🏷️ About: Lightning DS is the iOS control app for Lightning-enabled hardware from AURALiC. It’s an intuitive interface for browsing and searching your digital music library, controlling playback, creating playlists, adding favorites and much more.
For a $6K streamer I would expect much much more! It keeps dropping wifi connection. LightningDS is not connecting with the streamer so 90 % of itme I see a message „searching for streamer” The whole system, app including, is a big disfunctional piece of junk. Feels like a cheap Chinase piece of work
I have used the Lightning DS iPad app since 2016. Worked just fine. However recently it stopped working as it did before. After many attempts to remedy by rebooting iPad, Airies Mini and router, I finally resorted to uninstalling and reinstalling LightningDS . Now LightningDS cannot find the device. It does connect to its built in hotspot, but then fails to find the device. It appears there is a bug in LightningDS , because upon failure to find the device LightningDS instructions are to push the exit button on the remote. The Aries Mini does not have a remote. This was reported to Auralic. I was told to contact the online community. Do they know how to fix this bug? Doubtful. LightningDS needs an update. By the way, the iPhone Lightning DS app continues to work properly, so it’s obviously not a hardware issue. Really poor support compared to Bluesound.
Crashes almost every time, and I have to restart my iPhone. Please, correct that...
Crashes often, and many times can’t find the device.
You would think the developer of LightningDS would stay on top of ensuring that it will work reliably. Guaranteed to crash.
Now the iPad version doesn’t work but the iPhone version does. It very weird it can’t find my lightning device but it’s easily found on my iPhone. Doesn’t make sense
Constantly crashes cannot connect reliably to Auralic Hardware. Very sorry for the 4 figures I spent on their hardware.
No album cover shows up on my cd’s I downloaded,all of them. Terrible
Before iOS13 all was well. But now LightningDS crashes consistently. It crashes connecting to a DLNA server, it crashes updating album cover from a music folder connected directly to the USB port, it crashes playing internet radio, in short, this is a pointless and utterly useless app. I emailed their tech support and their solution was, seek support on Auralic user forums. I offered their tech support that I’ll send them crash logs and reproducible test cases, but they were not interested. Everyone that I know of and owns Auralic devices been running into the same app issues as I have. However their tech support seems to think there are no issues or problems. So now I’ve a hw that I spent nearly 4K for it, sitting on a shelf, being useless since they’re refusing to acknowledge and fix their software issues.
Like the other review says, LightningDS does not work properly with the newest iOS. Please fix asap!!!
LightningDS used to be good but recently it has been throwing errors “unable to play selected track” then stops working.
I’ve rebooted all my devices, reinstalled LightningDS and still haven’t been able to get it working properly.
So frustating, the equipament is so great, but the apps is as shame.
Since updating to iOS 17, DS had not worked properly. Oh I can still get music to play but something clearly is wrong
App is frequently crashes on my 2 different iPhones. Not sure is it’s recent iOS upgrade. Please fix it . Otherwise app is great.
Love that you guys developed the iPhone app. Much more convenient than the iPad app as I always have my phone on me.
I just purchased an Aries Mini to replace an Apple TV for streaming music, and it has been a huge difference. The setup through LightningDS was a breeze. If you're an audiophile or just like great sounding music, buy the Aries, and download LightningDS . If you use Tidal, it has Tidal built into LightningDS . For the money, it is just such a great purchase. Very happy. Five stars all the way.
In my opinion, Lightning DS is a great app from an audio company that actually listens to its users. Every time I contacted Auralic with questions/issues/suggestions. I was always cordially greeted back by the company’s CEO who is always making an effort to improve the application. For example, I pointed out that the Tidal desktop app displayed a small “M” on the album covers that were offered in Masters/MQA format, and that it would be a nice touch doing the same on the Lightning DS’ Tidal interface. Auralic listened and did just that! On their next update, they added “MQA” at the bottom of the Tidal albums that offered the format. That feature alone made me want to use LightningDS more! The WiFi connection also improved greatly! I think Auralic nails is with the Lightning DS, when it could simply just tell users to pay $500 for a Roon license. Even then, I would still invest in their great products.
Keep up the good work
Came to LightningDS from others as a result of ongoing frustrations. Glitchyness! (Word?)
Simple, straightforward, stable.
Apparently LightningDS initially had issues which they all do.
Ironed out clearly.
When I first downloaded Lightning a few years ago, it was pretty buggy, but it has really matured into a stable platform.
Lightning DS is very safe to use.
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It’s an intuitive interface for browsing and searching your digital music library, controlling playback, creating playlists, adding favorites and much more.
Lightning DS is the iOS control app for Lightning-enabled hardware from AURALiC.
