Subsonic Music Streamer

This app is great in functionality but has a few missing key features - the option to shuffle the entire library, for example. Also has a few bugs, the main one being it mutes everything else that happens on the phone (critical with navigation apps!). All in all it's very good.

This app used to be decent, but has been totally neglected by the developer. I pay for the actual service so it's insanely disappointing that this app is ignored. No lock screen controls, no ability to even move songs around the queue!

Functionally I find the app adequate, most of the subsonic apps are missing features that are considered basic at this point. What I am complaining about is that my phone complains 4 or 5 times a day that subsonic is opening my microphone. This happens when I have not used the subsonic app and it's not actively running or even open in the background. I can't figure out why it should be touching the microphone when I am not specifically using that feature. I have to remove this, I don't have enough confidence with the vague explanation given.

Excellent app to stream your audio files from your computer! One issue is that when using Google Maps the voice navigation command will pause Subsonic but you only get silence you can't hear the voice navigation unless you stop Subsonic.

I've been a subsonic user for many years and while the sever application has been receiving updates and new features, the app has remained stagnant. I have tried the 3rd party apps and still prefer the interface of the official app; however, there are a few issues. Certain aspects of the app are buggy. Using subsonic while also trying to navigate with Google Maps is problematic, and the options for podcasts, and playlist editing within the app would be nice.

Audio focus support is broken. When using any map application that gives voice prompts, the music pauses and you can't hear the navigation app. Since 95% of the time, I'm listening to music on Subsonic while I'm driving, this issue makes this app nearly useless.

I like the App very much, but two things bother me a lot. 1. You can't choose the path of the cache. 2. The App doesn't read the discnumber tag, so when an album consists of more then one CD the order gets totally mixed up. Would be very nice if these two things could be added.

I've been a subsonic user for years. One thing I would change about the app is to add podcast support. Send like it would be an easy addition since the subsonic server is already syncing them. D Sub is also good and has a lot more options for customization.

With the new "Audio focus support" in ver. 4.4, the music keeps pausing when using a running app - I guess because "another app requires focus, for instance route guidance." But I care less about getting my distance right than about having the music streamed seamlessly. I keep having to pull my smartphone out of my carrier belt, turning it on, and hitting the "Play" button. A great app otherwise.

Ever since my wife and I upgraded to our Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Note 5 devices, we both experience frequent "blips" or "skips" with Subsonic. This happens whether using this Subsonic app or DSub, so it us something with the Subsonic server back end. I know it's not our devices because I've installed Plex and have zero issues with that service. We'll be paying for a Plex subscription going forward.

I bought the license and have an excellent connection, but it still has a hard time streaming mp3s. I can play music flawlessly with Google with half the signal. And pinning the music first doesn't seem to help... Wish this was a little more polished.

Everything works well, but it automatically starts playing when connected to Bluetooth. Remote control features are very lacking. Just one button to toggle control the browser player. You should be able to select the specific player you wish to control remotely. In it's current state I can't remotely control subsonic on my HTPC.

When connecting to my mazda car's Bluetooth, and I'm running Google map, the song will stop for navigation. However, the navigation won't come out. Really hate that couple of seconds silent. Too bad, I liked the UI

When it worked it was great. I tried many things such as reinstalling the app and the server and still I cannot pay from server, I even rebuilt the server on s different machine. The Web app is still working but it's a pain to use on a mobile.

There's no way for this to get configurable. I tried for hours, it simply doesn't connect with my server. Too bad, I was really looking forward to this app.

Don't be fooled. Once you've been using this for a couple of weeks you'll be asked to pay up or get lost. Rubbish!

Didn't think it would take much to stream an mp3 at reduced quality over 4G or wifi, but this occasionally skips on both. Also, the UI can be slow or briefly lock up at times. This is a great concept, I really hope the Android app continues to improve.

Randomly plays music when paused and app is in the background, sometimes selecting Play Now plays a different track (usually the first of a previous selection, ie track one of the last album) rather solid though!

Pauses when other apps request audio blank out the audio from other apps via bluetooth. Can't hear navigation apps, text messages or anything else, prefect example of this is waze navigation

Decent app however there is no way to see my starred songs inside an album. I need the ability to only select starred songs in the album view. Viewing all starred songs together in one list is not a good way to see it or select.

Fantastic application, and I truly mean that. The only thing I would like is to be able to set the cache location to my SD card so I can cache loads of stuff at a single time (for when I'm back-country camping).

Love the app and the server software. Skipping tracks via Bluetooth just takes me back to the start of the current track though, even if the whole album is queued.

Despite version 4.4 claiming to have fixed it, audio ducking is still broken for me (app version 4.4, Nexus 6P, Android 7.0). While Subsonic is playing, if anything else plays a sound, like Google Maps for example, Subsonic still sets all system audio output to like 15%, instead of just its own output. Everything else is great, this is just a really frustrating (yet minor and easily fixable) bug, that really should have been fixed a loooong time ago.

I bought the license and have an excellent connection, but it still has a hard time streaming mp3s. I can play music flawlessly with Google with half the signal. And pinning the music first doesn't seem to help... Wish this was a little more polished.

Subsonic is the best implementations I've seen thus far for streaming your own music collection. I've probably tried them all and they've all fallen short. Subsonic picks up the slack in the important area, the UI has has everything you need and nothing you dont.

This app has a better user interface in my opinion than other free subsonic apps. However there is one problem that makes me use Ultrasonic. This app prevents Google maps navigation from being heard. The media audio mutes and you hear nothing while I assume directions are given. So I find this app useless for road trips. However I keep it on my phone as I really do like the interface and layout better than the other apps I have tried. If it fixes the navigation issue it will become the only app on my phone.

I have a 4.4.2 KitKat phone, and it won't let me put any apps on the SD card, however, since SubSonic updated, the default folder is on the SD card properly. They added unlimited preset servers! You rock! This app is now a bright shiny piece of gold! This is one of my most valuable pieces of free software on my phone/PC! I heard you can use your PC and make this work with Google ChromeCast too! If I could request 1 feature/modification it would be.... umm.... there is NOTHING I can think of!! A+ Job. *note:(unless it was updated) If users have problems with music not showing up, make sure all your music is in SUB-Folders, because they don't seem to show up if their in the root folder, such as if you add "c:music" as a media folder and have "c:musicSong.mp3" then that song wouldn't show up, but "c:musicfunsong.mp3" will, because it's in 1 folder deeper than you typed in the java web setup, which was "c:music"

This app is the worst over bluetooth!! It just downloaded the same song 793 times in a row, consuming 4GBs in background usage!!! That alone just cost me $30 with Verizon. I guarantee that it's due to the newest Android software update that was just pushed out this morning. In addition, it automatically starts up upon bluetooth connection no matter what settings are chosen. I've used this app with different Android phones in 3 different cars and it does the same thing almost every time. This app will screw you badly with your cell provider if you don't turn off background data.....which renders the app pointless. Good luck!!

i feel sorry for anyone who pays for this service and doesn't have any help. i've been trying for hours to set this up. i hear it's great if you can get it to work. till then, i want my money back.

:-) Thanks for an excellent app! The server is getting better all the time - "radio" is excellent - playing a selection like the artist I'd searched for. "Pin"ning tunes works well so I can play media when I have no signal on the underground. The player bandwidth option is useful, too (except my little old server gets busy transcoding). If it didn't keep putting gaps at the beginning of newly downloaded tracks, I'd give it 5 stars.

Been using this app for years. All of the sudden it started draining my battery after my phone received lollipop. Uses 30-35% of my battery even if I don't open the app at all.

WARNING: Data Hog - My phone's data usage has gone through the roof during periods when I barely listen to 3 different songs. In the last week it's used over 1GB of data, and I've listened to only 4 different songs. Songs I've just played in the last 10 minutes will buffer, play for 20 seconds, then stop and buffer again even though I just finished playing it once. There's a definite problem. Until it's fixed, I'd steer away from using this unless you have truly unlimited data or only use on WiFi. Going to try UltraSonic player now.

I'd like to see some of the features of other Android Subsonic apps brought to this one and the ability to save/cache media on external SD brought back. Inactive development. Losing stars!

Um, just downloaded it and I can't even type into the search bar to find a song. Great app???? Not.

Set up your own server. Use a dynamic IP and forward router and though secured port. Wrap in tls and enjoy your own personal media server without adds.

Over a year since the last update. Could use some new polish.

I've used this happily for years. It could do with an update now, however. As others (eg Robert Schauer) have reported, it's not entirely stable. My S4 also frequently crashes after streaming music for 20-30 mins.

For free, I cannot complain. I wanted an app to connect to my Ampache server via HTTPS and this worked. Bandwidth limitation to help save some data usage on mobile is a huge plus! It has a much better interface than then any other free Subsonic apps, and above and beyond any native Ampache apps (mostly all dead anyway). Still, it is not without its limitations. The audio focus is way off. Not only does it mute the music when navigation kicks in, but it mutes the navigation audio as well. Kind of useless at this point. Gapless playback is not available (the first attempt to play streaming ogg files will just stop and skip to the next song after 20 seconds; would have to skip back to play correctly...just got annoying after a while). It's a good app for those that don't really expect or need too much. But, it lacks quite a bit that Ultrasonic (also free...but dead project) does better (list by album title, gapless playback, correct audio focus, and being able to list my video catalog and play them). Since the Ultrasonic project looks like it's dead, I'm really hoping this one will catch up.

Absolutely zero tech support from developer. Site has been down for 3 days. Emails unanswered. Biggest bummer it is a paid account.

One issue I have, is I just got a KitKat phone, and it won't let me put any apps on the SD card, and the folder where it caches the music, is locked to the internal space, which has no room to spare. You need to allow the folder to save/play music, to be customizable, or else I can't use the app anymore. They added unlimited preset servers! You rock! This app is now a bright shiny piece of gold! This is one of my most valuable pieces of free software on my phone/PC! I heard you can use your PC and make this work with Google ChromeCast too! If I could request 1 feature/modification it would be.... umm.... there is NOTHING I can think of!! A+ Job. *note:(unless it was updated) If users have problems with music not showing up, make sure all your music is in SUB-Folders, because they don't seem to show up if their in the root folder, such as if you add "c:music" as a media folder and have "c:musicSong.mp3" then that song wouldn't show up, but "c:musicfunsong.mp3" will, because it's in 1 folder deeper than you typed in the java web setup, which was "c:music"