MusicStreamer

Superb music application, voted to network music devices in share music in whatever forms it is (also beautiful with DSD files)

Funziona molto bene e con un hard disk collegato al router si riesce ad avere tutta la propria collezione sempre disponibile ovunque anche fuori casa. Non do 5 stelle perché l’interfaccia è veramente migliorabile e il campo di ricerca da rivedere.

excellent functionalities, maybe not a super intuitive, and a bit old looking, ui

L'app funziona bene sul mio iPad Air 2. Riconosce senza problemi i PC Windows 10 e legge tutti i file audio a eccezione dei vorbis e wavpack, tuttavia esistono una serie di criticità legate alla corretta lettura dei tag. Infatti, per tutti i file che sono stati convertiti usando Foobar2000, non viene riconosciuto correttamente il numero della traccia, il che porta inevitabilmente a un casuale ordinamento dei brani. Alcuni flac ad alta risoluzione vengono poi riprodotti "a scatti" quando il dispositivo è in standby, e inoltre la riproduzione di tutti gli opus è sempre inspiegabilmente rallentata. Riguardo l'interfaccia, la visualizzazione della raccolta per cartelle non è male, ma perché non affiancarne una seconda possibile in stile iTunes (o comunque per album)? E inserire anche la possibilità di leggere da più cartelle e/o sorgenti diverse?

Facile da usare leggera, veloce si connette facilmente al mio disco di rete, un vecchio WD. Legge qualsisi formato e trasmette sia in wifi che in bt.

The positive aspect of this app is the easy way to connect to external sources. I would like to have different data bases(like music,classical,jazz) to simpllify the search of cd, and a feature to order by date to access new inserted music. I also don't know how to insert new directories without rescanning the complete DB.

I struggled with this when I first downloaded the app last year. I mean seriously struggled the help files are not all that helpful and now I’ve upgraded my phone and have to go through it all again. I’ve sat here over an hour creating music sources but can’t connect to any of them. It’s just too complicated.

SSIA

Most of the things I want to listen to on my iPhone, especially in playlists, are tracks I recorded myself. They don't have cover art, and they have lonnnng file names that start the same. For example, "My friend's concert recorded at home on May 4th part 1.flac" and "My friend's concert recorded at home on May 4th part 2.flac". The detailed information about each track is important, and really can't be omitted. FileBrowser Pro, which I adore, handles long file names by rapidly scrolling them side to side so you can see the end of the file name. But it doesn't let you create play lists or have an equalizer. Clearly sound fidelity is important to me, or I wouldn't be recording the tracks in lossless FLAC. I was very excited when I read that Stratospherix also makes a music app. However, MusicStreamer has unmoving file names and no portrait mode, so there's no way to tell them apart on a small iPhone screen. There are also no indicators in the screen about how they're sorted (by date, filename, etc.) so you just can't tell them apart in the app's UI. My workaround was to create playlists in VLC (I refuse to use iTunes) and one in MusicStreamer, then alter the ones from VLC so they'll play in MusicStreamer. But you'd better make sure that all of the tracks are in the order you want, because if you need to change them in MusicStreamer, you're back to the problem of not being able to tell which one's which in the UI. It's madness. Another big downside... the user guides were clearly written by the marketing department, and contain very little step by step info, and only for functions that are intuitively obvious anyway. If you want to use it in a way that most people don't, you'll get to figure it out for yourself. Or you can go to the user community on X (formerly Twitter, no thanks, I left that platform when it started undergoing its radical transformation). I'll probably keep using it because FileBrowser Pro is absolutely perfect, except for the lack of playlists and real audio file handling. MusicStreamer integrates with it beautifully. Or, I may give up and go back to using VLC. The only reason I stopped using VLC in the first place is because in the iOS version, connecting to Windows vs. Linux network shares is complicated and a matter of trial and error. With almost 27,000 audio tracks, there's no way I'm downloading them all to my iPhone. Setting up FileBrowser Pro and MusicStreamer network share connections is super quick and easy. Better y

I'm using MusicStreamer to play music (flac) being streamed from a Raspberry pi using Samba. Connecting was simple and the app GUI is really nice.