ServeStream

- September 2, 2016

Everyone

Music & Audio

Offers in-app purchases

( 3,239)

Description

Open source HTTP streaming media player and media server browser. Supports custom, online radio and SHOUTcast streams.

Please rate this application to support continued development!

Features:
- Supports the following media formats:
Protocols: http, https, mms, mmsh, file
Audio: mp3, 3gp, mp4, m4a, ogg, wav, mid, xmf, mxmf, rtttl, rtx, ota, imy, and more...
Playlists: m3u, pls, asx, m3u8, xspf
- Supports multitasking/playing audio in the background
- Repeat and shuffle modes
- Alarm clock support
- Home screen widget
- Shortcut support
- Utilizes HTML parsing to allow navigation of HTTP media servers that serve HTML pages

If you are unable to open supported file extension please post/email the target URL I will do my best to fix the problem.

If you have a feature request, usability issue, or encounter a bug please report them here: https://github.com/wseemann/ServeStream

keywords: gnump3d, music, http, stream, pls, m3u, shoutcast, mpd, streamfurious, XiiaLive, FFmpeg, mms, online radio, open source

Reviews

4.4

3,239 total

5 2,107

4 635

3 207

2 98

1 190

Danny G

Perfect! Best app! The Dark theme missing after update. I use it every day, hope to see this option in next version. Thanks.

Neal Card

Very useful Small app that focuses on doing one thing well.

Dimas Irawan

Light, easy to use...

New & Improved ServeStream will now accept and display a user entered nickname properly, so I can find what I'm looking for in a huge list of cryptic url's. This app runs flawlessly, has a great EQ & sound settings, (accessible only during live streaming from settings menu) acquires and broadcasts streams quickly and effectively. (Some stream providers have coded somewhat longer buffering times, don't blame the app) It's a fantastic product all around. Thanks William!

priyadarshee kumar

Good but not real time Not real time.. lag few seconds behind...

ServeStream Does the job. I'm using it to play MP3 tracks via playlist files.

User reviews

Danny G September 6, 2016

Perfect! Best app! The Dark theme missing after update. I use it every day, hope to see this option in next version. Thanks.

Neal Card September 11, 2016

Very useful Small app that focuses on doing one thing well.

Dimas Irawan September 10, 2016

Light, easy to use...

August 28, 2016

priyadarshee kumar September 2, 2016

Good but not real time Not real time.. lag few seconds behind...

September 1, 2016

ServeStream Does the job. I'm using it to play MP3 tracks via playlist files.

August 29, 2016

Just perfect Has always worked , simple layout, uncluttered

Dilip Jaiswal August 28, 2016

Awesome Does exactly what it says.. easy GUI.. Good work..

Wojtek Wójcik August 26, 2016

Dark theme missing after update Love the app, must be the best and simplest streaming client for Android out there. However, after updating to 0.7.1 I no longer see the option to switch to the dark theme. Any help?

William Seemann August 26, 2016

Wojtek, the theme option was hidden in the latest release because it was causing some issues that conflicted when updating the app to work with API 23. I'm hoping to fix this in future.

Peter Paul Mary August 26, 2016

Older version is better It is the best http streaming app! Found that some streams can only with older version. The dark theme is better than the light theme. Just switched to the fDroid version. Happy!

William Seemann August 26, 2016

The theme option was hidden in the latest release because it was causing some issues that conflicted when updating the app to work with API 23. I'm hoping to fix this in future.

Catachrest W July 16, 2015

Simple and clean Exactly what I was looking for: a simple and clean app to play streaming music/radio channels of my own choice. I've encountered some bugs, mostly with the display of metadata (which is marked experimental) but I'm not complaining, and I'm sure these will improve with time. Best: No ads! Yay! Once kinks are worked out, I would pay for this app.

Noah Davis September 27, 2015

I have a "directory" of radio stations that I've compiled for myself that stream over the internet (both terrestrial and internet only). This app not only plays them well, but it's accessible to the blind (for the most part). Some buttons are unlabeled (I've figured out which ones are repeat and shuffle, I still don't think I know what some are). Also the sleep timer is half-way accessible, when I was using the slider to select the minutes it wouldn't read the amount of time I selected (might be the fault of the screen reader though, I'm using the Mobile Accessibility screen reader from Code Factory). Other than that, this is a very nice app, and I recommend it to anyone who frequently plays streams in external players!

Berko McSnuggers November 22, 2015

Great app This is definitely the best app among its peers; its simplicity makes it very easy to use without too many resources. But last time I checked, the app crashed whenever I select multiple entries, and if you change any information on saved stations, the changes don't save,

MarsRover April 16, 2016

Great app, but not without flaws: 1. Can't change nickname after adding an item to URLs 2. Needs "Stop" button (it exists in the menu), only "Pause" button is available now. 3. Play/Pause/Stop behavior when using BT headset buttons to control playback of streaming content. It would be great to have an option in settings to actually STOP streaming from a headset, not pause. Pause doesn't work properly anyways. 4. The app doesn't tolerate switching data providers (e.g. Wi-Fi to mobile data and back). Have to kill the process to restore playback.

Warren L February 17, 2015

Good. This is a nice app. So far, the only things I can find wrong are there's no text labels on some buttons, making it a little trickier for TalkBack users And one of the URLs I tried to load didn't play. But other than that, good app. Most URLs work and besides some unlabeled buttons, the app is accessible.

David Hoyt September 27, 2014

Simple, useful, a little quirky Works great. Does one thing, and does it pretty well. Doesn't seem to exit correctly though -- controls remain on the lock screen after I quit the app (S5). Despite this, it's good enough that I use it regularly.

Mark Steinmetz September 5, 2015

Simply The Best! Best Streamer I found. After trying TuneIn and crashing so many times, I found this app. Used an existing playlist (.m3u), it fired right up without any hesitation and played a list of radio stations within the file. What a great app to stream online radio stations.

September 29, 2014

Fantastic For Online Radio! This app pretty much blows all of the others out of the water. It's very simple and contains no clutter, focusing instead on getting you the content you want, quickly and easily. Handy alarm clock and sleep timer are included and it also has handy short cuts which enable you to start your favourite stations with a simple click/swipe from your home screen. I absolutely love it to bits!

Julian Hughes March 4, 2015

Great for all kinds of audio streams including BBC's new HLS output ServeStream is an excellent audio streaming client. I use it for BBC's new HLS encapsulated AAC streams and it plays them fine and I get fewer interruptions than with the BBC's own iPlayer Radio apps. It also works great for playing audio files stored on network shares accessible in a file manager like Explorer/Root Explorer or GhostCommander.

Latiefah Dye October 4, 2014

What happened? The first day I downloaded it it worked fine. I havent opened it for a couple days, now it wont open and url's to my saved files. Please correct this. Im missing out on my favorite situation REAL RADIO MIA. I've got to have it.

Dan Dee March 10, 2015

Bout Time!👍 Now I can listen to my old itunes .pls stations... I just noticed if you make a mistake entering the Url it wont ever change... no matter how many times u edit it. So I simply made a new entry and deleted the old entry...👌

Paul Sarraffe May 13, 2015

Very good -- no annoying ads This is the best internet radio app that I have found for Android, however, the edit function doesn't work. You can't change the URL nickname after it is added. Fix this and I will give it 5 stars.

Philip Chung August 12, 2016

Really great, but room for improvement Changing a URL is a bit inconvenient: The editing fields are empty instead of pre-filled with the current value, and there should be a way to edit the URL as a whole instead of by components. Also, a feature that would be nice is saving history.

GovernAmerica July 13, 2015

Titles for streams Needs the ability to replace the address with a name of the stream. Currently allows you to do this, but fails to display when you go to the screen with your streams. Unless you type it in when you first enter the stream, you will see the address instead of the name. Otherwise, great!

Mohamad Izham Zainal Abidin June 27, 2016

Please do some fixing Edit: Please fix the metadata update mechanism, its kind of inconsistent. And sometimes there's this time where you can't open a link though it was okay a few moments before. Another thing is the link saved somehow with a port assigned while the original input doesn't have any.

Wouter Koch September 11, 2014

Best so far, but not perfect When switching connections (when I get in range of a wifi network for example, but also between mobile data networks) playback stops and has to be manually restarted. Crashes randomly, too. Shame because when it works I do love the app.

scotie scotson November 3, 2014

Finally someone got it right! Have been looking for a player that would add links for audio streaming websites and actually play them. Alot claim to work but this once actually does great app!

March 31, 2015

Almost perfect This is the only player I found that plays my obscure radio stream .pls file except when it doesn't. One day it's fine the next sorry this file is not supported. Pooey

Salome Honey Bunches May 7, 2015

Simple and lightweight Gets the job done when I don't want to use a heavy app for streaming music. Knowing the URLs to playlists makes it really easy to get to my favorites without the many menus of Tunein. It does occasionally lock up but restarting it is easy

Carl Luc Campbell February 8, 2016

Unkillable It's practically impossible to fully close the app without killing the process. Closing it from the multitask view just leads to app coming back on a few seconds later. A shame because besides that it's a useful piece of software.

Kristjan Variksoo November 28, 2014

The only thing that worked! It was the only app that would play the radio station I wanted to play.

Google User November 10, 2014

Perfect for my needs Since Poweramp doesn't support streaming, I was looking for a simple app to supplement it which would do the following: Play streams from URL input--and play them well (VLC and Winamp being choppy on my device). After much searching and trying other apps, this baby is "just what the doctor ordered."

Water Flash June 6, 2016

Uncomplicated and simple Its not that great, but it holds its promises. I won't find a m3u player without useless extras like mp3 player or web radios. Just a simple m3u player

A Google User April 16, 2015

The one! With ffmpeg in the back this is the one delivering when Android itself doesn't. One thing though, the icon is too big and not very good especially when in the notification bar.

Val Davis September 6, 2015

Been looking for a long time I am so glad to have found this Android app to play my web streams. Thank you for doing a great job with a piece of simple software.

Ryan Moran December 25, 2015

Free & Open-source Saving nicknames for streams doesn't work. Other than that, it's a great app. Position saving would also be a nice feature. It didn't seem to do that after closing.

Vitaly Korolev April 12, 2016

Simple and it works This app only has the essentials, but it works fairly well and has no ads. I had to block notification bar because it kept freezing up.

Javier Eduardo May 15, 2016

Excellent app. You can use different streaming sources, if you know the url you can add it easily. Supports many formats (acc, mp3,..) (doesn't supports wma, doesn't matter). You can scrobble to lastfm and librefm. It has many options. You can make a backup of your config. Very complete. Good work. Thanks!

Bryan Heath March 21, 2015

The best mms Android steamer out there, BUT. .. Improvements could be made regarding buffering while streaming over a mobile data connection. Also, having the ability to retrieve text data which is broadcast with the stream would be helpful. Finally, there shoulddefinitely be a stop icon included on the played itself. Unlike other streaming players, this one doesn't stop data when pause is enabled. Fix these guys and you'll get a perfect five!