Features
Links and sharing
Paste links into Search, open nuvo:// links, and share songs and playlists without a server.
Paste anything into Search
Search accepts a link. Nuvo reads only http, https and nuvo links and decides what the link is.
| You paste | Nuvo does |
|---|---|
| A YouTube or YouTube Music link | Shows the song, or a playlist import |
| A SoundCloud link | Shows the track or set |
| An Apple Music song link | Looks the song up, then finds a playable match |
| A Deezer song link | Same |
| A Yandex Music song link | Same |
| A Shazam link | Same |
| A TikTok video | Finds the song by the post’s named sound, then by listening to the clean sound, then to the video |
A nuvo:// link |
Opens the artist, album, playlist or shared list |
| A Spotify link | Tells you to import a file instead |
If Nuvo cannot find a song, it says why in plain words. Recognition from audio needs yt-dlp and ffmpeg. See troubleshooting.
Share a song or a playlist
Nuvo has no server, so a share link carries the songs itself:
nuvo://share?id=<payload>The payload holds the title, and for each song a source tag, the YouTube or SoundCloud id when there is one, names, and duration. It is compressed when that is smaller.
- A link aims to fit in one chat message: about 1,800 characters.
- If names for every song do not fit, Nuvo drops the names of songs that have an id. The receiver looks them up.
- A share holds up to 5,000 tracks. A link longer than the copy limit of 60,000 characters cannot be copied.
- Decoding is strict. A broken or newer link is refused.
The receiver’s Nuvo rebuilds the list on their machine and matches songs it must.
For people without Nuvo
The share sheet can also copy:
- A plain list of songs, one per line.
- An anonymous YouTube list for the first 50 YouTube songs.
- A link to a single song’s source.
Privacy
Opening a link never sends your library anywhere. Song lookups for Apple Music, Deezer and Yandex Music call the public API of that service for the song’s title and artist.