Press Kit

Last updated: July 2026

About Showboard

Showboard is a native macOS music player that combines bit-perfect playback with six live music sources in one app. Search, browse, and play your local library alongside nugs.net, TIDAL, Qobuz, Archive.org, and Phish.in. It is built for people who collect live concert recordings and care about how they sound.

Free. No subscription. Install on every Mac you own.

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Showboard is a native macOS music player for live-recording collectors, built by Chris Kave. It unifies six sources behind one search: a local library, nugs.net, TIDAL, Qobuz, Archive.org, and Phish.in, with bit-perfect output to an external DAC. Concert recordings come first. Set breaks, SBD/AUD/Matrix source badges, taper notes, and a Concert Diary of every show you've been to. Free, no subscription, no device limit. Available direct from showboard.app for macOS 14 or later.

Key Facts

Price: Free
Sources: Six: local library, nugs.net, TIDAL, Qobuz, Archive.org, Phish.in
License: No device limit. Install it on all your Macs.
Platform: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, Apple Silicon and Intel
Current version: 1.6 (July 2026). First released March 2026.
Founder: Chris Kave
Website: showboard.app
Distribution: Direct download (not on the App Store. Exclusive audio mode needs CoreAudio access that Apple's sandbox blocks.)

Latest release

Version 1.6 (July 2026) adds Tapers, a new Discover section for the people behind the recordings. Browse and follow the recordists in your library, credited by name, and open a taper's cross-source discography with a source-mix breakdown and best-of rails. The Home screen was rebuilt around cross-source Continue Listening and Most Played, a new full-screen Tape player lays out sets, segues, and jams on the timeline, and your Loved albums, artists, and venues now sync across your Macs over iCloud.

Version 1.5 (June 2026) introduced Fresh Tapes, a running feed of recently posted live recordings pulled across nugs.net, Archive.org, and Phish.in, and the one-show-every-source picker that lays out every recording of a night in one place so you choose which to play. It also brought the Dark Glass Studio visual rebuild and a redesigned Concert Diary. Version 1.4 added iCloud sync across your Macs and whole-home output to BluOS systems and AirPlay.

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Screenshots

Dark theme. All screenshots show actual app content.

Showboard home screen with Recently Added and the Fresh Tapes feed, all six sources in the sidebar

Fresh Tapes: recently posted live recordings pulled across nugs.net, Archive.org, and Phish.in

Show detail for Cornell 5/8/77 listing every available source, so you pick which recording to play

Phish.in browser: 2,123 shows across 35 years, with an On This Day in Phish History rail

Concert Diary: a ticket-stub timeline of every show you've logged, with automatic Phish.in matching

Audio device settings with the signal path and bit-perfect output indicator

Try Showboard

Free to download. No credit card required. Download for Mac →

Press Inquiries

chris@showboard.app