DSub for Android

[Zooey22]

Is it possible to stream through Bluetooth? If so, how?

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If your phone supports it then yes of course you can. If you know how to set up your bluetooth devices, after that it streams whatever is playing on your phone. I have been rocking the bose soundock at work on Dsub through my Evo V.
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[mr_nobody]

Have done some further sleep timer testing. It seems that if you set the timer and start playing a song, it starts the sleep timer as you say. So if you set it for 1 minute, it will pause the song which is good. However, it seems once the player moves on to a second song, the sleep timer is stopped. So for example, if I set it for 5 minutes and start playing a song that is less than 5 minutes, once the player moves on to the second song, the player will never pause itself.

[Slate8]

I can't download or cache files since the recent update (v3.4.1).

I select some tracks, choose download & it says they are scheduled for download, then nothing. No feedback in the browser. If I go to the player and through the fiddly process of getting the download queue up I can see the files I chose but nothing is happening.

As a side note, I'd really like some feedback on downloading in the file browser as often I do this before I head out so need to know if it's done.

Anyone else getting this issue? I am on a Galaxy Nexus running Jelly Bean 4.1.2

Thanks

[BrewDude]

Having the same problem as Slate8 on Nexus 7 with Jelly Bean 4.1.2. Actually its probably not a problem I just don't get whats going on. Everything I select for either caching or downloading just says scheduled. When does it actually do the caching or downloading? How is selecting a bunch of songs to play and having them cache any different than selecting them and selecting cache from the menu? I hope I'm not being dense but maybe a little explanation on the cache and downloading options would help. Thanks.

[daneren2005]

Hmm I'm not exactly certain what you guys are doing differently then. I just now went in to a random album, selected two songs, then queued them up for download. After waiting a second they started downloading and were showing that they were downloading just like if they had been added to now playing.

Some notes on how this is supposed to work: Background downloading takes the back seat when something is in the now playing list which can be downloaded. So if you go to now playing and something is already downloading then nothing will start downloading in the background until after those are done. For example, I just now went in and put played 5 uncached songs with my settings set to only preload 3. Immediately after I set 2 additional songs to download. Sitting there watching it the first 3 songs in the now playing list were downloaded, and then after that it moved to work on the 2 background downloaded songs. Everything appeared to work correctly. Do you guys have a set of steps I can follow where it does not work correctly?

[daneren2005]

Have done some further sleep timer testing. It seems that if you set the timer and start playing a song, it starts the sleep timer as you say. So if you set it for 1 minute, it will pause the song which is good. However, it seems once the player moves on to a second song, the sleep timer is stopped. So for example, if I set it for 5 minutes and start playing a song that is less than 5 minutes, once the player moves on to the second song, the player will never pause itself.

Yah I'm thinking I should have spent some more time looking at the timer to make sure it worked correctly. Sorry I'll try to get an update that makes it work in the next day or two.

[Slate8]

Hmm I'm not exactly certain what you guys are doing differently then. I just now went in to a random album, selected two songs, then queued them up for download. After waiting a second they started downloading and were showing that they were downloading just like if they had been added to now playing.

Some notes on how this is supposed to work: Background downloading takes the back seat when something is in the now playing list which can be downloaded. So if you go to now playing and something is already downloading then nothing will start downloading in the background until after those are done. For example, I just now went in and put played 5 uncached songs with my settings set to only preload 3. Immediately after I set 2 additional songs to download. Sitting there watching it the first 3 songs in the now playing list were downloaded, and then after that it moved to work on the 2 background downloaded songs. Everything appeared to work correctly. Do you guys have a set of steps I can follow where it does not work correctly?

Thanks for the info. I was trying to download exactly as you describe. The weird thing is I just tried it again now and it's working fine. I'm not doing anything differently. I'll try and get it to happen again and post details on how to recreate if I do.

Just quickly, can you explain the difference between caching and downloading?

Thanks as always for being so responsive!

[BrewDude]

I guess my only question now is do you have to have something playing in the now playing list for this to work? I can't just select all the songs from an album and have them cache or download? I'm also curious to know the difference between cache and download. It works for me now too as long as something is playing in the now playing list. Is this feature not for the purpose of caching a few albums quickly so they can be played back in offline mode later. I also want to say thanks for the response and thanks for taking this app to the next level. I truly love it.

[daneren2005]

I guess my only question now is do you have to have something playing in the now playing list for this to work? I can't just select all the songs from an album and have them cache or download? I'm also curious to know the difference between cache and download. It works for me now too as long as something is playing in the now playing list. Is this feature not for the purpose of caching a few albums quickly so they can be played back in offline mode later. I also want to say thanks for the response and thanks for taking this app to the next level. I truly love it.

The difference between download and cache would be the difference in subsonic between just adding a song to now playing and it downloading, and using the pin method. Cache just appears to not let it be deleted when you run out of room and need to make room for new stuff (I could be wrong on that, I haven't used pinning too much or looked too much at the code). It might have been an oversight of mine that you have to have something in the now playing list for it to work. I will look into it and fix it if that is the case.

[BrewDude]

Your explanation of the difference between caching and downloading makes sense. From what I remember from the old app when songs were cached they would have a yellow astric next to them and when they were pinned they had a green astric next to them. The caching and downloading in DSub work the same way for me.

[mr_nobody]

One additional bit of info re: the sleep timer. I set it to always on just to see if it would kick in at some point. I was playing a very long playlist, well beyond the length of the sleep timer. At some point, I got up to start a different playlist. Pretty much as soon as I touched dsub, all of a sudden _another player on my device_ (songbird) started playing music at the same time as dsub. The only other time this has happened was when I was testing sleep timer apps from the play store. I don't have all the details but there are different levels of play/pause signals you can send. If you send too broad a one, it can affect other apps on the device. So rather than sending a global play/pause (all) signal, you want to make sure it is only going to affect dsub.

[daneren2005]

One additional bit of info re: the sleep timer. I set it to always on just to see if it would kick in at some point. I was playing a very long playlist, well beyond the length of the sleep timer. At some point, I got up to start a different playlist. Pretty much as soon as I touched dsub, all of a sudden _another player on my device_ (songbird) started playing music at the same time as dsub. The only other time this has happened was when I was testing sleep timer apps from the play store. I don't have all the details but there are different levels of play/pause signals you can send. If you send too broad a one, it can affect other apps on the device. So rather than sending a global play/pause (all) signal, you want to make sure it is only going to affect dsub.

The timer itself just calls the same pause function which pressing the pause button calls, so the timer itself shouldn't have caused any new issues. I've actually had a problem with this in the past with Pandora starting up Subsonic and I'm wondering if this might be linked to some people's lockscreens having dsub even after they weren't using it. I'll have to look more into it and see if maybe the player is sending/receiving signals too broadly.

[NiteFlame]

I discovered this app today on Google Play while searching for some Subsonic "native" app alternatives. Unfortunately, I had to find out that one of my most desired features is not available within DSub, too. But maybe there's a chance You will add it .

It would be awesome to have a possibility to decide which folders are part of the shuffle play mode and which are not. It is such a pain in the a** when the app tries to play content from my movies folder or when audio books are mixed into music. So, please, please, please...!

[shadow.8]

I discovered this app today on Google Play while searching for some Subsonic "native" app alternatives. Unfortunately, I had to find out that one of my most desired features is not available within DSub, too. But maybe there's a chance You will add it .

It would be awesome to have a possibility to decide which folders are part of the shuffle play mode and which are not. It is such a pain in the a** when the app tries to play content from my movies folder or when audio books are mixed into music. So, please, please, please...!

This is a great idea. In the past I've tried to create playlists that I can then shuffle but it's not a great solution. It would be great to have an option to include or exclude certain folders.

[dewd]

It still has the problem of not muting or ducking the music when the navigation is giving directions, at least in JB and ICS also had this bug with the subsonic app.

Anyway this could be fixed?

Also i can't resize the widget

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Hmm I thought it did that automatically but I'll take a look into it. And the widget should be fixed soon.

Any progress on this? I've resorted to using PowerAmp as it seems to be the only way to play high quality music (FLAC) and use Google Navigation at the same time. If you could fix this I'd buy your app in a heartbeat.

Here's more info on the problem: http://developer.android.com/reference/ ... nager.html