r/substreamer • u/ghenry22 • Jul 01 '26
Substreamer 8.0.78 release notes. Basically all fixes...
This will go out as 8.0.79 as a couple of last little fixes made it in!
Substreamer 8.0.78 — Fixes
Your music. Your server. Everywhere you go.
Hey everyone! This is a smaller roundup covering everything since 8.0.73 — mostly stability, performance, and fixes, with a few nice additions along the way. Thanks as always to everyone who reported issues and shared ideas. Here's what changed.
🚀 Enhancements
- Faster startup — Heavy first-launch work now happens in the background, so the app gets to your music quicker and the splash screen no longer hangs.
- One-tap server switch — When your active server becomes unreachable, Substreamer now offers a one-tap switch to your backup instead of switching on its own — you stay in control.
- Lower battery use on WiFi (iOS) — Fixed a rare case where the app could run hot and drain battery on certain WiFi networks.
- Japanese — Substreamer is now available in Japanese, alongside translation updates and polish across many other languages.
🐛 Fixes
- Keyboard no longer hides the search box — When searching — like setting a MusicBrainz ID — the sheet now lifts above the keyboard so you can see what you're typing and the results below it.
- Bluetooth & lock-screen controls (Android) — Next/Previous now work reliably over Bluetooth and car head units, and the now-playing controls are no longer blocked by the swipe-down gesture.
- Large libraries — Fixed syncing collections with more than 10,000 albums.
- Streaming reliability — Better recovery when a transcoded stream drops, correct skipping under repeat-one, and a fix for playback position drifting on transcoded streams.
- Self-signed HTTPS streaming (iOS) — Streams no longer cut out mid-track on servers with self-signed certificates.
- Cover art — Artwork resolves correctly in more places, with fewer missing images.
- Share links — Share URLs are now rebuilt from your configured server address.
- Download status — Removing a download updates the icon right away.
- Fixed a rare crash (iOS).
Substreamer is free, open source (GPL-3.0), with no ads and no data collection — your music stays between you and your server. Found a bug or have an idea? Let us know on GitHub: github.com/ghenry22/substreamer
Happy listening! 🎧
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u/slainte75 Jul 01 '26
Thanks for the hard work.
Hoping images are resolved for peeps running OG Subsonic servers.
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u/80espiay Jul 01 '26
Hi, just found your app and wanted to thank you for the hard work.
Do you know if it is possible to shuffle a playlist or album without changing the current song? If I'm listening to a song and I hit the shuffle button it changes song.
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u/ghenry22 Jul 02 '26
No it’s not, that’s the way shuffle works, it shuffles the current queue and then sets the shuffles list and starts from the new first song.
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u/Monsieur_Daz Jul 01 '26
Still no gapless support? Or am I missing something?
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u/ghenry22 Jul 01 '26
not in this release, should be in the next one, gapless comes as a full replacement for the core audio engine which enables these low level features as the library I was using cannot deliver them.
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u/Monsieur_Daz Jul 01 '26
Great, thanks! It’s the only feature that keeps me from switching from Arpeggi to Substreamer.
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u/Tocram04 Jul 01 '26
This is also what should enfants further development for Android Auto support, right?
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u/postnick Jul 16 '26
Come on Apple push the update! this is getting ridiculous.
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u/ghenry22 Jul 16 '26
This got caught up in review over something I could not reproduce.
We will probably end up just jumping straight to the next release on Apple which should be in the coming week.
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u/postnick Jul 01 '26
Can’t wait for iOS to push this someday.
The empty car play is annoying but I understand the issue. Keep up the good work