Stream Lossless from a NAS | Sleeve
Frequently asked questions
- Can Sleeve stream FLAC from a NAS over WebDAV?
- Yes. A network share at home over WebDAV — Nextcloud, Synology, QNAP and most NAS boxes — is one of the four source kinds, and FLAC is played as-is without re-encoding.
- What happens when the Wi-Fi drops?
- What you have played from a cloud drive or network share is kept in a local cache, so it keeps playing off Wi-Fi.
- Can I control the cache size?
- Yes. You choose the cache size, see what it is using, and clear it whenever you want.
- Does it re-encode my lossless files?
- No. FLAC, ALAC, AAC, MP3, WAV and AIFF are played as they are.
The short answer
The question "when the NAS is asleep" is the one that decides whether a NAS-based library is pleasant or annoying.
Sleeve keeps what you have played from a cloud drive or a network share in a local cache, so it keeps playing off Wi-Fi.
You choose the cache size
Not a hidden default, not a growth you discover later — you choose the cache size, see what it is using, and clear it whenever you want.
That matters because the cache is the only place Sleeve spends your storage, and the whole point of the design is that connecting a source costs no storage. A cache that grows invisibly would quietly undo that.
What is actually played
Nothing is re-encoded. FLAC, ALAC, AAC, MP3, WAV and AIFF, played as they are.
The details that make a library pleasant rather than merely functional:
- Gapless across an album, so a live record stays one performance instead of gaining a gap between tracks
- ReplayGain, so tracks pulled from different sources sit at the same loudness
- A ten-band equalizer
- Format, bit depth and sample rate stay on screen — a 24/96 FLAC says 24/96, so you can tell what you are actually hearing
Four kinds of source
A folder on this device (including USB or SD) · a cloud drive through Files · a network share at home over WebDAV · straight from your computer over the same Wi-Fi with a browser and no cable.