play:Sub Music Streamer 4+

Delightful Subsonic Client

Michael Hansen

Designed for iPad

    • 4.5 • 323 Ratings
    • $4.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Delightful Subsonic Client

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)

What’s New

Version 2023.2

Dutch translation.
Fixed repeat issue.
Fixed radio list issue.

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5
323 Ratings

323 Ratings

45.rpm ,

Love the app, but...

Been using Play:Sub forever. I love the app, but I think the most recent update messed something up. In Folder view, whenever I click on an album, it doesn’t always load the list of songs. I have to click the back arrow to go back to the list of artists and click the artist again to go back to their albums only to list the next albums songs. I have to go through this whole process just to see the next albums songs. Also, on occasion - some of the albums at the bottom of the list don’t show up. Just blank lines. This happens in both online and offline mode and just started happening this past week. No error dialogs appear. Would love resolution on this because I don’t want to change to iSub.

Developer Response ,

Please try the latest version - this should be fixed now.
If it still doesn't work for you, please get in touch so we can figure out what's up.
Thanks.

Theno1patrick ,

Love this, but one feature suggestion

I use this with my booksonic server connected to unraid and it works beautifully. However, there’s 1 feature I would love to see you implement (btw, I’ve downloaded every subsonic music/audiobook player and none have it) is being able to play back at faster speeds. I have some audiobooks which are great, but the narrator speaks at terribly slow pace. Hopefully you can implement this feature relatively easily and soon! Otherwise, love the app and features!

-update: and this was improved! We have faster playback, integration into every Bluetooth/wireless device I have. I’ve deleted all my other apps and use this one exclusively. Works with my audiobooks, podcasts and on a separate server I’ve linked my music. Overall, this is a total win!

Developer Response ,

Hi,

Variable playback speed will be part of the next version.

Cheers,
Michael.

G.R.W. ,

Excellent app - perfect gapless playback

Most important: gapless playback works flawlessly. If (like for me) this is a critical requirement for you, then this program is what you need. No microgaps, just seamless playback from track to track.

The program has very nice features for server connections including letting you choose to accept self-signed certificates and letting you use a server with http Basic Auth. It's easy to configure multiple servers and switch between them. Clearly the developers have put a lot of thought into makeing the app as widely useful as possible. Oh, and it works well with Apple Car Play taboot.

The user interface seems great to me. I do wish that after briging up the list of genres, selecting a genre brought up a list of album-artists rather than albums, but that's just a small quibble.

I'm connecting to navidrome servers, and I've noticed some problem with flakey behavior when first visiting a new server, but it was not reproducible and never appeared after the first visit. Perhaps the problem was at my end.

Overall my experience with the app is off-scale good. The perfect way to access my home music collection when on the road.

App Privacy

The developer, Michael Hansen, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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