DSub for Android

[wikke]

Daneren, is there a way to stop album art from downloading / caching? I have to clean it manually each time, after a while the folder grows pretty large.

Sent from my Nexus 4

[Menk79]

Hi! I've been using DSub for a long time and it's by far the best and most used app on my phone. However I have encountered a couple of minor problems. Firstly as of some time ago I'm no longer able to scrobble to Last.fm. Scrobbling works when I play a song in the Subsonic web-interface, but thru Dsub I get nothing in the Subsonic log. The strange thing is that scorbbling thru Dsub seems to work on my test server running 4.9, but not on my main server that is on 4.5. I have also tried to reinstall Dsub on my phone, but that didn't help.

I know what the problem is there. In one of the last updates I changed scrobbling to be on by default and check the server for whether or not the user has permissions. Subsonic sending the scrobble setting for the user wasn't added until Subsonic 4.6 though, and I didn't realize this before. It's a fairly simple fix. I just have to change scrobbling to default to true instead of false. Send me a email and I can send you a fixed version or you can wait until the next release for a fix.

I'm in no hurry, now that you have explained the cause I can wait for the next update.
How about that UI issue? If I look at the screenshots on Google Play there doesn't seem to be any overlap between the song title and the album art.

[daneren2005]

Hi! I've been using DSub for a long time and it's by far the best and most used app on my phone. However I have encountered a couple of minor problems. Firstly as of some time ago I'm no longer able to scrobble to Last.fm. Scrobbling works when I play a song in the Subsonic web-interface, but thru Dsub I get nothing in the Subsonic log. The strange thing is that scorbbling thru Dsub seems to work on my test server running 4.9, but not on my main server that is on 4.5. I have also tried to reinstall Dsub on my phone, but that didn't help.

I know what the problem is there. In one of the last updates I changed scrobbling to be on by default and check the server for whether or not the user has permissions. Subsonic sending the scrobble setting for the user wasn't added until Subsonic 4.6 though, and I didn't realize this before. It's a fairly simple fix. I just have to change scrobbling to default to true instead of false. Send me a email and I can send you a fixed version or you can wait until the next release for a fix.

I'm in no hurry, now that you have explained the cause I can wait for the next update.
How about that UI issue? If I look at the screenshots on Google Play there doesn't seem to be any overlap between the song title and the album art.

The Nexus 4 had the same issue and I had to change something only for them. I can do the same thing for yours as well, but I need to know which specific phone it was. IIRC, the S2 line was actually a bunch of different phones under the same brand name. Can you look under System Settings -> About Phone -> Model for me?

[Menk79]

The Nexus 4 had the same issue and I had to change something only for them. I can do the same thing for yours as well, but I need to know which specific phone it was. IIRC, the S2 line was actually a bunch of different phones under the same brand name. Can you look under System Settings -> About Phone -> Model for me?

Sure It's a "GT-I9100" as far as I know it is the original S2 model and it's not branded for a carrier.

[daneren2005]

Daneren, is there a way to stop album art from downloading / caching? I have to clean it manually each time, after a while the folder grows pretty large.

Sent from my Nexus 4

Is it really a problem? I mean, I know the folder grows large but the files themselves are pretty small. I looked in mine and without any manual pruning it's only 150 MB for ~1k album arts.

[Gamil]

Is there a way to sort podcasts by date?

I listen to a few podcasts, and they are important to listen in order, but the date isn't in the title. I don't get to listen every day as I'd like to, so I get a backlog and there's no quick easy way to know which aired first.

[daneren2005]

Is there a way to sort podcasts by date?

I listen to a few podcasts, and they are important to listen in order, but the date isn't in the title. I don't get to listen every day as I'd like to, so I get a backlog and there's no quick easy way to know which aired first.

1) They should be already.
2) The date is shown below the title (where the artist would be for a normal song).

Which podcast feeds are you listening to that don't have the date information populated?

[mitrailer]

Hi, It would be possible to create random playlist from one or more genres?, somethig like a radio functionality.

Thanks for the great app by the way.

[daneren2005]

Hi, It would be possible to create random playlist from one or more genres?, somethig like a radio functionality.

Thanks for the great app by the way.

Use the Shuffle button on the Home or Library tabs. It is limited to specifying one genre since that is what the API supports.

[HeWhoIsLunchbox]

Great job as always with the app. I especially love the fact that podcasts and long tracks are auto-bookmarked and the bookmarks work in playlists.

[daneren2005]

Great job as always with the app. I especially love the fact that podcasts and long tracks are auto-bookmarked and the bookmarks work in playlists.

Much appreciated! There is as always more in the works to make your lives easier!

[mitrailer]

Hi, It would be possible to create random playlist from one or more genres?, somethig like a radio functionality.

Thanks for the great app by the way.

Use the Shuffle button on the Home or Library tabs. It is limited to specifying one genre since that is what the API supports.

Ohhh!! thanks for the info. I will make a request for the two or more genres playlist in the API.

[williamkray]

I know that a couple of releases ago, the feature of adding automatic bookmarks for especially long songs (which would be podcasts and audiobooks, etc). was included... are there any special details about how these are supposed to work? I listen to quite a few podcasts, and when i check the bookmarks section i don't see any that have been created unless i make one manually. is dsub waiting for a particular piece of information to create a bookmark automagically that i'm not generating for it? I know that i have the persistent notification set, so perhaps it's not getting a kill signal that it's expecting?

this is a feature i've longed for for a long time, but i haven't figured out how to use it

[daneren2005]

I know that a couple of releases ago, the feature of adding automatic bookmarks for especially long songs (which would be podcasts and audiobooks, etc). was included... are there any special details about how these are supposed to work? I listen to quite a few podcasts, and when i check the bookmarks section i don't see any that have been created unless i make one manually. is dsub waiting for a particular piece of information to create a bookmark automagically that i'm not generating for it? I know that i have the persistent notification set, so perhaps it's not getting a kill signal that it's expecting?

this is a feature i've longed for for a long time, but i haven't figured out how to use it

Podcasts should definitely be auto bookmarked, but others include songs over 10 minutes, and songs with the genre of AudioBook. It only creates a bookmark if you are more than 5 seconds into it. It should be being created when you remove the podcast from play. Can you try playing a podcast from the Podcasts tab, seek to the middle of it, then use Remove All from the menu. It should create a bookmark automatically then. If it doesn't, what server are you using?

[williamkray]

Podcasts should definitely be auto bookmarked, but others include songs over 10 minutes, and songs with the genre of AudioBook. It only creates a bookmark if you are more than 5 seconds into it. It should be being created when you remove the podcast from play. Can you try playing a podcast from the Podcasts tab, seek to the middle of it, then use Remove All from the menu. It should create a bookmark automatically then. If it doesn't, what server are you using?

ah, got it. i suppose i haven't come across that particular situation just yet. thanks for clarifying, just tested and everything works like a charm!