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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

4.46 out of 5

328 ratings in United States

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244
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Reviews

Love this app except…

Brandon777 on

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

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

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

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

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

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

Difficult unintuitive

overdubn on

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

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

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?)

Great app for Navidrome

ryan90v on

Great app for streaming from Navidrome. The UI can be a bit clunky at times, like the context menu, but that’s more of a nitpick. There are a few features I’d like it to have, like more robust integration with Siri and iOS music playback (if left paused in the background, will need to go back to app to start playing again. Doesn’t happen with 3rd party podcasts app), being able to add multiple songs to a playlist at once, being able to search for albums from the Albums view, etc. Not as slick as the Music app, but a great alternative nonetheless. Regardless, it’s a great app for streaming/downloading from a Navidrome server.

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App Info

Category
Music
Publisher
Michael Hansen
Languages
German, English, Turkish, Danish, Chinese, French, Dutch
Recent version
2024.1 (2 months ago )
Released on
Mar 26, 2015 (9 years ago )
Last updated
2 weeks ago