What it does
Surroundify is not a playlist with a surround switch on it. A soundscape is a set of layers, each with a place in your room and a level of its own, and the speakers are worked out from both.
You do not assign the stream to channel 3. You put it to your left, and Surroundify works out what each speaker has to do about it. Move it while the sound is playing and the room follows — which is the only way to tell whether the wind is actually behind you or merely to the rear-left.
There is no supported-hardware list to check against. If the machine can already play through it, Surroundify can send to it — and it will use as many outputs as the device exposes. Two speakers give you a stereo image; six or eight give you the room.
Name it, drop your audio into groups, then mix it live through the speakers it will actually be played on rather than through headphones and a guess. It stays a draft until you publish it into the library, and it exports as a single file you can carry to another machine.
The player runs on the machine wired to the speakers; everything else is a browser pointed at it. Give it an HTTPS name and it installs to a phone home screen like an app — its own icon, no browser bar, straight into the player.
Phones only offer to install a site served over HTTPS, and a plain http://192.168.… address will never qualify. Type the name you want, press Claim, and the player orders the certificate and points the name at this machine. The name resolves to a local address, so it only works from home — which is the point. It renews itself without interrupting playback.
There is nothing to sign up for and no token to paste. Rooms, speaker layouts, mix profiles and your own presets live in a folder on the machine you installed it on, and you can back the lot up into one file. An account exists on the website if you want one — it records that a machine is yours and nothing from inside it — and the player never asks you for it.
The new version is unpacked beside the old one, checked, and only then switched to. If something is playing, the update button is replaced by a note saying so — updating anyway takes a second, deliberate click.
Restoring replaces what is on the machine rather than merging into it. Two things deliberately survive a restore: the address this machine answers on, and your notification preferences — putting back last month's backup should not take the player off its own name.
The room view
This is the diagram, not the player, but the mapping is the one the player works on: a source has coordinates in a room whose speakers you have located, and every channel’s level falls out of that. Here you watch the balance move. In the room, you hear it — which is the only reliable way to tell whether the wind is behind you or merely to the rear-left.
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