Thumper -- A native OS X client for Subsonic

[Thumper]

Thumper v1.2 is available in the Mac App Store. Check it out!


- Feature: Added support for adding an entire album to the current playlist
- Feature: Added Random, Newest, Highest Rated, Most Frequent, and Recently Played album lists
- Feature: Added Graphical buttons for Repeat, Repeat All, and Shuffle
- Feature: Added Smart Playlists -- random playlists filtered by criteria(Genre, Year)
- Feature: Now playing support -- see what other users are listening to
- Feature: New version notifier -- get an alert when a new application is available
- Feature: Single folder level support (Artist-Album/Songs.mp3) added.
- Bug fix: Sometimes random songs would get skipped in a playlist
- Bug fix: Search's double click to add to the current playlist didn't work right

[dcuellar]

Any plans to add video support?

[Thumper]

Any plans to add video support?

I do not currently have plans to add video support any time soon. I don't use Subsonic for video personally, and I haven't seen a huge demand for it from the few users I've heard from. I'll definitely make sure it is on the possible feature list though, thanks for voicing your opinion!

[Thumper]

Version 1.2.1 has been released in the App store.

Thumper 1.2.1 - July 7, 2011

- Feature: Updated UI to be cleaner
- Bug fix: Clear current playlist when switching servers
- Bug fix: Changing between artists and quick playlists didn't work right
- Bug fix: Changing between playlists and smart playlists didn't work right

[lordzurp]

Hello !
new user of Thumper, I have a little thing to add to the wishlist : support of directory structure : /genre/artist/album
seem great for organise large song library

thanx for your job !

Ti nicO

[thread]

Thumper looks really nice!

Just a point of clarification... am I understanding that if the Subsonic server is set to transcode files on the fly before sending them to the client, they won't play with Thumper? I have to ask because this doesn't make sense to me as that transcoding step happens on the server... (Why should the client care?)

I just might have to spring the $10 if I have the options of streaming full FLAC from my Subsonic server, so +1 to that feature request!

Thanks for building this app, Daniel.

[Thumper]

Thumper looks really nice!

Just a point of clarification... am I understanding that if the Subsonic server is set to transcode files on the fly before sending them to the client, they won't play with Thumper? I have to ask because this doesn't make sense to me as that transcoding step happens on the server... (Why should the client care?)

I just might have to spring the $10 if I have the options of streaming full FLAC from my Subsonic server, so +1 to that feature request!

Thanks for building this app, Daniel.

Hi there,

Yes, you're correct, transcoding on the server is not supported by Thumper. This is because the server does not provide the total length of the audio stream when it is transcoded, and none of the native OS X API's support this.

FLAC support is not currently supported either at this time.

Thanks for your interest.

Daniel

[Fightmong]

Forgive my paranoia but is Thumper still undergoing development? I'd hate to see it die off after just purchasing it!

[Thumper]

Forgive my paranoia but is Thumper still undergoing development? I'd hate to see it die off after just purchasing it!

Yes, it is still under development. Version 1.3.0 is currently in the App Store Review process, I hope it will be released soon.

[emjayoh]

I probably should have looked, but I purchased this application thinking that it would support FLAC.

I appreciate the time/effort put into this application, but if you are going to charge $10 for a BETA version of an application that doesn't even play .flac files, then I think you should make that abundantly clear on all of your "advertisements". I also find it strange that you do not own at least .flac or .wav file... nor do you care enough to convert one of your files to test for a requesting customer-base. My entire library is .flac and I intend to keep it that way; I guess I wasted $10.

[Thumper]

I probably should have looked, but I purchased this application thinking that it would support FLAC.

I appreciate the time/effort put into this application, but if you are going to charge $10 for a BETA version of an application that doesn't even play .flac files, then I think you should make that abundantly clear on all of your "advertisements". I also find it strange that you do not own at least .flac or .wav file... nor do you care enough to convert one of your files to test for a requesting customer-base. My entire library is .flac and I intend to keep it that way; I guess I wasted $10.

Emjayoh,

I apologize that you weren't able to get Thumper to work for you. Thumper will play any audio format that you can play though Quicktime on your Mac. The stipulations being that 1)Quicktime needs to be able to play the file format and 2) Since Thumper doesn't support downsampling/transcoding, the file needs to be small enough for Thumper to download unmodified. Where FLAC/WAV files tend to be very large, this doesn't work well over the Internet.

I'll make sure to add these comments to my FAQ.

[emjayoh]

Thanks for your response.

Please don't take offense, but saying that "flac and wav don't stream well over the internet" is quite ridiculous.

I am able to stream .wav files flawlessly over 3g phone connections while I'm travelling all over the world on my iPhone/Droid. My family streams lossless audio from my Subsonic all over the world.

No one should be compressing music anymore, it's a dying trend (for good reason). MP3s exist because hard drive space used to be an issue. We now have 200GB ipods and 4TB hard drives... the only reason I'm using Subsonic is because all the alternatives (Google Music) force me into MP3.

So, is there something the iPhone can do that a Mac can't? I'm able to stream all my lossless audio over a shitty 3g connection just fine. Why can't I do this on my Mac?

[sp0nge]

It's simple he gave you the explanation already, Thumper does not support downsampling/transcoding. It works with your apple mobile because the application that you are using there does as it seems support downsampling/transcoding.

Dunno if you are aware of it but in the end you do not listen to lossless music via your apple mobile since it is converted into mp3, thus you are listening to an mp3 in the end This is because space isn't the bottleneck anymore but bandwidth is.

[emjayoh]

It's simple he gave you the explanation already, Thumper does not support downsampling/transcoding. It works with your apple mobile because the application that you are using there does as it seems support downsampling/transcoding.

Dunno if you are aware of it but in the end you do not listen to lossless music via your apple mobile since it is converted into mp3, thus you are listening to an mp3 in the end This is because space isn't the bottleneck anymore but bandwidth is.

That's not an explanation, but OK. It works with my apple mobile application (z-subsonic) fully lossless. I've verified this on the server end as I'm streaming (+ I can hear the difference between mp3s/wavs pretty easily).

What don't you understand?

My point here is that he says it's "not possible"... when I can clearly do this from an iphone (which should have the same/less capability than a desktop application).

I have very good bandwidth in San Diego using Verizon 3g. Don't know where you live....

[sp0nge]

If you specifically disabled downsampling in the subsonic server and really a flac file is reaching your client application get a flac plugin for quicktime. By using google you can find lots of them for example this http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html one.