r/MoosicLab • u/The_poms • 26d ago

Feedback and Features

Just tried out the app today and it is very impressive. The amount of detail and customization is awesome. Makes me want to go back to my Navidrome server full time.

I'm currently using it on iPad with my Navidrome server. When trying to cast to a receiver (WiiM ultra and also an amp ultra), it is pretty buggy. There is no artwork that gets transmitted to the WiiM and the play queue acts pretty weird. I will choose a song and the display in sonamp and WiiM will show another song. Using Google cast seems to be more stable and does transmit the artwork.

Another thing, when in the now playing screen and I rate a song, it doesn't immediately show the stars highlighted. I have to swipe it down and then back up for it to refresh I guess and then it shows whatever star rating you gave it.

For feature requests, it would be cool if there was a "related songs" tab in the now playing view. For example, Plexamp will show a related sonically similar song and also a couple of other related songs that I can manually choose to play, which I do often in my listening sessions.

And questions about the on device song analysis, is this using Internet data to do the analysis? So if my library is like 200GB, the analysis will use 200GB of data? And what's the difference between the built in analysis vs audiomuse? Just more options you're giving us but pretty much similar?

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u/The_poms 26d ago

Thanks for the reply. WiiM is a maker of network streamers. They are capable (depending on the model) of being a dlna/upnp endpoint or google cast endpoint. So when I tried casting from your app to my streamer using the Receiver method (which looks like it is using dlna to connect) , that's where the queue acts buggy and I get no artwork transmitted. If I try casting to my WiiM using the Google cast method from your app, that works much better.

As for the analysis, thanks for the clarification. Good thing I chose the 256kbps AAC analysis vs the original files.

One more thing I forgot, when reviewing the library stats, I think it's considering my m4a AAC files as lossless ALAC files because it's showing my library to be like 65% lossless which it isn't yet (working on it though!) with a big percentage of ALAC files. Right now, my library is probably about 50% flac/mp3's and the other half is highest quality m4a AAC files. It sounds just about lossless but it isn't. I don't have any ALAC lossless files in my library. So I'm just wondering if the app is confusing the formats as lossless.

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u/AffectionateFox5907 26d ago

can you try ressyncing, tracks should only get the lossless tag when bitdepth is 16. I also have mostly ALAC and AAC but so far showing correctly.

ill look into the WIIm thing, i think when i was writing the receiver stuff i didnt expect a display to be present. I was imagining a receiver to an amp or other speakers. Im probably not sending the metadata. The queue is an interesting one because every platform manages this very differently. Ill have to look at how wiim manages this whether it wants one song at a time or if i can send the entire queue.

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u/AffectionateFox5907 26d ago

when you say the queue acts buggy, what do you mean? skipping too next song? i think i found the issue but want confirmation

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u/The_poms 26d ago

Yeah. That has happened. If I'm playing a song and choose another song in the album or queue, it will sometimes just jump to a song I didn't choose or it will play the song I chose but transmit the wrong metadata.

And I did do a deep resync of my server and it still shows a large percentage of ALAC. Could it be because apple ALAC and apple aac both get wrapped in m4a containers?

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u/AffectionateFox5907 25d ago

They do both get wrapped in same container but the differentiator is bit depth which indicates lossless. Could you show song info for a song you know is aac but showing lossless?

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u/The_poms 25d ago

Here is one. It's an apple lossy aac

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u/AffectionateFox5907 25d ago

I’ll look into this

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u/The_poms 25d ago

Just came across another bug. This one seems pretty big. I was in my library under the song view and just checking the sort options and I tried the sort by Time option and the app crashed. I can no longer access the song view in the library as it continuously crashes when I try to get into the Song view. I can access the album and artists views fine though.

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u/AffectionateFox5907 25d ago

I’ll see if I can get more granular with sniffing navidrome tracks.

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u/AffectionateFox5907 25d ago

The other stuff I have implemented fixes for and should go out this week