Showboard

@showboard.app

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You were there. Now hear it again. A Mac player for live show collectors: six sources (nugs, Archive.org, Phish.in, TIDAL, Qobuz, your local files) in one search, bit-perfect to your DAC. Built by a fan, not a startup. Free.

Showboard's new Tapers section: recent live-recording submissions and tapers to follow, grouped by band.
Showboard's Preferences on macOS showing the audio output device picker, with AirPlay and BluOS output options and a resync delay setting.
A small red electric guitar built from LEGO bricks, standing on a guitar stand with a white pickguard, plugged by a real cable into a Fender combo amp on a wooden table. A real red guitar, a houseplant, and a gray couch sit in the background.
A black cat with bright golden-amber eyes, loafing on a couch with paws tucked, looking right at the camera.
Showboard's Fresh Tapes view on Mac. A grid of live-show cover art pulled from nugs.net, Archive.org, and Phish.in, each tile badged with its source, under the header 'Freshly added live recordings, balanced across sources.' Artist filter chips run across the top.
Showboard's Song Versions screen: a search for "Eyes of the World" returns 450 versions found, listed across source tabs for nugs.net (191), Archive.org (202), Phish.in (5), TIDAL (35), and Qobuz (35). Each row shows the date, the Grateful Dead or Phish performance, the venue, and a source badge with the file format.
Showboard show detail for Phish 12/31/95 at Madison Square Garden. An "Also available" row offers the same show from multiple sources, with the Set I tracklist below and all six sources in the left sidebar.
Showboard's redesigned v1.5 Home screen on macOS: a dark glass interface with a Fresh Tapes row of recent live-show cover art, plus Recently Added and This Week in Music History.
The Showboard app showing Phish, 12/31/95 at Madison Square Garden. Below the setlist, the taper's recording lineage is rendered in monospace: Schoeps mk4 microphones into a Sonosax preamp into a Sony D10 recorder, with detailed source and patch notes.
Type card on near-black: 'The room is part of the recording.' in amber and cream, with a HOT TAKE label and AUD/SBD badges. A lively amber waveform (the audience tape, full of room) flattens into a thin flat line (the soundboard).