Your collection, catalogued.
Cover-art library, search, the playing track highlighted, and multiple pressings of the same album. Enriched automatically from MusicBrainz, Discogs and iTunes.
Your records,
now playing.
A display for your hi-fi that recognizes every record and CD you play, and shows it as it happens. It streams AirPlay and Bluetooth too.
Listens.Recognizes.Catalogs.Displays.
How it knows what's playing
Two ways
Oceano listens to your amplifier's REC OUT and recognizes each track by its acoustic fingerprint, a unique audio signature much like a fingerprint for sound. It catalogs as it listens: the first time a track plays through, Oceano learns it, and from then on it recognizes it on its own. You choose how it gets started.
Offline
Nothing leaves your house.
Recognition runs entirely on the device, against a fingerprint index built from your own collection. No cloud, no accounts, no API costs. The trade-off is simple: Oceano recognizes the records you've registered.
01
Add your records.
Scan a barcode and Oceano finds the exact pressing, with its artwork and tracklist.
02
Play it through once.
The first time, let each track play from start to finish without interruption. It doesn't have to be the whole side or the whole CD, just whole tracks. Confirm the record with one tap, and Oceano learns each track's fingerprint as it plays.
03
Then just enjoy it.
From the next play on, Oceano recognizes it by itself, and the artwork and track details simply appear on the display and on your phone.
Cataloging and recognition in one. Your collection teaches Oceano simply by being played.
Looking up artwork and tracklists when you add a record uses public music catalogs. You can also enter a record entirely by hand.
Cloud-assisted
Recognizes records you haven't catalogued yet.
When the local index doesn't know a track, Oceano asks the recognition services you configure: ACRCloud, AudD, or up to three custom providers. You choose their order, and whether to take the first answer or the best-scoring one. You bring your own API keys, so you control the cost and the contract. Newly recognized releases get their artwork and details automatically.
- →Local index first, always.
- →Provider order you set.
- →First answer, or best score.
- →Your own API keys.
Your own collection is still checked locally first.
Either way, Oceano asks instead of guessing. If it isn't sure, the play waits for you in a review queue, and is never logged wrong.
Stylus wear
Know when your needle needs changing, before your records do.
Register your cartridge and its rated lifetime. Oceano counts real vinyl playing time automatically from the tracks it recognizes, with no manual log, and shows remaining life and % worn. You're alerted before a worn stylus damages your records. Almost nobody tracks this today.
- 11.7%
- worn
- 883 h
- remaining
- Healthy
- condition
Now playing, up close
Every record, as it plays.
Once Oceano knows a record, there's nothing to do. Drop the needle and watch the artwork appear.
Follows the album side by side: A1, A2… B1. It doesn't start over on every track.
Sleeps as a clock, and wakes up when the music starts.
AirPlay and Bluetooth show up here too, with the real title and cover from the stream.
Everything else
One screen, the whole rig.
Add a record in seconds.
Scan the barcode, pick the pressing, save.
Amplifier control.
Power, input and volume over infrared, from your phone. It can learn commands from your existing remote.
Your equipment, described.
Amplifier profiles and inputs (e.g. “this input is vinyl”).
Streaming output.
AirPlay and Bluetooth play through the DAC you choose, with one tap.
iPhone app and web Studio.
Everything above from your phone, or on a bigger screen in the browser.
Where we are
A working prototype.
Oceano is a working prototype, in daily use in a real listening room. Today it's built from off-the-shelf components that were never designed to go together. Next, we build it properly: one display, exactly like the one you see here, with everything inside. Join the waitlist to follow along and be first in line.
What Oceano is not
- Not a streaming service: it recognizes what you already play, and receives AirPlay and Bluetooth from your own devices.
- Not a replacement for your amplifier, turntable or CD player.
- Not a Shazam clone: it listens continuously and keeps a growing library.
- Not a cloud product: it can run 100% offline.
FAQ
Questions
Will it work with my amplifier?+
Any amplifier with a REC OUT or tape out. Gear from any era works, and you replace nothing.
Does my listening data go anywhere?+
Not in offline mode. In cloud-assisted mode, only short audio samples go to the providers you configured.
Offline or cloud-assisted: which should I choose?+
Offline if privacy matters most and you're happy to register your records. Cloud-assisted if you want records you haven't catalogued to be recognized too.
What formats does it recognize?+
Vinyl, CD, tape and other line-level sources, plus AirPlay and Bluetooth metadata.
Why should the first play be uninterrupted?+
That's when Oceano learns each track's fingerprint, so it needs to hear it through. Whole tracks are enough, not a whole side or CD. After that, recognition is automatic.
What if it gets a track wrong?+
It asks instead of guessing: uncertain plays wait for one tap in the review queue.
Can I buy one?+
Not yet. It's a working prototype, and the integrated display is next. Join the waitlist.