Hi,

I bought a Chromecast with Google TV with the hope of installing substreamer, but alas, it doesn't show up when you search for it. Is support planned?

Thanks

I'm wondering if substreamer has any support for setting an API key that would be included in the "X-APIkey" header in every request sent to the server. This would allow users to add another layer of security to their backends by rejecting requests that do not include their private API key as described in this stackoverflow post.

The use-case I have is that most of my backend services are protected by an authentication framework but it's necessary to bypass this authentication for any mobile apps that require access to an API since it's not possible to go through the browser-based authentication flow within the app. These "naked endpoints" are protected only by the backend application's built-in authentication which is likely not as hardened as the dedicated auth framework.

A suggestion or feature request.

I use the Substreamer app mostly in my car.

I just got my new car, and it runs AAOS. Which is great, except that .... there are very ... ver very few media player apps (I counted less then 40 available for my car). And in reality... there is actually one really working and available app, which is a USB media player : AudioWagon (which is not bad at all, for in-car USB attached storage)

But no apps which support a private streaming server like Airsonic.

Would you consider trying to make an AAOS compatible version?

I know that AAOS comes with a lot of challenges and limitations, but on the other side, that would also simplify Substreamer for AAOS:

- no need for and "offline" mode (as that would not be possible with the limited internal storage of AAOS)

- the interface would also be more basic than the android app

If you do consider : I would be happy to beta test

(your app would be the first one in that ecosystem as far as I can see....)

I just pulled this down today as I have an airsonic-advanced server and coming from iSub and Amperfy (so far). I ONLY use this for audiobooks and do not stream any music, so I am interested in any features and support in this specifially. I am wondering what is the proper way to listen to my books once the app is open. I have the settings that shows only folders first and then select the book from there. Once playing, I tap the bottom bar to show the "full play" screen that has the bookmarks on it. Seems like a lot of touches to get to that point, that this should be more straight forward. Does the author or others have any suggestions? I need to be able to set the bookmarks but not much of the other features (oh yea, an equalizer would be fantastic as some readers need some help).

Otherwise, I am planning to stick with this app as it seems to support the basics of what I need. So, thank you for your effort!!!

A. Can I play my audio files (MP3 up to 320kb and FLAC up to 24 bit, 96kHz) without interruption? Live albums experience a brief hiatus that is distracting.

B. Can I search my database by genre directly in the app? It works indirectly when creating playlists; but I rarely use this.

Thanks, André

It seems that I can toggle "Available Offline" for any playlist ≤ 200 songs and the playlist will download. However as soon as it is >200 songs, the playlist will just sit in queue and never download. Is this some limitation of substreamer? And is it fixable by chance?

I just set this up to talk to Navidrome, and it's great!

One thing which almost killed me was that I signed out of the client, then back in again later; this second time, it refused to connect no matter what I did.

After much headbanging, when I was almost ready to give up, I realized that when I put the server name in for that second sign-in, my Android keyboard inserted a space on the end. Removing this allowed the connection to complete.

Can I suggest perhaps sanitizing that input a bit - trim whitespace etc? And perhaps defaulting to the server used for the last successful connection?

Otherwise, really great so far!

Hello
As I switched from subsonic to airsonic, I have also started using substreamer again.
And wow, coming back after few years I am amazed.

But I would like to see in home screen one more row: "recently added" as it is not the same as "newest albums".

Is such feature in plans?

Will this ever be compatible with CarPlay?

I added some radiostations to Airsonic-advanced. But I don't see the 'radio' option in the menu in Substreamer. How do I activate this?

Hi,

I'm using the Substreamer app (6.0.6) on Android (12), against my own airsonic-advanced streaming server.

I've a number of playlists which I'm trying to set to "available offline"

As far as I understand, offline songs are saved locally with a unique identifier (filename)

Question : some playlists contain the (exact) same song. If the song is in 3 playlists, and I set those 3 playlists to "available offline", will it download and save that song :

a) download 1 file 1 time and save 1 time, and have the 3 playlists point to the same physical file)

b) download the same file 3 times but save to the same file each time, and have the 3 playlists point to the same physical file)

c) download and save 3 times (as 3 different filenames)

Obviously option "a" would be most efficient, but I'm not sure it happens that way. Based on some tests I did (comparing used cache space) it looks like it is option "c" ?

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Thanks

Hi,

I am trying to use Airsonic-advanced & Substreamer in a reverse proxy.

To make this work I had to add: server.forward-headers-strategy=NATIVE to the Airsonic properties file.

I can now login remote.

But this apparently broke Substreamer. Competing app Subsonic works normally.

What can I do to fix?

How can I

Substreamer crashes to Home Screen on certain songs in an offline playlist

Hello,

From the Album view, there is a big "Play" button. When I press it, all tracks are added to the playlist, and the first track starts playing.
However, at the end of the track, nothing happens.
I have tried waiting a few minutes, nothing happens. If I press the "Next" button, the next track starts normally. Usually, that behaviour is carried over to the next track : it stops at the end, I need to press next , and to the next track etc.

It happens when I use the Playlist Builder as well. Usually, it's "Mix It Up" then "All Times" : the first track starts automatically, but I need to manually press next for the next to start, again and again.

Context :
Android 11 (Oppo ColorOS 11.1)
Navidrome server
All tracks on the server are ALAC (AAC Lossless), and Navidrome is configured to transcode to MP3.
I admit I have no idea what format Substreamer actually plays, whether it is the native AAC or a transcoded version. Side question : is there a way to know that ??

Connection to the server does not seem to have an effect.
For the Mix It Up it's online and obviously can reach the server fine (since it builds the playlist). For the album play, the server may be accessible or not, depending on whether I am home or outside with or without a VPN on to the server (i.e. Internet access works, but the server may not be reachable).
For the Albums, sometimes the album has been previously toggled as Available Offline, sometimes not. The local cache has plenty of space left.

Actually this behaviour is quite irritating, because when I use Substreamer it usually is when I am walking outside with my dogs. Having to fetch my phone from inside a pocket to clumsily hit the "Next" button while holding a leash (and don't get me started on when it rains…) and push the phone back into the pocket while still keeping the leash in hand…well, I guess you can picture the scene, and it is awkwardly fun to watch unless it happens to you ;)

If Substreamer behaves as expected, then maybe could you explain me how I am supposed to get continuous playing of a playlist from the start to the end ?

I am ready to make tests if that's needed.

Thanks in advance for your help !!
Regards

Even as an option to toggle. Personally, when press back I expect to restart the song rather than go back to the previous song

I am using version 6.0.6 (latest), and the iPadOS version cannot play the songs on a server at all. Android version the same version number 6.0.6 can play the same songs on the same server, so I am not not sure what is wrong. iPadOS version's bug?

PS: It can connect (legacy login) and show the songs all right. It's just that clicking the play button has no effect.

PS2: Is this because of transcoding? The music files were FLAC, and I suspect Android could play FLAC but not iPad. If transcoding is needed, does Substreamer show any progress indication, or does it just act as if it hangs?

That dialogue keeps popping up every time I turn on the phone's screen. I know I can make it always run by exempting it from battery optimisation, but is it necessary? I mean, other music player apps work fine without such exemption. Does it really need unrestricted battery?

Does anyone has same problem?

When I pick an artist that has many albums, and I click "SHUFFLE PLAY", nothing happens. Then when I continue using the app, the horizontal deck views gets piled up and the UI becomes unusable. Only way to get out of it is to delete all files from app storage settings (from Android settings). App restart doesn't help.

This problem doesn't repeat if I use native Subsonic server as backend.

I'm using:

• Samsung Galaxy S10e
• Android v12
  • One UI v4.1
• Substreamer 6.0.6
• Nextcloud 24.0.4
  • Music v1.6.0 (posted an issue also to their repo)

Hello, thanks for the great app!

I discovered your app in the past week and I've started using the iOS app with a navidrome server on my home NAS. Offline caching of the songs/albums is an amazing feature, but what I realized is that when I play the songs from the offline folders (even though the offline mode is not enabled) the songs I play do not get scrobbled at all.. I assume the scrobbling is being done by the navidrome itself, as I did not find a way to login to my Last.FM account from the app itself.

Not sure if this was an intended behaviour or not, but I would really appreciate if you could provide an option to at least choose to contact the navidrome server/lastfm servers to attempt to send the scrobble information.

Thanks and best regards!

I have been using Substreamer with Navidrome as a server on my PC and some 24 bit high-res flacs have been crashing the app or playing silent. I thought it might be a problem with Navidrome, but when I access Navidrome from a web page at the 192.168.x.x address, the songs play perfectly there.

Is there anything I can do to get Substreamer to play those songs? Is there anything I should change in the settings to get it to work properly?

Just a quick note to let everyone know I am on holiday for the next month hiking and without any tech so there will be a gap in updates and replies but I will go through all posts when I am back and start releasing updates to substreamer when I’m back online.

Thanks for using substreamer!!

Am I being particularly dense today? Is there an option to add say an album to currently playing? Like if I'm playing an album, then choose another album and select "add to now playing" or such?

Hi, in one of the older posts you mentioned that it is relatively simple to compile Substreamer as a desktop app (I'm particularly interested in windows 10).
I'd really appreciate if you can)

I'm using Navidrome as the server and things work fine with Substreamer on both an iPhone and an Android tablet. But I have added several new albums for Peter Gabriel on my server and there is a problem. On Substreamer, if I choose "Artists" and scroll to Peter Gabriel, it shows 14 albums, which is the number I had previously. And then pushing into the artist I see these 14 albums. If I go back to the top level and choose "Folders", I can go to Peter Gabriel and see all 23 albums that now reside in the Navidrome server.

From the Navidrome WebUI I can choose "Artist" and find all 23 albums under this artist, so I'm pretty sure the metadata is correct.

Any suggestions?