SubStreamer 4+

Great app, a few small things I’d like to see eventually

This is a great app, in a space where it doesn’t seem like there are many that are frequently updated. The interface is slick and the configuration was intuitive to get it going.

A few potential areas of improvement:
1. In every other music player in the world, the back button goes to the beginning of the track - unless you’re already there in which case it does go back a track. This doesn’t do that, so I have to go back and then forward if I want to restart a song. And if I’m on the first track of a playlist, it doesn’t work at all.
2. I’d be great technical playback details. Is it playing a FLAC file? Is it an MP3? AAC? Plexamp has this and I really appreciate seeing it.
3. There’s no way to clear the queue. Just replace it. This has the effect of the iOS “playback controls” always being on my Lock Screen no matter what until I kill the app manually.

Overall though, a great start and I hope to see continued development. Would be even better if it were open sourced :)

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the review and for trying substreamer. Great feedback, that is really helpful! The skip backwards thing I have in my todo list. For the technical details I can show the format but I can't get specific bitrates and more technical details that easily with the current implementation. If you have a look in the offline music section you will see that I have already started to include the format information here :)
Interesting point on the playback controls, I will have a look at a way to clear the play queue and kill the media session. the lockscreen controls will time out on their own after a fairly short idle period but this is not a crazy suggestion!
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Amazing UI With No Functionality

So I went through all the apps that had Subsonic streaming capability. And THIS is the one I wanted to use the most because the UI looks amazing and better than any other. It’s very organized and had some neat customizations. I think it’s far and wide the best interface. The drawback? It doesn’t work. It synced with Astiga. It sees everything flawlessly it just doesn’t play music. I adjusted all the settings. I cleared the cache. I redownloaded. It simply won’t play music for me. And unfortunately no matter how pretty your app is, if it can’t play music, you’re in trouble. Astiga shows that the app attempted to play just no music and the progress bar never moves. But man if the developer can put some love on this and make it function…this is the one. I put two stars on it just for the sake of hope.

Good App, Needs Work

I’ve been going back and forth between ampache clients for my phone, and all of them are pretty good but most have a fatal flaw (like play:sub randomly starting songs over and not downloading songs right). I love this one, but there’s still issues.
1: Albums with 2 discs show up as 2 seperate albums, but both have all the songs from each disc. It is annoying to have 2 of one album appear.
2: Pull artist images from the server, sometimes the app’s built in artist image search gets the wrong image.
3: Fix downloads, it’s possible to download when the app is not focused.