playback✓✓✓———
Parametric EQ✓✓✓———
Web remote control✓✓——Connect—
Price$39.99$13/mo$149.99$11/mo$11/mo$13–25/mo

Read the full comparison: Showboard vs Roon · Showboard vs Audirvana

6
Sources unified
100+
Audio formats
$0
Per month, forever
<1s
Launch time
Under the hood

Built right.

Native Mac appInstant launchTiny footprintAuto-updates

A real Mac app

Launches in under a second. Uses less memory than a browser tab. Keyboard shortcuts, menu bar, notifications, native dark mode. Built for the Mac from day one.

Uncompromised audio

Showboard takes exclusive control of your audio hardware. No system mixer in the way. No resampling. The file plays exactly as it was encoded.

Always up to date

New versions appear as a notification. One click to update. No app store, no manual downloads.

Encore

One price. Every update. Forever yours.

No subscriptions. No recurring charges. Pay once, own it forever.

$39.99one-time

14-day free trial. No credit card required.

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Everything included

✓All six sources in one library
✓Audiophile-grade playback
✓Set breaks, source badges, taper notes
✓Concert diary (My Shows)
✓Song Versions & Venue Explorer
✓EQ and headphone crossfeed
✓AirPlay and Bluetooth output
✓Control from your phone (web remote)
✓Menu bar player
✓Every future update

Meanwhile

Roon
$13/mo

or $830 lifetime

Audirvana
$149.99

or $7.99/mo

Apple Music
$11/mo

forever

Spotify
$11/mo

forever

nugs.net
$13–25/mo

forever

Audirvana charges $149.99 for local-only playback. No streaming sources. No live music features. Showboard gives you six sources for $39.99.

30-day money-back guarantee. If Showboard isn't for you, email us and we'll refund you. No questions.

Common questions

Before you ask.

More questions? Visit support or email chris@showboard.app

A note from the builder

One night my wife Sabrina and I were flipping through our ticket stub books, remembering shows we'd been to together. We'd point at a stub and say “pull that one up.” And every time, it was the same thing. Open Phish.in. Open Archive. Open the folder of SBDs. Three apps. Three searches. For one night we both remembered perfectly.

So I built the app we always wanted.

My name is Chris. Sabrina and I have been to hundreds of shows together. Showboard exists because those nights meant something, and the music deserves better than three tabs and a prayer.

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