Tyto player is streamer software aiming for better sound.

It runs on your streamer hardware or on a Raspberry Pi. Works with Roon, HQPlayer, UPnP/DLNA and Squeezelite.

Free to use. Try the better-sound tuning for 24 hours of music. If you like it, pay €50 once. If not, keep the free player.

Works on any Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 based device USB DACs and HiFiBerry HATs, including the Magna Mano

The better-sound tuning

Taming power usage and current noise.

With everything a Pi does, data moves back and forth inside the computer. It uses its processor, its memory, its SD card, and it talks to the DAC. All of that traffic is, in reality, small electrical currents, and with them small amounts of noise. How the software is set up decides how large those currents are and in what rhythm they run.

Tyto comes with tuned profiles that tame the streamer so those currents are as favourable as possible. The idea is that the clocks, and in the end the DAC, can do their work better.

We put great effort into our tuning profiles, using a special measurement bench. No guessing.

Try before you buy

24 hours of music to decide.

Every download starts with the sound tuning switched on. The clock only runs while music plays, so an evening a day gives you about a week to listen, compare, and make up your mind.

  1. 1Listen. 24 hours of playback with the full tuning, on your own system.
  2. 2After that, the Pi simply keeps playing as the free player. It never goes silent on you.
  3. 3Liked it? A licence brings the tuning back. Paste the key on the player's page, done.
Tuning trial14 h 52 min of 24 h played

What the player's page shows while the trial runs.

The price

Free, or €50 once.

Free version

€0
  • The full player: Roon, HQPlayer, UPnP/DLNA, Squeezelite
  • Runs on any Pi 4 or 5 based device
  • Updates included
Download

Better-sound tuning

€50once
  • Everything in the free version, plus our two tuned profiles
  • One licence, all your Pis
  • No subscription. Updates included
Buy licence

We are a small company. One price, paid once, keeps things simple for you and for us.

Download

Put Tyto player on an SD card to start.

Raspberry Pi 5

Also for streamers built on a Pi 5, such as the Magna Mano III.5.

tyto-player-1.0-pi5.img.xz · sha256 published with the release Download for Pi 5
Raspberry Pi 4

Also for streamers built on a Pi 4 or Compute Module 4.

tyto-player-1.0-pi4.img.xz · sha256 published with the release Download for Pi 4

SD card of 8 GB or more.

Steps to follow

  1. 1Download the image.
  2. 2Write it to an SD card with Raspberry Pi Imager (free, for Windows and Mac). Choose "Use custom" and pick the file.
  3. 3Put the card in your Pi or streamer, connect the network cable, switch on.
  4. 4Go to tytoplayer.com/find to open your player's page and finish the setup. Then it's ready in Roon, HQPlayer and the rest.

Buy

Get your licence.

Mail us which streamer and DAC you use. We reply with your licence key and a payment request for €50, by card, iDEAL or PayPal. Paste the key on your player's page. That's all.

Lost it? Mail us and we send it again.

€50once
Mail us for a licence

hello@tytoplayer.com