KEF Stream

GP Acoustics International Ltd

About this app

This app allows you to play music content up to 192kHz/24bit resolution over Wi-Fi to your LS50 Wireless and LSX. Together with the KEF Control app, you can have full control over your speaker system.

Key features:
• Stream music from your local Library, Media Servers, TIDAL, and Spotify Connect.
• Create and save custom playlists

Note: to play Apple Music purchased from iTunes store (this excludes Apple Music Streaming Service) and your own music collection imported to your iTunes Library, you must first download it offline to your device before you can stream it to the LS50 Wireless.

If you experience any issues with the app, please use the Send Feedback option in Settings > About with a short description of the issue you are encountering.

Ratings and reviews

Trying to use tidal through this app is an utter nightmare. You basically need to babysit your phone and manually initiate each song one by one. Playing an album is nearly impossible as there's about a 25% chance that the next track will play, and if it does, it adds about 20 seconds of silence between tracks.

Update 10/15: Spotify update stopped connecting with the speakers. Now they are an expensive glorious looking boxes that don't play music! Layout and navigation not on par with other music library apps. Need to make tidal, Spotify library management more intuitive and straight forward. Need basic features like song loop, random and more robust connectivity

After all these years KEF Stream is still a mess. There are simply too many bugs to mention. The *only* reason I still have my LS50W's is because I can stream 3rd party music apps using my Chromecast Audio (via optical input) otherwise I'd have sold these speakers years ago. KEF Stream is absolutely infuriating to use. I would never have bought the speakers in the first place if I had the foresight to first check the app reviews. And iOS is just as bad. Read other reviews to confirm my findings.

What’s new

- Added Smart Assistance support for EU, UK, US region
- Various improvements, bug and crash fixes