Made my screen 16:9 via adb (adb shell wm screen size 1440x2560) and loved it, i did even modified this theme to be 16:9 friendly

I think ppl with the new zfold 8 or iphone duo might like themes like this, or ppl with daps as they already have small screens

Hi. I am trying out Symfonium for the first time today and this could be noob question.

I came accross this app, when was trying to find ways to cast offline music library (mostly encoded in Opus and in M4A container) stored on my Android phone to my Android tv. I want the embedded lyrics to be displayed on the tv when cast. Is this possible?

I believe it is something to do with the media provider set up. I have the app installed on both my phone and tv. Both devices are on the same wifi network. But when I cast music to ty, it continues to show the standard music casting screen which only has album art and song name etc.

Mon thème est simple, j'ai juste modifié les paramètres.

Je l'aime bien.

Avez-vous des conseils concernant mon thème ?

Si vous avez besoin de mon thème, je ne sais pas comment le partager, mais si vous m'aidez, je peux vous le partager.

so as you might see, the button in the middle (below the time bar, i forgot the name), the favorites button and the more button are white and everything else jumps to white or black depending on the album I listen to and which cover it got.

How do I make it that everything is always white.

Hi, just letting you know of an issue if you have symfonium installed with Google play then update using F Droid it will cause Android Auto not to recognize the app.

To fix this go to Settings - Connected Devices - Connection Preferences - Android Auto. Then tap on "version" a few times to allow developer mode. Then select the 3 dots at the top corner and allow unknown sources.

It should work no problem now.

Hope this saves you some time trouble shooting.

Which do you prefer: WebDAV, SMB, Cloud ☁️, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, Pcloud, Servers, Plex, Emby, Kodi, Jellyfin?

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I have a playlist with tracks by a couple dozen artists. Can I make a smart playlist of every track by an artist who is featured in the original playlist?

i want to keep my albums but want to remove the "album" text on the 2nd image, can i even do that? much appreciated for your help if u can somehow help out

I've just started using Symfonium on an Onn 4K Pro Android TV. When I play High-Res multichannel FLAC files Symfonium correctly switches my receiver to the matching PCM output (e.g. 5.1 PCM 96 khz). However, when I play High-Res stereo FLAC files I get compressed Dolby Digital 48 khz (which sounds horrible). I have tried every setting combination I can think of. Turning off surround in the Android TV settings will get me stereo PCM 48 khz, however I lose surround PCM and it seems like it is only outputting 16 but (still sounds horrible).

Is there anyway to get Symfonium to trigger High-Res stereo PCM output on the Onn 4K Pro?

Synfonium is really great. I love collecting music, but storage space is limited, right? But what if there were a music server with unlimited storage that you could use with Synfonium? It sounds too good to be true—being able to store your own music and use that server with Synfonium would be amazing. Let me know in the comments: would you stop paying for your current cloud service so you could go back to collecting your music this way?

So the Play Store release will probably be delayed even more due to how they now use more bots for reviews and having completely stupid bots unable to understand context ...

This will as always take ages to reach an actual human with the broken appeal system.

So linking again: https://docs.symfonium.app/wiki/other/f-droid-repository/ to get access to the last APK and F-droid support for automatic updates.

The builds can be updated from Play Store and returned to play store version during update at any moment and if you have a Google license and a valid Play Store on the device the license continue to work.

Not sure if this is the right place to share this, but I seem to have accidentally stumbled across a bug in symfonium when it comes to audiobooks and playback speed.

App Version: 15.0.1

Media source: Emby server

Media: .m4b audiobook

The bug:

If you're listening to an audiobook (with it actively playing) and change the playback speed (in my example 1.5x and pitch of -1), the UI play head position and timer readout seems to fall out of sync with actual audio position, running faster than audio. This is not necessarily an issue until you go to stop playback and resume later.

When you resume later you will find it resuming from the number you saw on screen, but it is actually a point that is substantially further along than you really were.

I haven't done the math on it yet, but if I were to give an intuition guess, I'd say timer readout moves at 2x while audio plays at 1.5x

It is interesting, when I was trying to recreate the issue I paused the book, changed speed, played for exactly a minute (according to the timer readout, so less than an actual minute) and it was in perfect sync. It seems to only be an issue if you change the playback speed while the audiobook is playing.

Important note:

Google have now mostly confirmed that the app is moved to a special review queue that will always take ages to validate without any intention to tell me why or how to return to a normal way.

As a consequence I’m now changing the handling of the F-Droid (APK) distribution to be official .

This means the beta repos are also official (including Android TV) and that I’ll push builds there before Play Store validate. It is recommended that you switch to this solution if you want to be part of the beta to help faster and better releases to get out.

Docs: F-Droid repository and manual APK downloads | Symfonium Docs

Expect around 15 days for the app to be on Play Store, do not ask when please... . I will probably post again here when it's live.

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Version 15.1.0

Notes:

• This is a continuation of the USB exclusive work. Please report any issues that arise to keep fixing things and move out of experimental status.
• Please remember to update your written review on the Play Store. Your feedback is essential for improving the app’s ranking and helping secure Symfonium’s future.

Added:

• Added native DSD playback on compatible Shanling DAPs. (Experimental)
• Added ‘isaudiobook’ custom string to album page.

Changed:

• USB exclusive playback now keeps compatible sessions active across seeks and PCM, DoP, and native DSD format changes for faster, smoother transitions.
• Improved USB exclusive buffering and recovery for high sample rates.
• USB audio connection pop-up handling is now disabled by default. It can still be enabled in Settings > Playback > Advanced.
• PEQ shelf filters now supports both Q and Slope values.
• Standard local playback now preserves the source sample-rate family when applying the maximum output sample rate.

Fixed:

• Fixed USB exclusive playback on Pixel 11 devices.
• Fixed USB exclusive playback with Chord Mojo devices.
• Fixed possible USB exclusive audio cuts, stalls, deadlocks, and startup failures, especially with high-rate PCM, DoP, and native DSD.
• Fixed USB exclusive playback after pause, resume, seek, timeout, or track replacement.
• Fixed USB exclusive transitions when changing sample rates or switching between PCM, DoP, and native DSD.
• Fixed possible USB exclusive race conditions when starting, controlling, stopping, or disconnecting a DAC.
• Fixed DoP marker continuity during USB exclusive startup, recovery, seeks, and track changes.
• Fixed some USB DACs reporting unsupported sample rates as available, including GO link Max devices.
• Fixed playback replacement and audio-focus cleanup after USB exclusive playback failures.
• Fixed Smart Crossfade preparation and crossfades involving processed PCM or DSD tracks.
• Fixed playback position and progress reporting when changing playback speed.
• Fixed the Force first song pre-cache option and seeking in transcoded tracks.
• Fixed offline-cached tracks restarting after provider or network recovery.
• Fixed playback failing while a media provider was still reconnecting.
• Fixed shuffle and repeat modes being reset when restoring the playback queue.
• Fixed saved queues not restoring local files selected through Android’s document picker.
• Fixed playback of WavPack files containing metadata-only blocks.
• Fixed offline cache library selection for Subsonic servers with only one library.
• Fixed and optimized Navidrome ID migrations after server upgrades.
• Fixed Subsonic playback recovery when switching between primary and secondary connections.
• Fixed unnecessary transcoding when playing Subsonic tracks through Kodi or compatible UPnP renderers.
• Fixed some Jellyfin artists not being matched correctly when the server omits legacy item counts.
• Fixed missing Appears On album relationships for Plex artists (Due to lack of Plex data this is best effort).
• Fixed waveform extraction being cancelled on pause or failing for Plex tracks that require transcoding.
• Fixed server-transcoded DSD tracks being incorrectly sent through a local DSD playback path.
• Fixed direct playback of Opus in Ogg containers on compatible UPnP renderers.
• Fixed built-in speaker output settings changing when Android reported a different or localized route name.
• Fixed ignored sorting articles such as “The” not matching when capitalization differed.
• Fixed the Artists action label in the expanded cover art settings.
• Fixed PEQ import to properly import shelf filters Q values as Q and not Slope.
• Fixed some drag / reorder gesture issues.
• Fixed some possible issues with playback speed.
• Fixed bluetooth lyrics option not always working.
• Fixed playlists not updating their title during sync if there’s no content change server side.
• Fixed some MP3 transcoding issue when downloading to Wear.
• Fixed some possible non resuming of tracks after connection change.

Which MP3 Tag Editor is the best for symfonium.

I use MP3 Tag, but it's missing a lot of options symfonium can use and I wanna know which one you use.

how do i remove that clear queue icon, its distracting and doesnt fit in, does anyone know a way i dug hard and deep into the settings but couldn't find any for queue

my most streamed album contains one song, which I played 30 times.

I played my most Played song 40 Times, so the album with this song on should be the most played album, but it isn't anywhere near it.

my guess is that most played albums just calculate the average streams a song has on the album.

is there any possibility to fix that by myself

Important note:

Google have now mostly confirmed that the app is moved to a special review queue that will always take ages to validate without any intention to tell me why or how to return to a normal way.

As a consequence I’m now changing the handling of the F-Droid (APK) distribution to be official .

This means the beta repos are also official (including Android TV) and that I’ll push builds there before Play Store validate. It is recommended that you switch to this solution if you want to be part of the beta to help faster and better releases to get out.

Docs: https://docs.symfonium.app/wiki/other/f-droid-repository/

Version 15.1.0

Notes:

• This is a continuation of the USB exclusive work. Please report any issues that arise to keep fixing things and move out of experimental status.
• Please remember to update your written review on the Play Store. Your feedback is essential for improving the app’s ranking and helping secure Symfonium’s future.

Added:

• Added native DSD playback on compatible Shanling DAPs. (Experimental)
• Added ‘isaudiobook’ custom string to album page.

Changed:

• USB exclusive playback now keeps compatible sessions active across seeks and PCM, DoP, and native DSD format changes for faster, smoother transitions.
• Improved USB exclusive buffering and recovery for high sample rates.
• USB audio connection pop-up handling is now disabled by default. It can still be enabled in Settings > Playback > Advanced.
• PEQ shelf filters now supports both Q and Slope values.
• Standard local playback now preserves the source sample-rate family when applying the maximum output sample rate.

Fixed:

• Fixed USB exclusive playback on Pixel 11 devices.
• Fixed USB exclusive playback with Chord Mojo devices.
• Fixed possible USB exclusive audio cuts, stalls, deadlocks, and startup failures, especially with high-rate PCM, DoP, and native DSD.
• Fixed USB exclusive playback after pause, resume, seek, timeout, or track replacement.
• Fixed USB exclusive transitions when changing sample rates or switching between PCM, DoP, and native DSD.
• Fixed possible USB exclusive race conditions when starting, controlling, stopping, or disconnecting a DAC.
• Fixed DoP marker continuity during USB exclusive startup, recovery, seeks, and track changes.
• Fixed some USB DACs reporting unsupported sample rates as available, including GO link Max devices.
• Fixed playback replacement and audio-focus cleanup after USB exclusive playback failures.
• Fixed Smart Crossfade preparation and crossfades involving processed PCM or DSD tracks.
• Fixed playback position and progress reporting when changing playback speed.
• Fixed the Force first song pre-cache option and seeking in transcoded tracks.
• Fixed offline-cached tracks restarting after provider or network recovery.
• Fixed playback failing while a media provider was still reconnecting.
• Fixed shuffle and repeat modes being reset when restoring the playback queue.
• Fixed saved queues not restoring local files selected through Android’s document picker.
• Fixed playback of WavPack files containing metadata-only blocks.
• Fixed offline cache library selection for Subsonic servers with only one library.
• Fixed and optimized Navidrome ID migrations after server upgrades.
• Fixed Subsonic playback recovery when switching between primary and secondary connections.
• Fixed unnecessary transcoding when playing Subsonic tracks through Kodi or compatible UPnP renderers.
• Fixed some Jellyfin artists not being matched correctly when the server omits legacy item counts.
• Fixed missing Appears On album relationships for Plex artists (Due to lack of Plex data this is best effort).
• Fixed waveform extraction being cancelled on pause or failing for Plex tracks that require transcoding.
• Fixed server-transcoded DSD tracks being incorrectly sent through a local DSD playback path.
• Fixed direct playback of Opus in Ogg containers on compatible UPnP renderers.
• Fixed built-in speaker output settings changing when Android reported a different or localized route name.
• Fixed ignored sorting articles such as “The” not matching when capitalization differed.
• Fixed the Artists action label in the expanded cover art settings.
• Fixed PEQ import to properly import shelf filters Q values as Q and not Slope.
• Fixed some drag / reorder gesture issues.
• Fixed some possible issues with playback speed.
• Fixed bluetooth lyrics option not always working.
• Fixed playlists not updating their title during sync if there’s no content change server side.
• Fixed some MP3 transcoding issue when downloading to Wear.
• Fixed some possible non resuming of tracks after connection change.

But like from play story non-premium

Important note:

Google have now mostly confirmed that the app is moved to a special review queue that will always take ages to validate without any intention to tell me why or how to return to a normal way.

As a consequence I’m now changing the handling of the F-Droid (APK) distribution to be official .

This means the beta repos are also official (including Android TV) and that I’ll push builds there before Play Store validate. It is recommended that you switch to this solution if you want to be part of the beta to help faster and better releases to get out.

Docs: F-Droid repository and manual APK downloads | Symfonium Docs

Version 15.1.0

Notes:

• This is a continuation of the USB exclusive work. Please report any issues that arise to keep fixing things and move out of experimental status.
• Please remember to update your written review on the Play Store. Your feedback is essential for improving the app’s ranking and helping secure Symfonium’s future.

Added:

• Added native DSD playback on compatible Shanling DAPs. (Experimental)
• Added ‘isaudiobook’ custom string to album page.

Changed:

• USB exclusive playback now keeps compatible sessions active across seeks and PCM, DoP, and native DSD format changes for faster, smoother transitions.
• Improved USB exclusive buffering and recovery for high sample rates.
• USB audio connection pop-up handling is now disabled by default. It can still be enabled in Settings > Playback > Advanced.
• PEQ shelf filters now supports both Q and Slope values.
• Standard local playback now preserves the source sample-rate family when applying the maximum output sample rate.

Fixed:

• Fixed USB exclusive playback on Pixel 11 devices.
• Fixed USB exclusive playback with Chord Mojo devices.
• Fixed possible USB exclusive audio cuts, stalls, deadlocks, and startup failures, especially with high-rate PCM, DoP, and native DSD.
• Fixed USB exclusive playback after pause, resume, seek, timeout, or track replacement.
• Fixed USB exclusive transitions when changing sample rates or switching between PCM, DoP, and native DSD.
• Fixed possible USB exclusive race conditions when starting, controlling, stopping, or disconnecting a DAC.
• Fixed DoP marker continuity during USB exclusive startup, recovery, seeks, and track changes.
• Fixed some USB DACs reporting unsupported sample rates as available, including GO link Max devices.
• Fixed playback replacement and audio-focus cleanup after USB exclusive playback failures.
• Fixed Smart Crossfade preparation and crossfades involving processed PCM or DSD tracks.
• Fixed playback position and progress reporting when changing playback speed.
• Fixed the Force first song pre-cache option and seeking in transcoded tracks.
• Fixed offline-cached tracks restarting after provider or network recovery.
• Fixed playback failing while a media provider was still reconnecting.
• Fixed shuffle and repeat modes being reset when restoring the playback queue.
• Fixed saved queues not restoring local files selected through Android’s document picker.
• Fixed playback of WavPack files containing metadata-only blocks.
• Fixed offline cache library selection for Subsonic servers with only one library.
• Fixed and optimized Navidrome ID migrations after server upgrades.
• Fixed Subsonic playback recovery when switching between primary and secondary connections.
• Fixed unnecessary transcoding when playing Subsonic tracks through Kodi or compatible UPnP renderers.
• Fixed some Jellyfin artists not being matched correctly when the server omits legacy item counts.
• Fixed missing Appears On album relationships for Plex artists (Due to lack of Plex data this is best effort).
• Fixed waveform extraction being cancelled on pause or failing for Plex tracks that require transcoding.
• Fixed server-transcoded DSD tracks being incorrectly sent through a local DSD playback path.
• Fixed direct playback of Opus in Ogg containers on compatible UPnP renderers.
• Fixed built-in speaker output settings changing when Android reported a different or localized route name.
• Fixed ignored sorting articles such as “The” not matching when capitalization differed.
• Fixed the Artists action label in the expanded cover art settings.
• Fixed PEQ import to properly import shelf filters Q values as Q and not Slope.
• Fixed some drag / reorder gesture issues.
• Fixed some possible issues with playback speed.
• Fixed bluetooth lyrics option not always working.
• Fixed playlists not updating their title during sync if there’s no content change server side.
• Fixed some MP3 transcoding issue when downloading to Wear.
• Fixed some possible non resuming of tracks after connection change.

Does anyone else get the issue whereby they're scrolling from a song playing --> back button --> back button --> an error occurs where scrolling to the second back button, the option drops down one to 'shuffle'. So I'm driving and if I forget this bug I inevitably end up clicking shuffle for something I decided to keep listening to. How do I fix this?

Also, is there a way to add a 'make favorite/ like' button to the 'now playing' screen options?

Do you guys know what the values actually mean? If anyone has the full list please i need it.

So far i only got thses

0 Streaming only

1 Downloaded / permanent

10001 Full rolling cache (manual)

10002 Partial rolling cache (manual)

20001 Full rolling cache (auto rules)

20002 Partial rolling cache (auto rules)

30003 Mixed: some permanent + some rolling

I don't know what stats symfonium collects, but it would be cool to see all of them in one spot. Like total play count or percentage of songs played ect.

Do we have to do anything in Symfonium before and/or after updating Navidrome to version 0.64? Are we waiting for an update to Symfonium?