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!
Check out https://reddit.com/r/substreamer if you want to stay up to date or make suggestion or report any issues, then they get shared with other users as well.

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.

Fix plz! Review will go from a 1 star to almost a 5 with these fixed

The Substreamer app is a WONDERFUL app and it provides a fantastic service but some bugs make it impossibly frustrating to use!

1. This isn’t too huge of a problem because it’s not that bad I’ll still point it out this app takes entirely too long to load especially if after a few minutes or I open too many other apps or sometimes if I get a phone call the app will kick forcing me to reload the app a search for whatever it was. This can occur several times within my short 17 min commute to and from work.

2. I am not totally sure if the bug that’s at hand but when a content provider uploads say, an album when you access that album you’ll see double postings of each song. It’s only when you enable view offline that this problem is fixed.

3. Whatever is the root cause of the previous issue brings forth another bug. Sometimes when browsing the album I’ll select at track and the track just will not play, the app will know the song is selected and the monitor in my vehicle will even display the song. Occasionally if I choose the duplicate track the song will start but in far many instances I’m still with silence.

Developer Response ,

Hi please give the new version a try, you should not see these issues any more.