Android client: Access to the list of playlists offline

[mahikeulbody]

I am using Android Subsonic client, it is a very nice software.

I have a little problem using it. Let say I have some playlists on the server.
- I connect my Android device to the server
- I download all songs included in my playlists in order to be able to play them offline
- I go offline, then

I can play any songs previously downloaded through artist/album browser, but I cannot play a playlist because Android Subsonic client needs a connection to start it (after it starts the playlist, no more connection is needed). So, even you have downloaded all songs of yours playliste, it is impossible to start or swich a playlist without a connection.

Is it a feature or a bug ?

Thanks for your help.

[cxc4u]

I'd like to vote this up, and have Sindre take a look at what can be done to support playlist functionality offline. It'd be great if it can sync while keeping all admin purely on the device-side. Functionally speaking:
1. Select a playlist and mark it "Pin".
2. All songs and the playlist get downloaded to the device.
3. Changes to the playlist (additions/removals) on the device get sent up to the Subsonic server, and vice versa.

What do folks think?

[dylo22]

This would be a great feature.

I would love to be able to listen and create playlist offline.

[mahikeulbody]

Hum... I am not speaking about to be able to MODIFY a playlist offline (this would be a nice feature though). I am speaking about the ability to PLAY a playlist offline (with all related songs previously downloaded, of course) : it is impossible in the current version as the device need to connect to the server to start the playlist (it doesn't need to stay connected after to start the playlist). So it is not a real offline mode and it seems more a bug than a feature.

[dylo22]

I wouldn't call it a bug. Everything works, it's just lacking an offline playlist feature.

Being able to play a playlist offline would be nice. But that would only work if all your songs on the playlist are cached. What would happen if some or all of the songs are not cached?

[mahikeulbody]

I wouldn't call it a bug. Everything works, it's just lacking an offline playlist feature.

Being able to play a playlist offline would be nice. But that would only work if all your songs on the playlist are cached. What would happen if some or all of the songs are not cached ?

May be the title of my thread is wrong : in fact, it is able to play a playlist offline. The problem is that it is not able to show the list of playlists when the device (or the server) is offline so you can only play the current playlist (i.e. the last one played before to go offline) ; the others playlists cannot be played, even if all related songs are cached locally on the device (i.e. pinned). I think it could show the cached playlists and sync playlists with the server only if a connexion is available.

NB. I am talking about Android Subsonic player.

[RWElphinstone]

I would like to vote this one up as well. I have JUST cleaned up over twenty years of music - ID tags, album covers and all - and want to take my Galaxy Nexus (yeah baby, the new one) to the gym with me. As it is right now, it looks like I'll need to go back to my old ways of duplicating all of the tracks I use at the gym into a different subdirectory, and DL them all to the phone. A playlist (which, after twenty years, I am FINALLY learning to build and use!) in offline mode would be fantastic. From a functional standpoint, I believe cxc4u has a great idea in the method by which the transfer would work.

Oh, and this is my first post here. I love (LOVE!) this program. It's amazing on all fronts. I've got it running on my home server to listen to music at work, and I've got it tuned in on both my Nexus and my Samsung Tab. (Christmas was good to me this year.)

Thanks for reading!

Rick

[BKKKPewsey]

(Christmas was good to me this year.)

I got socks

I am moving this thread to feature requests

[mdegat01]

I'd like to vote this up as well. I have two issues here that this would resolve. One is the one already mentioned, one of the reasons I love subsonic more than any other sync tool is because it's not fully streaming, it caches the music, so I can still listen in the subway. But without caching the playlists its rather annoying since if you forget to load it up before you lose connectivity you're stuck.

The other reason is unless the playlists are synced you can't access them in other programs. There is a specific option to make your mp3's available to other programs on android but the playlists don't come with you so if you want to use other players you have to remake them from scratch or not use them, both of which are very annoying if you put a lot of effort into your playlists.

I know other players are not the priority of subsonic it's just annoying since its not easy to sync them any other way. The filesystem references in the m3u files have to be translated from wherever the location is on your computer to the android location, not to mention the fact that it saves the files as <artist>/<album>/<track #>-<song title>.complete.mp3 which may be radically different than how you had the file organized on your desktop system. I managed to scrap together an elaborate system with eventghost, a script and dropbox that gets the playlists translated and syncable on my device every time they change but it would be really really nice if subsonic just saved the adjusted playlist it makes when you load a playlist in the app.

And for the record I really like subsonic's player a lot, it works well and the fact that it has an equalizer is nice. I noticed some quirks like occasional static or gaps in the playback but nothing really too bad. However I recently switched roms to MIUI and it seems to have some real problems there. Weird things like when a notification makes a sound it causes the current track to skip to the next and sometimes it will just randomly start playing. I assume it's just because I'm on a beta build, nothing I'd expect sindre to debug but now that I'm there the playlist thing is a real issue so I hope this feature can happen.

[Joshhsoj1902]

I'm also quite interested in a feature like this!

This is similar to this request (which i also like) viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9572

[Kono]

+1

[LemyDanger]

+1