substreamer - Subsonic Client

Gaven Henry

About this app

substreamer is a completely free app to use with subsonic compatible music servers (subsonic, airsonic, navidrome, ampache etc). Your music when you want it, where you want it, online or offline.

Easily see newly added, recently played and most played albums or just grab a list of random albums or songs for something different.

Like that song? Play similar songs with a tap!

Discover new songs and old favorites by genre and time period with SubStreamer radio. Pick your filters and get a random generated playlist, just like radio without the ads!

Got a song stuck in your head? Sure that you have it on an album somewhere but just can't remember where? Just search!

Connect your subsonic server with your last.fm account and Substreamer can also tap into last.fm to give you more information about artists, songs and albums in your collection and recommend similar artists, similar songs or give you a list of the top rated songs in your own collection for you to explore.

Build up a play queue of your favorite rock songs and just hit save as playlist to have it stored on the server for later.

Of course you can also just hit your favorite album and press play.

Oh and if Music isn't enough we also support podcasts that you have synced with your subsonic server both online and offline!

Features:
Chromecast Support.

Full offline support. Store albums, songs and playlists and podcasts on your device and listen offline.

Keep your starred songs automatically synced to your device!

Automatic caching of upcoming songs for smooth playback.

Easy playlist management for adding single or multiple tracks to a playlist or starting a new playlist.

Radio mode generates random playlists for your chosen genre or time period (or both!)

Quick lists of random / recently played / frequently played and newest albums right up front.

Search for artists, albums, songs

last.fm integration for fetching artist info, recommendations and playlists based on ratings

last.fm scrobbling

Airplay support (just open the volume controls in the player to access airplay directly or use the control center by swiping up from the bottom of the screen)

if you run into any bugs please let me know, i use this app every day myself and am always trying to make it better! [e-mail]

Requirements:

Subsonic API compatible server (API level 1.13.0) or equivalent.

Note that for SSL support you must have a valid certificate. Invalid certificates will cause connection errors.

Get Subsonic server at: http://www.subsonic.org
Substreamer: http://substreamerapp.com

*Please note all the music, images and names in the screenshots are free, and courtesy of Jamendo (jamendo.com) and the respective artists and provided for the subsonic demo server at http://demo.subsonic.org

Ratings and reviews

Very usable streaming app with plenty of features. I like that I can create and update playlists from the app. I appreciate the management of offline resources and the ability to clear space from the app itself. Problems: No gapless streaming. The 3-dot buttons everywhere are too small. Album art sometimes disappears. I can't always remove a song from a playlist. Sometimes music is playing, but the play-progress-bar is frozen. I have to refresh playlists from playlist menu and inside playlist.

The new update is great. I love the radio options off of artists and songs. Very Sweet. My only gripe is that I like to keep tabs of my music on my phone and the folders its in. I like to use airsonic to download music to my phone and don't have to rely on an internet connection to have music always on my phone. Then listen to that music and the stats go back to airsonic. There is no option as to which folder the music gets downloaded to or to tell if a song is available locally on the phone. Also I can't find a way to download all starred songs. I really appreciate the hard work.

Suspends after a little while when nothing is playing and becomes unresponsive to the controls in the notification box and on the lock screen. The app needs to be restarted, which is pretty annoying. The notification bubble also persists after the app is closed (but is still running in the background) - the app needs to be force closed through the Android app settings to remove it Music playback works fine

What's new

Fix: Android vesions under 10 incorrectly prompting for storage access on start, causing failures on some devices.
New: Offline scrobbling. Play history is now saved when offline and pushed to the server when access is restored and offline mode disabled in the app.