JPLAY 4+

The best UPnP app there is

This app is a far cry from the other UPnP apps. Even Bubble UPnP seems crude and simple compared to JPLAY’s slick interface and rich feature set. I’m a long-time Roon user but lately prefer the purity of sound that UPnP brings. The only thing that held me back was the app. Now, that is no longer a consideration.

If you like the Roon interface but would rather use UPnP, or if you only stream from Qobuz or Tidal, JPLAY is the answer. This app offers it all, complete with unified views of all libraries, be they local or in the cloud.

The app is super responsive, thanks to local meta data caching on the tablet. So no more waiting for the screen to populate as the app needs to retrieve data from the server as you browse folder levels.

JPLAY offers a large chunk of the features previously only available in Roon such as an instant overview of the number of albums, tracks, artists, composers, and playlists, Recently Played Tracks, Recently Added, History, Associated Artists, Recommendations, Album versions, Focus (filtering), Radio (automatic continued play at queue end based on what was played before), Search by a large range of metadata fields and narrowing down within the search results, Support for and unified view of multiple libraries with easy filtering.

It was mentioned in another review that the app crashes, but over the course of several months of use, this has never happened to me.

That said, UPnP is not always as easy to use or as stable as Roon, especially if you have multiple endpoints and like to swap between them a lot. The small issues I’ve seen such as “library not available” or “player not found” are common to UPnP and also happen with other UPnP apps but can always be fixed by re-searching for devices, or if that fails, by restarting the server/player. These small issues aside, JPLAY is consistently more stable than other UPnP apps. I’ve done duration tests and found that the app will continue playing for days on end with no issues whatsoever, even while the tablet is locked or used for other activities.

So, is the app perfect? No, but neither is Roon, or any other app, for that matter. I’m counting on the maker to address the few remaining inconsistencies in a next update and continue improving the app.

Doesn’t work with NAD C658

Jplay ‘sees’ my NAD C658, but I can’t seem to get any sound out of this app through the NAD. Probably because NAD doesn’t support DLNA/UPNP. Too bad…

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Simply the best UPnP app there is!

This app is a far cry from the other UPnP apps. Even Bubble UPnP seems crude and simple compared to JPLAY’s slick interface and rich feature set. I’m a long-time Roon user but lately prefer the purity of sound that UPnP brings. The only thing that held me back was the app. Now, that is no longer a consideration.

If you like the Roon interface but would rather use UPnP, or if you only stream from Qobuz or Tidal, JPLAY is the answer. This app offers it all, complete with unified views of all libraries, be they local or in the cloud.

The app is super responsive, thanks to local meta data caching on the tablet. So no more waiting for the screen to populate as the app needs to retrieve data from the server as you browse folder levels.

JPLAY offers a large chunk of the features previously only available in Roon such as an instant overview of the number of albums, tracks, artists, composers, and playlists, Recently Played Tracks, Recently Added, History, Associated Artists, Recommendations, Album versions, Focus (filtering), Radio (automatic continued play at queue end based on what was played before), Search by a large range of metadata fields and narrowing down within the search results, Support for and unified view of multiple libraries with easy filtering.

And as a very nice bonus, JPLAY sounds better than alternative UPnP apps.

It was mentioned in another review that the app crashes but over the course of several months of use, this has never happened to me.

That said, UPnP is not always as easy to use or as stable as Roon, especially if you have multiple endpoints and like to swap between them a lot. The small issues I’ve seen such as “library not available” or “player not found” are common to UPnP and also happen with other UPnP apps but can always be fixed by re-searching for devices, or if that fails, by restarting the server/player. These small issues aside, JPLAY is consistently more stable than other UPnP apps. I’ve done duration tests and found that the app will continue playing for days on end with no issues whatsoever, even while the tablet is locked or used for other activities.

So, is the app perfect? No, but neither is Roon, or any other app, for that matter. I’m counting on the maker to address the few remaining inconsistencies in a next update and continue improving the app.