DSub for Android

[daneren2005]

I just found that Dsub has trouble with playlists with a "/" in the playlist name. Not a problem, just switched it to a dash instead, but found it weird that the regular Subsonic App read that playlist when Dsub couldn't... Maybe it's something easy? A very low list priority if at all though. Thanks again for this app, it's great!

I'll take a look at it. Some background information you might or might not care about: It doesn't work in DSub because the app is actually saving the playlist to a file so you can use it while offline, while in Subsonic it does not (one of the nifty little features I added). I probably just need to do some conversion of the file so it doesn't throw an error trying to create an invalidly named file.

[daneren2005]

RE: Future Podcast support.

I listen to a lot of podcasts. I tried using Google Listen, but it's really cumbersome and half the time can't make it all the way through the podcast without the audio stopping.

Subsonic's built in podcast support is fairly good. The android apps need a bit of work though. I'd like to see the following:

1. Automatic scheduled downloads of specific podcasts
2. Setting to dictate how many podcasts to maintain on the phone
3. Separate podcast "now-playing" list.
4. Setting for download on wifi-only
5. Setting for how often to look for new podcasts (1 hr, 5 hr, etc...)

I'm was going to look at your code on github shortly as this is something I've wanted to do on the stock one for a long time, but I'm liking your variant a bit better

Other thoughts:

1. I don't see a "Pin" option like in Sindre's version. Although, I mostly use it for podcasts... so above may null the need for me.
2. Loading of large playlists. On both app versions, this is very slow and painful. If I compare this to Google music, it's night and day. I have not looked through the API much yet to see if it's a function of the APP or the server, but it would be excellent if the system would load up SOME of the the playlist immediately, while loading the remainder in the background. This gives the illusion that everything works immediately, like it does on G Music. If I load up all the music in my "Hard Rock" folder, it takes quite a few minutes to load and get going. (I have probably 9k songs in that folder alone) Maybe it's faster on other people's systems, as I only have 1Mb Uploads for now.


Thanks for the hard work!

Better podcast support is in the pipeline, but I'll be blunt in saying don't expect it too soon. I want to add podcasts to their own tab, but first I want to lay down some better frameworking before I start adding new tabs (mostly convert all the activities to fragments then start using standard ICS tabs instead of these custom ones) which will take some time. After that I also have plans for chat tab, admin tab, etc...

1) I renamed Pin to Cache. I thought it would be more obvious since using the word Pin just didn't make any sense to me.
2) I guess I don't have any large playlists (think my largest was a little over a hundred songs) so I haven't come across this. I will have to look into whether or not it's possible to start displaying stuff as it comes in or whether the readers that are being used wait for the entire thing to be received.

[otis_bartleh]

I just found that Dsub has trouble with playlists with a "/" in the playlist name. Not a problem, just switched it to a dash instead, but found it weird that the regular Subsonic App read that playlist when Dsub couldn't... Maybe it's something easy? A very low list priority if at all though. Thanks again for this app, it's great!

I'll take a look at it. Some background information you might or might not care about: It doesn't work in DSub because the app is actually saving the playlist to a file so you can use it while offline, while in Subsonic it does not (one of the nifty little features I added). I probably just need to do some conversion of the file so it doesn't throw an error trying to create an invalidly named file.

That makes total sense. It wasn't a problem for me to use a dash instead, that's what I usually do with file / folder names anyway, don't know why I did it this way this time. lol It is a great feature of yours, and is more than a worthy tradeoff!

[mr_nobody]

Didn't want to start a thread for this but I was wondering if you could post an announcement in this forum whenever you release a new version in the play store? I don't let apps auto update but I would like to know when there's a new dsub. Thanks.

[rubbersoul]

Is it easier to implement gapless playback for 4.1+? I noticed google music recently added support for gapless playback but it is 4.1+ only. Maybe native support was added in Jelly Bean?

Great work by the way. Glad to see the updated look and important features like notification and lockscreen widgets. the homescreen widget looks a bit out of place aesthetically though...

[daneren2005]

Is it easier to implement gapless playback for 4.1+? I noticed google music recently added support for gapless playback but it is 4.1+ only. Maybe native support was added in Jelly Bean?

Great work by the way. Glad to see the updated look and important features like notification and lockscreen widgets. the homescreen widget looks a bit out of place aesthetically though...

Yes it is easier to do for 4.1+ because they added a nice little API for it. I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Didn't want to start a thread for this but I was wondering if you could post an announcement in this forum whenever you release a new version in the play store? I don't let apps auto update but I would like to know when there's a new dsub. Thanks.

Sure can, I'll start doing that.

[wikke]

I like the randomize, top played, etc options.
However I can't find a way to add the output to the current playlist.

I only manage to play/add individual songs.
Is there yet a way to add the entire list immediately?
thanks

[daneren2005]

I like the randomize, top played, etc options.
However I can't find a way to add the output to the current playlist.

I only manage to play/add individual songs.
Is there yet a way to add the entire list immediately?
thanks

Hold down and then press play now if you want to play the whole thing or play last if you want it appended to the end of the playlist.

[wikke]

correct me if I'm wrong, but none of the options on the home screen allow for this longpress.

[daneren2005]

I guess I misunderstood. What are you trying to do? I was thinking you meant after clicking on, say, Random, you wanted to be able to play one of the entire albums, in which case you and long press on the album to play it.

[wikke]

Adding albums or individual songs works fine, just as you describe.

But there doesn't seem to be a way to play/queue the entire list at once (from the menu shown in the screenshot). So I mean across various artists and albums

For example : long pressing "random" doesn't give any options

[Zooey22]

Thanks to Dsub I only have my phone for music playback now, awesome app Thank You. My phone is an Evo V 4G by virgin mobile running Harmonia 3.17 sense stock rom and rooted S-off and I cannot for the life of me get the lockscreen widget to show. I have tried no lockscreen security, password, pin and pattern to no avail. It just will not show up. the native app will, Player Pro will but not Dsub. Any ideas?? I Just noticed I still have Subphonic installed, taht wouldnt be interfering would it?
I dont think Subphonic widget showed either fwiw. Yes I paid for both apps but if you can get this solved , well even if you don't its worth the money afaik.
Happy Thanksgiving all
Zoo

[daneren2005]

Adding albums or individual songs works fine, just as you describe.

But there doesn't seem to be a way to play/queue the entire list at once (from the menu shown in the screenshot). So I mean across various artists and albums

For example : long pressing "random" doesn't give any options

Yah it looks like I still need to add it. I'll add it to the todo list

Thanks to Dsub I only have my phone for music playback now, awesome app Thank You. My phone is an Evo V 4G by virgin mobile running Harmonia 3.17 sense stock rom and rooted S-off and I cannot for the life of me get the lockscreen widget to show. I have tried no lockscreen security, password, pin and pattern to no avail. It just will not show up. the native app will, Player Pro will but not Dsub. Any ideas?? I Just noticed I still have Subphonic installed, taht wouldnt be interfering would it?
I dont think Subphonic widget showed either fwiw. Yes I paid for both apps but if you can get this solved , well even if you don't its worth the money afaik.
Happy Thanksgiving all
Zoo

What Android version do you have? Right now the lockscreen controls are ICS+ only.

[Vivix7]

Great app. Quick question. Yesterday I bought this awesome live wallpaper: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... .audioglow

It works with DSub, however, the metadata is not showing up. The app developer says that he needs to add each player manually, and I have already emailed him asking for DSub implementation. He also includes says "A player can only be supported if its developer has decided to broadcast meta data within Android and I am able to contact them."

Is this something that can be doable in the future? Thanks.

[Zooey22]

Thanks to Dsub I only have my phone for music playback now, awesome app Thank You. My phone is an Evo V 4G by virgin mobile running Harmonia 3.17 sense stock rom and rooted S-off and I cannot for the life of me get the lockscreen widget to show. I have tried no lockscreen security, password, pin and pattern to no avail. It just will not show up. the native app will, Player Pro will but not Dsub. Any ideas?? I Just noticed I still have Subphonic installed, that wouldn't be interfering would it?
I don't think Subphonic widget showed either fwiw. Yes I paid for both apps but if you can get this solved , well even if you don't its worth the money afaik.
Happy Thanksgiving all
Zoo

What Android version do you have? Right now the lockscreen controls are ICS+ only.

Oh sorry its ICS 4.0.3 Sense 3.6