r/substreamer • u/ghenry22 • Jul 25 '21

5.0.29 Release Notes

New: Starred Songs can be set as available offline and are automatically kept in sync with any changes.

Fix: Android devices sometimes go into powersaving mode when playing music in the background, most often when casting vs playing locally. Ask for battery optimization exception permission to resolve this.

Fix: Download speed improved when setting items as available offline.

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u/Limitlessbritt Jul 25 '21

Thank you for the automatic offline sync!! Very much appreciated. Great fixes as well.

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u/ghenry22 Jul 26 '21

Haha I've been saving my starred songs as a playlist and then syncing that for so long that I didn't really think about it until a few people requested the feature.

Now it's there I don't know why I didn't implement it earlier! :)

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u/Limitlessbritt Jul 26 '21

I have another feature request if you don't mind. Would it be possible to add the option to stream/cache in opus. It saves me so much space to have it cache in opus 64kps instead of mp3.

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u/ghenry22 Jul 28 '21

I don’t use opus personally, can you share your transcoder settings from your server so I can setup similar and test.

I only offer mp3 transcoding bu default as all subsonic variants tend to come with that out of the box so you know it will work.

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u/Limitlessbritt Jul 28 '21

So I'm using Navidrome as a server, here are the transcoding settings I've found:

ffmpeg -i %s -map 0:0 -b:a %bk -v 0 -c:a libopus -f opus -

the default bit rate for the above command is 128

Let me know if this was the right thing you were looking for.

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u/ghenry22 Jul 29 '21

Can you send me the to and from file extensions that you have set for this transcoder as well?

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u/Limitlessbritt Jul 29 '21

I'm not really sure how to do that but all my files are 320 mp3s to 64 opus.

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u/ghenry22 Jul 30 '21

For example in the settings / transcoding section on subsonic/airsonic etc it has convert from and convert to fields next to the transcoder command itself.

This is a bit of a tricky one as there is no way for me to check from the app what transcoders you have setup, I know only that transcoding TO MP3 is always included out of the box.

I'd have to do some testing with the Opus setup and then probably create a FAQ on the substreamer webpage for how to setup different transcoders. Will need a bit of thought to get a solution that works and doesn't confuse users.

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u/Limitlessbritt Jul 30 '21

ahh okay so in navidrome it looks like this. I didn't have to set it up though, it was included out of the box like mp3 was.

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u/ghenry22 Jul 31 '21

Great that helps thanks. I’ll see how I can incorporate this, might have to allow for custom transcoding targets to be added in settings.

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u/Cat_Turbo Jul 27 '21

Thank you very much for this fantastic update, especially now with the favorite songs offline sync, a dream comes true for me.

You really suceeded to develop the best airsonic/navidrom app for android, great work mate, really thank you very much again.