MusicStreamer

I see that other players are able to EQ and maintain gapless playback. Any plans to address that in this player? It’s a real bummer for albums that aren’t meant to have silent gaps between tracks.

I have a NAS that holds my extensive music library across multiple genres, decades, and artists. MusicStreamer connects seamlessly to my NAS and stays connected. I can connect to my Yamaha amp, my Sonos speakers, even my TV. I can play across those devices all together or one at a time. I get no drops, no static, no issues in playback. I play an album start to finish or I can create playlists of my favorites tunes. I can shuffle or repeat play. All my cover art is shown as stored. Oh, did I mention support? They have amazing support and respect my specific needs. Absolutely love this app for in home streaming from my NAS. Totally recommend it!

Why wouldn’t you not take the album name from the file tag!? To go even further, the first folder under the artist folder is usually the album name, which you ignore and instead take the subfolder as the album name. So most of my albums show up in the app with the name “Disc 01”. Just dumb coding. Use the tags for their purpose.

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I really want to love this app. Streaming directly from iCloud Drive is a fantastic feature as I have about 5TB of music stored there. However the UI is horrid. Why can’t I tap on a song and then just hear the rest of the album? The whole “play this”, “queue up” option is just stupid. Larger text would be nice. The player is just strange…the artwork all the way at the bottom with all of that wasted space up top?

I had recently set up a Raspberry Pi NAS for my home and have been looking for a mobile app that would allow me to stream my music when outside the home. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like MusicStreamer will do this without backend server support, but with some creative Docker use I was able to set up a tunneling network that allows me to play my media anywhere I have a connection to the Internet. MusicStreamer handles this extremely well. However, the one thing that bothers me about the app is that everything is a manual action. Clicking a song from an album to play will only play that song; the app won’t roll over to the next song on the album unless I specifically put all of the songs into the play queue through one of four different methods. I have no idea why this was the design decision; I’ve never encountered such a cumbersome interaction in any other music player I’ve ever used.

I struggled with this when I first downloaded the app last year. I mean seriously struggled the help files are not all that helpful and now I’ve upgraded my phone and have to go through it all again. I’ve sat here over an hour creating music sources but can’t connect to any of them. It’s just too complicated.

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Most of the things I want to listen to on my iPhone, especially in playlists, are tracks I recorded myself. They don't have cover art, and they have lonnnng file names that start the same. For example, "My friend's concert recorded at home on May 4th part 1.flac" and "My friend's concert recorded at home on May 4th part 2.flac". The detailed information about each track is important, and really can't be omitted. FileBrowser Pro, which I adore, handles long file names by rapidly scrolling them side to side so you can see the end of the file name. But it doesn't let you create play lists or have an equalizer. Clearly sound fidelity is important to me, or I wouldn't be recording the tracks in lossless FLAC. I was very excited when I read that Stratospherix also makes a music app. However, MusicStreamer has unmoving file names and no portrait mode, so there's no way to tell them apart on a small iPhone screen. There are also no indicators in the screen about how they're sorted (by date, filename, etc.) so you just can't tell them apart in the app's UI. My workaround was to create playlists in VLC (I refuse to use iTunes) and one in MusicStreamer, then alter the ones from VLC so they'll play in MusicStreamer. But you'd better make sure that all of the tracks are in the order you want, because if you need to change them in MusicStreamer, you're back to the problem of not being able to tell which one's which in the UI. It's madness. Another big downside... the user guides were clearly written by the marketing department, and contain very little step by step info, and only for functions that are intuitively obvious anyway. If you want to use it in a way that most people don't, you'll get to figure it out for yourself. Or you can go to the user community on X (formerly Twitter, no thanks, I left that platform when it started undergoing its radical transformation). I'll probably keep using it because FileBrowser Pro is absolutely perfect, except for the lack of playlists and real audio file handling. MusicStreamer integrates with it beautifully. Or, I may give up and go back to using VLC. The only reason I stopped using VLC in the first place is because in the iOS version, connecting to Windows vs. Linux network shares is complicated and a matter of trial and error. With almost 27,000 audio tracks, there's no way I'm downloading them all to my iPhone. Setting up FileBrowser Pro and MusicStreamer network share connections is super quick and easy. Better yet, I'll find a real music app that handles high quality audio files, long file names, various types of network shares, and does not depend on thumbnails for you to tell the files apart. Wish me luck!🤞🍀🙏

I'm using MusicStreamer to play music (flac) being streamed from a Raspberry pi using Samba. Connecting was simple and the app GUI is really nice.