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
• [X] enqueue next track
• [ ] enqueue row in starred list
• [ ] enqueue row in playlist
• [X] fix blinking in album when selecting different song
• [X] fix intermediate render with blank coverart on artist page
• [X] sort starred by most recently added
• [X] fix package naming
• [X] crash reporting
• [ ] shuffle mode
• [ ] search functionality
• [ ] pull-to-refresh on playlist view
• [ ] pull-to-refresh on starred list
  • [X] 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

• [X] Browsing content
• [X] Audio playback
• [X] Starred songs
• [X] Media players support (lock screens)
  • [X] Android
  • [X] ios
• [X] A nice, smooth interface
• [X] Make play queue actually work in all contexts
  • [X] Play a song in album with queue
  • [X] Play a song from starred with queue
• [X] Scrobble plays to Subsonic api
• [ ] Airplay
• [ ] Shuffle modes
• [ ] Loop modes
• [ ] Offline support
  • [X] Play music from cache
  • [X] 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
  • [X] 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:

• [X] Playback support
• [X] Media players support (lock screens) for Android
• [X] Media players support (lock screens) for ios
• [X] Queue support
  • [X] a play queue
  • [ ] view queue
  • [ ] edit queue?
• [X] cache artwork
• [X] download files
• [] cache files
  • [X] 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
• [X] link from album back to artist
• [ ] playlists
  • [X] playlist api
  • [X] playlist listing
  • [ ] new homescreen with
    • [X] recent albums
    • [ ] recent playlists
    • [X] starred songs
• [ ] Album page: Star button in song list?
• [ ] Album page: summary in bottom of song list?
• [ ] Album page: play button?
• [X] Album page: play on click
• [X] Album page: Slide to enqueue
• [ ] Artist page: play button
• [ ] Search
  • [ ] search page
  • [X] search query
  • [X] search button in bottom bar
• [ ] Song meta: add information about cache state (whether we have the file already downloaded)
• [ ] local cache:
  • [X] artist data
  • [X] album data
  • [X] song data
  • [X] starred data
  • [X] playlist data
  • [X] 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