play:Sub Music Streamer
🇯🇵 JP LocalizedDescription
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)
What's New
New in this version: - New: Polish translation. - New: Widgets are now Interactive widgets on newer iOS versions. - Fixed: Widget rendering issues when homescreen is in clear or tinted mode.. - Fixed a server sync issue where serverside changes was not reflected in app. - Fixed a few layout issues..
Details
- Developer
- Michael Hansen
- Main Category
- Music
- Version
- 2026.6.22
- Version Release
- 2026-06-06
- Initial Release
- 2015-03-26
- Size
- 22 MB
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Price
- USD 4.99
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, PL and 2 more
- Bundle ID
- dk.mbh.play-Sub
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.48 (418)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-28
Metadata updated 2026-06-16
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User Reviews
As the title says. For this reason it’s clunky. But this app was one that worked compared to many. Too bad i couldn’t try it first.
This app is amazing. It integrated easily with my home Navidrome server and it just works. It even outputs to my Sonos speakers - it just finds them. (Unlike the Sonos app which regularly loses connection to its own hardware). Highly recommended.
Honestly, you can tell that UX is not the strong point with this application. For example, if you want to change your queue “play next” does what you expect, but “add to queue” doesn’t add the song right after that, instead it goes to the very bottom of the long randomly generated queue of shuffle. And if you want to remove a song from the queue then you have to open the queue, click the pencil to edit, click the minus next to the song, then confirm delete.
Although at first I could not remember exactly it was not exactly what I had suspected, thank the Big Man up stairs!! I had needed the username to restart the app, I in desperation communicated with my brother in law and retrieved itself. Restarting the app was then simple, and once again I had had my own personal music!! play:Sub Music Streamer has improved my Individual personal ability to enjoy my personal music with my cellular phone…although I have been through five pairs of Apple AirPods.(generation1, generation 2, generation 3).!! You’re the best man, I swear!
I have tried every available navidrome client for iOS and this is the only one that could reliably download my 50k song library transcoded using server-defined codecs.
I love the app. Love the options and customization. Can’t recommend it though bc it won’t remove albums that have been removed from the underlying database.
Playback is still more stable than modern apps such as Arpeggi or Narjo, but it’s quite buggy in iOS 26: - UI becoming unresponsive sometimes - random playing an album or a list would always skip first track - etc.
The app will crash when playing songs. The CPU usage is too high and the system terminate it. It should be a memory leak. It cannot be used normally. I have sent three emails and have not received a reply.
It does have some bugs, crashes and imperfections. But I am more than satisfied with this app, it offers most of the functionality of modern music apps. I am missing only a few things: 1. Live lyrics - where you see timed lyrics from .lrc files 2. Music suggestions. (not just random music) When you have a big library and you want to have 1 click option to just turn on music that will be perfectly shuffled. But I see limitations here since most of the time, needed metadata doesn’t exist. 3. Maybe a little simpler interface or some option to simplify it, I want to see a few clean big buttons and nothing else.
One complaint though. When I select all artists, it shows a lot of artists with 0 albums. Then if I click on those artists I can really do anything with them. I would prefer only showing the Album artists in this lists. Or at least having the ability to do that via a setting.
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