SharePlay

Ben Damer

About this app

Media player to connect to DAAP shares on the local network. The app supports a number of Open Source DAAP servers, such as Rhythmbox, Tangerine, and Firefly.

Other supported features include:
- Download songs from shares to your phone
- Automatic discovery of network shares
- Access password-protected shares
- Library caching
- Audioscrobbler support using an intalled scrobbler app
- Shuffle / Repeat play modes
- Playlists

Ratings and reviews

I use a Firefly server on a NAS and have been searching for a good DAAP client. Shareplay works well and I particularly like how it caches the song catalogue for speedy access, but it doesn't seem to handle smart playlists consistently. Sometimes the playlist is truncated, other times it's empty when I know there is content, e.g. recently added. If this was fixed it would rate five stars as it would do everything I need.

I use this app to stream music from my home when I'm at work or on the move, unlike other DAAP apps this one doesn't randomly stop playing and runs really well. Developer is also very helpful when there was a problem with the previous version.

This is the best working DAAP client I have found for Android so far. It works well, doesn't crash and responds quickly when switching songs. I do miss controls on the notification screen or lock screen, and album art display.

What's new

- Multiple fixes to catalog update mechanism

- Added support for OGG format
- Removed limit on size of library
- Updated user interface
- Added fix to prevent database from locking up.
- Error when downloading from Firefly server
- Error when playing songs from Firefly server with unsupported tags
- Fixed loading of auto-generated playlists.