Samba Network Music Player

3Cats Software

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About this app

Listen to your network stored music collection as if it was all on your phone!
Enjoy music right away, no complicated setup required. Samba Player works with shared folders from Windows, Linux, Mac, home routers, media players, network drives (NAS) or any network device that can share folders.
- works over WiFi, Ethernet or even in Hotspot mode.
- can also play files from the device's memory or external sdcard
- music formats: MP3, MP4 audio (m4a), Ogg Vorbis (ogg) and FLAC
- save passwords and quick jump to shares using Bookmarks
- smart streaming lets you enjoy your music better on slow networks
- download the playlist with one click and listen to it on the go!
- edit, shuffle and repeat your playlist
- supports Bluetooth, AVRCP metadata, album art and media controls on accessories, car stereos, Android Auto and Android Wear

Samba Player is still undergoing development, please email the developer for any issues! 3Cats want you to be a happy listener!

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Ratings and reviews

This does exactly what I'm looking for, which is allow me to play music / podcasts that are already on my windows computer. The sleep timer works well, allowing me to play music for an hour while I fall asleep. My only minor issues are missing skip forward/backward by 10 or 30 second buttons (seek bar works but inaccurate for long podcasts), and that files are sorted by name only (date sort missing). A way of importing/exporting playlists would be nice as well.

First impression is it's decent enough. It does what I got it for, which is to play from my library from smb NAS shares over the vpn while I'm away. One gripe I noticed is that when I play a folder, it doesn't seem to add/play music from any subfolders. I would def want to see that fixed.

I like the very easy access this gives to SMB music shares. I love the way this is folder based. The only thing missing from this app is buttons to jump back 10 seconds or jump ahead 10 seconds while playing a track. I hate scrubbing the seek bar to try to cue to the middle of a track. Please add a button to jump ahead or back 10 seconds while track is playing (long press seek button maybe?). Podcast apps can do this. I wish this app could.

What's new

2.7
- Use Samba Player in your car with Android Auto!
2.6
- Use Samba Player on your Android TV!
2.5
- Sleep Timer!
- Go to bed listening to music that automatically stops when the timer is up!
- Or even better, when the timer is up and the current song ends!
2.4
- Multiple Playlists support!
- Playlists are saved automatically. Recall them, rename them, delete them!
2.3
- You can now add all Music in selected Folders recursively!
- To select a Folder, Long-Tap on it!