subsound

A subsonic music player.

Screenshots

Release todo

• fix random breakage of player sometimes. seems like onStart is not working after background player task crashes
• enqueue next track
• enqueue row in starred list
• enqueue row in playlist
• fix blinking in album when selecting different song
• fix intermediate render with blank coverart on artist page
• sort starred by most recently added
• fix package naming
• crash reporting
• shuffle mode
• search functionality
• pull-to-refresh on playlist view
• pull-to-refresh on starred list
  • artists/albums? no, don't need that because they don't really mutate/update.
• find an app icon
  • android
  • ios
• Play Store
  • app icon 512x512px
  • graphics feature: 1024x500px image
• App Store
  • ???

Goals

• Browsing content
• Audio playback
• Starred songs
• Media players support (lock screens)
  • Android
  • ios
• A nice, smooth interface
• Make play queue actually work in all contexts
  • Play a song in album with queue
  • Play a song from starred with queue
• Scrobble plays to Subsonic api
• Airplay
• Shuffle modes
• Loop modes
• Offline support
  • Play music from cache
  • Browse data without loading live from API only
  • deliver artwork to system notification from cache (file)
  • Sync content for local access in database
  • Store metadata persistently for offline mode
  • Selective caching
  • Store scrobbles offline and submit at a later time

Possible goals:

• Chromecast
• Support other servers than Subsonic compatible APIs
• Linux
• Transcoding when needed/wanted

Non-goals:

• Video support
• EQ/Gain
• Jukebox support/remote playing

TODO:

• Playback support
• Media players support (lock screens) for Android
• Media players support (lock screens) for ios
• Queue support
  • a play queue
  • view queue
  • edit queue?
• cache artwork
• download files
• [] cache files
  • partial, should cache files now, but the user has no control over this
  • cache artwork for system notification. have to deliver a file:/// to the system notification so it does not load the artwork over the network
• link from album back to artist
• playlists
  • playlist api
  • playlist listing
  • new homescreen with
    • recent albums
    • recent playlists
    • starred songs
• Album page: Star button in song list?
• Album page: summary in bottom of song list?
• Album page: play button?
• Album page: play on click
• Album page: Slide to enqueue
• Artist page: play button
• Search
  • search page
  • search query
  • search button in bottom bar
• Song meta: add information about cache state (whether we have the file already downloaded)
• local cache:
  • artist data
  • album data
  • song data
  • starred data
  • playlist data
  • search query results
• Setup sqlite database + migrations
  • Store artist index in sqlite db for offline use
• persistent cache (offline mode):
  • artist data
  • album data
  • song data
  • starred data
  • playlist data
• Make it work offline
  • Download starred?
  • store artwork persistent locally
  • store files persistent locally
  • store metadata persistent locally in database (as part of a full metadata sync?)

UX ideas

• slide animation in player when skipping next/prev song

Eventually

• Album page: save button
• Artist page: save button