play:Sub Music Streamer

Stream your Subsonic-server-hosted music to your iOS or CarPlay device, Chromecast device or Subsonic Jukebox.
Enjoy your music everywhere, anytime, in the quality you decide!

play:Sub supports playback of most audio formats like FLAC, MP3, AAC and more.
Lossless and gapless playback is supported, as well as crossfading between tracks.

Use the 10-band fully customizable equalizer to get the right sound.
The equalizer has presets for common genres and scenarios.
Apply crossfade and replay-gain for the perfect listening experience.

Browse your music your way, be it by folder, artist, album, decade.
Control playback using gestures, buttons or remote controlled from you headset.
Play on anything: builtin speaker, headphones, Bluetooth connected headphones/amp/speaker/car-stereo or AirPlay devices.

play:Sub streams your music over any connection, and caches songs for when connectivity is bad.
Played songs are cached automatically, and you can manually cache individual songs or entire folders, artists or albums.

SERVER SUPPORT

• Subsonic, AirSonic, Ampache, Madsonic, Funkwhale, Libresonic, Navidrome
• Supports multiple servers and easy switching between them
• Any Subsonic 4.8+ compatible server should work
• You may need to enable Subsonic API on some server types

USER INTERFACE

• Dark and light UI themes
• All orientations, incl. iPad multitasking support

AUDIO

• FLAC, AAC, ALAC, MP3, MP4, OGG, WAV, AIFF, WEBM and more
• Plays most audio formats without transcoding
• Lossless playback (wo transcoding)
• Gapless playback
• 10-band equalizer
• Crossfade
• Replay Gain
• HI-rez digital up to 24bit/192kHz
• Variable playback speed (0.5-2x)

PLAY ON

• Any iOS device
• CarPlay
• Chromecast
• Jukebox

DISCOVERY

• Artist radio.
• Artist top songs
• Similar artists
• Be inspired by random artist, album or songs
• Play random songs in a genre

BROWSE YOUR MUSIC ANY WAY YOU LIKE IT

• Artists, Albums, Songs
• Folders
• Playlists, Favorites, Genres
• Podcasts, Audiobooks, Bookmarks
• Decades
• Filter by Subsonic mediafolder

INTERNET RADIOSTATIONS

• Server configured / shared internet radiostation.
• 20000+ radiostation directory powered by radiobrowser,info

PLAYLISTS

• Create, update and delete playlists
• Personal and shared playlists
• Cache complete playlists to device
• Full playlist support in both online and offline mode

FAVORITES

• Starring of artists, albums, tracks and folders
• Starring works in both online and offline mode
• Items starred when offline is synced at first chance
• Easily filter lists for starred content

GENRES

• View All, Random or Starred albums from a genre
• View Random or Starred songs from a genre

CONTEXT MENU EVERYWHERE

• Long-press any item to show relevant actions
• Easily navigate between associated artist, album, tracks and folders
• Add tracks, albums, artists or folders to playlists
• Swipe-to-reveal shortcuts

CACHING

• Automatic caching of played tracks, pre-cache upcoming tracks
• Manually cache selected folders, artists, albums or tracks
• Upgrade cached audio to better bitrate when available

SEAMLESS OFFLINE MODE

• Play cached music when connectivity is bad
• Show only cached content
• Same user interface in online and offline mode

INTEGRATION

• AirPlay, Bluetooth, remote control, lock screen & control center integration
• Support iOS’ sleep timer
• Resumes music after being interrupted by phone calls
• Background downloads

CONNECTION

• SSL, self-signed certificates
• Secure authentication for Subsonic 5.3+ servers
• cellular/wifi dependent bitrate; override settings for slow/fast WiFi networks

SCROBBLING

• Scrobbles to last.fm if configured on the server
• Updates Now Playing on the server
• Updates server-playcounts when playing cached content
• Music played while offline is scrobbled when online again

NOTE: a licensed installation of Subsonic 4.8+ is required.
Some features need a higher server version (Top Songs, Artist Radio, Similar Artists, Last.fm Imagery, Album Info)

RECORD LABELS, TITLE QUALIFIERS, CARPLAY IMPROVEMENTS

RECORD LABELS
Browse your collection by record label. Every label gets its own page with its albums, artists and songs - all of them, shuffled, or the starred ones - and an album's About page now says who released it.
Star the labels you follow and find them under Favourites, in search, and in CarPlay.
Record labels come from servers that publish them, such as Navidrome.
The URL scheme plays a label too: playsubapp://play?recordlabel=Blue Note (wildcards like Blue* work).

TITLE QUALIFIERS
"Rubber Soul (Remastered)" can be shown as "Rubber Soul", or with "(Remastered)" in smaller, dimmed text - your choice, in Settings > User Interface Tweaks > Title Qualifiers.

CARPLAY

• New: On iOS 27, album, artist, playlist, folder, genre, decade and record label pages open with a header showing the cover, title and details, with Play, Shuffle and Enqueue right there. Earlier iOS versions keep the quick action row.
• New: An artist button on the Now Playing screen takes you straight to the artist/album.
• Fixed: Icons in dark mode were black on very dark grey.

AND THE REST

• New: Automatic theme changes now follow the system appearance.
• Fixed: Handing playback off to Chromecast lost the playback position.
• Fixed: WMA files would not play on Chromecast.
• Fixed: Swiping back through the navigation stack works again.
• Various other bugfixes and improvements.

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk