play:Sub Music Streamer

Delightful Subsonic Client

Published by: Michael Hansen
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Description

Stream your Subsonic-server-hosted music to your iOS or CarPlay device, Chromecast device or Subsonic Jukebox.
Enjoy your music everywhere, anytime, in the quality you decide!
play:Sub supports playback of most audio formats like FLAC, MP3, AAC and more.
Lossless and gapless playback is supported, as well as crossfading between tracks.
Use the 10-band fully customizable equalizer to get the right sound.
The equalizer has presets for common genres and scenarios.
Apply crossfade and replay-gain for the perfect listening experience.
Browse your music your way, be it by folder, artist, album, decade.
Control playback using gestures, buttons or remote controlled from you headset.
Play on anything: builtin speaker, headphones, Bluetooth connected headphones/amp/speaker/car-stereo or AirPlay devices.
play:Sub streams your music over any connection, and caches songs for when connectivity is bad.
Played songs are cached automatically, and you can manually cache individual songs or entire folders, artists or albums.
SERVER SUPPORT
• Subsonic, AirSonic, Ampache, Madsonic, Funkwhale, Libresonic, Navidrome
• Supports multiple servers and easy switching between them
• Any Subsonic 4.8+ compatible server should work
• You may need to enable Subsonic API on some server types
USER INTERFACE
• Dark and light UI themes
• All orientations, incl. iPad multitasking support
AUDIO
• FLAC, AAC, ALAC, MP3, MP4, OGG, WAV, AIFF, WEBM and more
• Plays most audio formats without transcoding
• Lossless playback (wo transcoding)
• Gapless playback
• 10-band equalizer
• Crossfade
• Replay Gain
• HI-rez digital up to 24bit/192kHz
• Variable playback speed (0.5-2x)
PLAY ON
• Any iOS device
• CarPlay
• Chromecast
• Jukebox
DISCOVERY
• Artist radio.
• Artist top songs
• Similar artists
• Be inspired by random artist, album or songs
• Play random songs in a genre
BROWSE YOUR MUSIC ANY WAY YOU LIKE IT
• Artists, Albums, Songs
• Folders
• Playlists, Favorites, Genres
• Podcasts, Audiobooks, Bookmarks
• Decades
• Filter by Subsonic mediafolder
INTERNET RADIOSTATIONS
• Server configured / shared internet radiostation.
• 20000+ radiostation directory powered by radiobrowser,info
PLAYLISTS
• Create, update and delete playlists
• Personal and shared playlists
• Cache complete playlists to device
• Full playlist support in both online and offline mode
FAVORITES
• Starring of artists, albums, tracks and folders
• Starring works in both online and offline mode
• Items starred when offline is synced at first chance
• Easily filter lists for starred content
GENRES
• View All, Random or Starred albums from a genre
• View Random or Starred songs from a genre
CONTEXT MENU EVERYWHERE
• Long-press any item to show relevant actions
• Easily navigate between associated artist, album, tracks and folders
• Add tracks, albums, artists or folders to playlists
• Swipe-to-reveal shortcuts
CACHING
• Automatic caching of played tracks, pre-cache upcoming tracks
• Manually cache selected folders, artists, albums or tracks
• Upgrade cached audio to better bitrate when available
SEAMLESS OFFLINE MODE
• Play cached music when connectivity is bad
• Show only cached content
• Same user interface in online and offline mode
INTEGRATION
• AirPlay, Bluetooth, remote control, lock screen & control center integration
• Support iOS’ sleep timer
• Resumes music after being interrupted by phone calls
• Background downloads
CONNECTION
• SSL, self-signed certificates
• Secure authentication for Subsonic 5.3+ servers
• cellular/wifi dependent bitrate; override settings for slow/fast WiFi networks
SCROBBLING
• Scrobbles to last.fm if configured on the server
• Updates Now Playing on the server
• Updates server-playcounts when playing cached content
• Music played while offline is scrobbled when online again
NOTE: a licensed installation of Subsonic 4.8+ is required.
Some features need a higher server version (Top Songs, Artist Radio, Similar Artists, Last.fm Imagery, Album Info)
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User Rating

4.22 out of 5

9 ratings in Belgium

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R Mellmer on

United States

I had high hopes for this app. But there’s a serious playback issue where the player rapidly cycles between shuffle, repeat, and repeat all. Almost like the buttons are pressing themselves over and over again. This results in songs repeating themselves or shuffling when not desired. Renders the app basically unusable.

Love this app except…

Brandon777 on

United States

This app is so well thought out and customizable exactly to my liking… except when I get out of a CarPlay vehicle, it stops and then resumes on my phone on speakerphone… I never ever want to hear music in this way. AppleTV support would be awesome too

nice app. wish it worked with watch

ppoohh79 on

United States

app is nice, good navidrome frontend. main issue is id like it to stream to my watch app over cell network, untethered to my phone. so i can workout without carrying my phone with me. also think it needs some work with downloads / caching. sometimes my albums disappear? or get evicted from the cache?

CarPlay broken?

hiwattfan on

United States

I’ve used play:sub for several years as stand alone and for its CarPlay abilities and it has proven awesome and reliable. Since recent app/iOS updates CarPlay seems to be broken. I can see artist lists but no files to play. Very frustrating. The app is useless for my needs without full CarPlay support. I’m running ios17 and the latest play:sub version with Navadrome server.

Best player for iOS

idielots on

United States

I’ve tried the other players and this one is definitely the best. I’m knocking a star because it does not work with CarPlay. It will not sure my albums or songs, which means I have to use my phone while I’m driving, which entirely defeats the purpose

Love the app

AustinGa on

United States

Love the app it’s better than all the other iOS clients out there. Worth the money. But I want to make a feature request can you please allow us to cache all songs on the server with a single click of a button? Makes it easier to download all the songs for offline listening if your going on a flight etc thanks

No Car Play

overdubn on

United States

worked with CarPlay for three days, but no longer works with CarPlay works fine on my iPhone.

Difficult unintuitive

overdubn on

United States

very unintuitive and difficult to use. Does not have “Recently Played“ category. Very difficult to select an album as a start album. The categories are not logical. Needs to be redesigned.

This $5 app is worse than free open source Amperfy

Disappointedd3466 on

United States

Insane that the latest release note says it finally supports repeat-1 in 2023. I just bought couple days ago. So I got that. But even the basic local download doesn’t work! It shows all files in the album got downloaded but if I switch to offline mode it shows only 1. Reached out to the dev on day 1 of the purchase and never heard back! My Amerfy is working perfectly but I was thinking paying money will get me something better. I guess not.

No “show all songs” option

Mandrake158 on

United States

The app is the best for navidrome/subsonic out there.. but it doesn’t have a show all songs options, just random/favorites/recent Would be good to have an option to just show everything I have Edit: can you add support for non western alphabets? Like on the right side, songs in any other alphabet other than Latin appears as 2 Ä ó or whatever, instead of the right letter Just so it recognises the first letter of the song and put them on the list, so that way it shows regardless of the alphabet at the end of the Latin one (like plexamp does?)

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