SubStreamer

First of all, thank you to the developers of this project for their hardwork. I quickly went through the process of connecting to my Navidrome server and want to share my experience. Hardware: I am using an iPhone 13 on ios 18. Review: This is the most feature rich navidrome client I have tested so far. Everything I have tested in terms of playback so far has worked great. The playlist generator features are ambitious and take a while to load (I have yet to actually build a playlist using this feature cause my patience was thin), but I like the attempt to handle this on the client. I don’t hold this against the app because it feels more like an extra credit feature IMO. I also did run into a couple of UI bugs when I first tried using the player. I have not been able to repeat this behavior though, and I have been using the app now for about half an hour with no issues. So again, I won’t hold it against the app. What I will hold against the app, is that the UI pushes a lot of the playlist generator features, and they don’t seem to work super cleanly. This contributes to the UI feeling a little overwhelming compared to more barebones alternatives, and this makes it hard for me to recommend the app to a non-technical user. For myself, these problems are easy to look past, and I would daily drive this app in its current form.

Best app by far for Navidrome clients I’ve found for iOS. There’s are some minor tweaks that could be made that would make user experience better.1.) When you are playing a song with the album cover pulled up with play/fast forward options, when you go to pull down the menu to see the song list behind it, you have to grab from the top of the screen or else it doesn’t pull down and minimize. This is a very minor thing but is quite annoying especially I would imagine so if you have a bigger phone as you have to reach super far to swipe down from the top to minimize it to see your music again. I would say this is the lowest having fruit to immediately improve user experience.2.) On the side bar menu, there is no option for “songs” to just see all songs in your library. You can only view by album or artist. It would be nice to pull up all songs from A-Z and pick from there a song to play vs drilling into an artist or album to play one.3.) In offline mode, albums and songs are separated. It would be nice to just see all of your downloaded music with filters to see al download songs, all downloaded artists and all downloaded albums. Basically if you downloaded an album, those songs won’t appear under the songs section. It should all just pool into one bucket of “downloaded music” with filters for artists, albums or just see all downloaded songs.If these improvements were made alone this app would be near perfect with such a better daily user experience. Keep up the great work this project is awesome!!! 👏🏼👏🏼

This is a great app, in a space where it doesn’t seem like there are many that are frequently updated. The interface is slick and the configuration was intuitive to get it going. A few potential areas of improvement: 1. In every other music player in the world, the back button goes to the beginning of the track - unless you’re already there in which case it does go back a track. This doesn’t do that, so I have to go back and then forward if I want to restart a song. And if I’m on the first track of a playlist, it doesn’t work at all. 2. I’d be great technical playback details. Is it playing a FLAC file? Is it an MP3? AAC? Plexamp has this and I really appreciate seeing it. 3. There’s no way to clear the queue. Just replace it. This has the effect of the iOS “playback controls” always being on my Lock Screen no matter what until I kill the app manually. Overall though, a great start and I hope to see continued development. Would be even better if it were open sourced :)