CarSub V7 now available - search, random + more

[rich600]

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce that CarSub V7 is now available.

Version 7 of CarSub has the following new features:

- Full Search of your Subsonic music collection
- Play random albums
- Play random songs
- Play highest rated
- Play most frequently played

Tweaks:

- Ability to cancel the buffering/loading view (tap view to cancel)
- For SubSonic v5.1 and above, you can chose whether anything in the Get Albums... section comes from the current music folder, or all your music

Bugs fixed:

- Loading spinner now shows when selecting Playlist
- Change of play/pause on remote control when Carsub is in the background will correctly update the icon on Now Playing
- Streaming bug on old Subsonic versions fixed

V8 is underway - I've already added an ID3 Tag mode and Last.FM integration + more tweaks and fixes.

Cheers
Rich.

[NoahJenda]

Rich,

Thanks for your continued progress on your app. It's just getting better and better.

Any progress with gapless playback? It was still about the same the last time I tested it. It's still not quite seamless.

Keeping my fingers crossed that this might be something coming up in a future version.

[rich600]

Hi,

thanks for the feedback.

I looked into the micro-gap, and I've posted an issues on the project Wiki, but I've got no response from the developer. I created a stand-alone app that demonstrated the problem, so it should be simple to replicate.

There have been some changes in the library that have yet to be incorporated into CarSub, and I will be moving those into the app in the future.

Cheers
Rich

[newpower]

I really like the interface.
Too bad cache is not working for me.

[avbudin]

Could you please add random from folder? For example I have my families collection sorted into master folders. I'd like to be able to press random, then select the folder and have it create a random playlist on the fly and start playing.

[rich600]

Hi

when you say cache is not working, could you tell me what problems you've got and I can take a look at them.

What OS version you're running and what device?

Thanks
Rich

[newpower]

Hi

when you say cache is not working, could you tell me what problems you've got and I can take a look at them.

What OS version you're running and what device?

Thanks
Rich

I was able to cache an album, then I tried to cache a playlist and nothing happened. I don't know if relevant, but the playlist contain one song from the album I was able to download along with other songs. When I check the playlist in the cache section it only shows one song (the one included in the downloaded album).

I'm using iOS 8.1.3, iPhone 6

Thanks!

[rich600]

Thanks for the info.

It sounds like it didn't download the playlist at all. The reason it shows the 1 song is because it recognized that it already had it in the downloaded album, so it reuses that rather than duplicate the song and waste valuable cache space.

I'll take a look at the scenario.

Cheers
Rich