The Best
What a fabulous and easy to use piece of software MusicStreamer is! I’ve been looking for something this good for a long time. Thank you.
Hi-res secret sauce
Apps from Stratospherix are highly valued in my stack. MusicStreamer is one of them. I do recommend this app. Notable suprising features I admired: music visualiser effect. Latest version regression bugs: the latest version introduced a cosmetic UI issue where the track count is truncated if you have more than 999 tracks (the track count doesn't fit and gets truncated; this happens due to the change of "Create Playlist" button having margin overflowing the track count in the main UI screen).
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Great!
With sleep timer, I’d also like the ability to stop after current track. I use this for ebooks as well as music. Thanks.
Returned to use and found better than ever
I stopped using the app as my NAS became inaccessible after an upgrade but all is fine now. This is so simple to use compared to Apple Music and Remote.
Great music player
Used this for years - like the layout and deals with my 3500 tracks on USB stick really well. Wav. Files so high quality.
Super, aber noch Potenzial
Ich habe verschiedene Apps ausprobiert, um meine mp3-Dateien zu streamen, und diese hier hat am besten funktioniert und mir auch optisch am besten gefallen. Sehr cooles Feature, dass sich die UI-Farbe personalisieren lässt! Ein paar Dinge sind mir aber noch aufgefallen, die in zukünftigen Updates hoffentlich noch verbessert werden:
- Wenn ich eine Playlist umbenenne, stürzt die App ab.
- Es gab zwischendurch auch einen Absturz, den ich keinem klaren Grund zuordnen konnte.
- Die Warteschlange ist teilweise etwas seltsam, manchmal habe ich plötzlich denselben Track 10 mal in der Warteschlange.
- Ich hätte gern ein Feature wie in anderen Apps, dass ich eine Playlist/ein Album bei irgendeinem Track starten kann, indem ich auf den Track tippe, und von da aus das Album automatisch weiterläuft.
- Ordner und personalisierbare Coverbilder für Playlists wären der Hammer.
Ansonsten wirklich toll!
- Wenn ich eine Playlist umbenenne, stürzt die App ab.
- Es gab zwischendurch auch einen Absturz, den ich keinem klaren Grund zuordnen konnte.
- Die Warteschlange ist teilweise etwas seltsam, manchmal habe ich plötzlich denselben Track 10 mal in der Warteschlange.
- Ich hätte gern ein Feature wie in anderen Apps, dass ich eine Playlist/ein Album bei irgendeinem Track starten kann, indem ich auf den Track tippe, und von da aus das Album automatisch weiterläuft.
- Ordner und personalisierbare Coverbilder für Playlists wären der Hammer.
Ansonsten wirklich toll!
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Really impressed
The interface works in a slightly different way to how I expected, but stick with it. It really does everything you need for Nas / local music.
The Best
Possibly the best FLAC streaming app I have ever encountered. 5 Stars.
The one you need
Just simply works great at home. No fuss. This is how you design a good app. Ideas: Option to “add and shuffle to play queue” artist or album would be nice. A watch app for offline runs would also be swell!
Can stream my pc music easily
Really good for my use case, pretty albums too
Update lock screen pauses playback on iPad
Update lock screen pauses playback on iPad
The best - hands down!
I got tired of trying to get Apple’s Music app to play music (ALAC) stored on my NAS. The Mac was fine, but getting it to stream from my iPhone was flaky at best. Having looked at several apps that could handle streaming from a NAS, I chanced upon MusicStreamer and haven’t looked back. It has a well-thought out interface, is feature rich but this doesn’t get in the way of using the app. A huge plus is being able to point the app to my local NAS, iCloud storage, downloaded storage or from a USB. My music library, now FLAC, works well, as do the meta tags and album covers. MusicStreamer is a great solution to a long running problem of how to stream my music library at home or on the move.
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Can’t EQ with gapless playback
I see that other players are able to EQ and maintain gapless playback. Any plans to address that in this player? It’s a real bummer for albums that aren’t meant to have silent gaps between tracks.
Airplay has stoped working
After iOS update the AirPlay functionality has stopped working
Awesome
My favourite app by far! A few glitches in the latest version related to editing the playlist which I expect will be fixed in the next revision.
Crashes
Everytime I choose to play all albums now it crashes. That’s all I paid the app for. And it doesn’t do it Free one doesn’t crash
Stuck on Apple Car play
Very good apps but after latest update get stuck on Apple car play. Please fix.
Perfect for My Use
I have a NAS that holds my extensive music library across multiple genres, decades, and artists. MusicStreamer connects seamlessly to my NAS and stays connected. I can connect to my Yamaha amp, my Sonos speakers, even my TV. I can play across those devices all together or one at a time. I get no drops, no static, no issues in playback. I play an album start to finish or I can create playlists of my favorites tunes. I can shuffle or repeat play. All my cover art is shown as stored. Oh, did I mention support? They have amazing support and respect my specific needs. Absolutely love this app for in home streaming from my NAS. Totally recommend it!
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Spot on!
When they say "Rediscover your music!" they are not wrong! Fantastic app! Keep up the excellent work! Software *can* be well done.
Je revois mon avis en bien, mais !
8 mois plus tard, rien n'a évolué... 🤬
Édit 2025-07 : pourquoi, l’iPad connecté en partage de connexion sur l’iPhone, clé USB contenant la musique connectée sur l’iPad, impossible de lire la musique. Déconnecté de l’iPhone, musique lisible…
Édit 2025-03 : Après avoir abandonné cette application pendant des années, j’ai pris plusieurs jours pour la (re) découvrir, et je reviens sur mon avis précédent. Les défauts que j’avais notés ne sont plus présents, je peux lire les musiques depuis mon NAS sans aucun problème.
L’application est stable, plus de « freeze » ou de plantage. Tout fonctionne bien avec Siri.
Je pense maintenant acheter la version Mac.
Serait-il possible de synchroniser les Playlists automatiquement ? Plutôt que de devoir le faire manuellement pour chaque Playlist à chaque fois qu’on la modifie.
Pouvoir mettre un « Like » sur un morceau pour le retrouver dans une playlist « Like » serait bien aussi.
Édit 2025-07 : pourquoi, l’iPad connecté en partage de connexion sur l’iPhone, clé USB contenant la musique connectée sur l’iPad, impossible de lire la musique. Déconnecté de l’iPhone, musique lisible…
Édit 2025-03 : Après avoir abandonné cette application pendant des années, j’ai pris plusieurs jours pour la (re) découvrir, et je reviens sur mon avis précédent. Les défauts que j’avais notés ne sont plus présents, je peux lire les musiques depuis mon NAS sans aucun problème.
L’application est stable, plus de « freeze » ou de plantage. Tout fonctionne bien avec Siri.
Je pense maintenant acheter la version Mac.
Serait-il possible de synchroniser les Playlists automatiquement ? Plutôt que de devoir le faire manuellement pour chaque Playlist à chaque fois qu’on la modifie.
Pouvoir mettre un « Like » sur un morceau pour le retrouver dans une playlist « Like » serait bien aussi.
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Response from developer
Thank you for your update! I have made a note in our system about play lists. If you have any questions then please email support@stratospherix.com and we will be pleased to help.
Provides great functionality with great support
TL/DR: I want to be able to play my music I’ve ripped to my NAS when I’m away from home. This provides that functionality. Not perfect (yet) but really good, with great support.
I’d tried various other apps but they were unable to scan more than ~5 albums before giving up and even then scanning was very slow (solution: scan library on desktop then transfer to device 😬). I have a few hundred albums.
I bought MediaStreamer, configured it to read my library and started a scan (entire library 5-10 mins?).
The albums were shown in a different order from my Sonos environment (the less said about Sonos the better!) which threw me initially, so I contacted support and after a couple of exchanges, I had an explanation and a solution. Currently the app doesn’t use (any?) embedded metadata in the files for the sorting/naming but the developers are working on that. TBH, this isn’t a problem for me now I know how it works - a few legacy inconsistencies in my library, mainly around my classical music albums.
My environment is a little different to a lot of users I think - I use Tailscale rather than Synology quickconnect for remote access - but that’s manageable.
This app provides me with access to my music remotely, it’s very usable and I’m confident it’ll continue to improve. Give it a go.
Update: new version of the app now does use file metadata so now my albums are in the order I was expecting. Really pleased, upgraded rating (4->5).
I’d tried various other apps but they were unable to scan more than ~5 albums before giving up and even then scanning was very slow (solution: scan library on desktop then transfer to device 😬). I have a few hundred albums.
I bought MediaStreamer, configured it to read my library and started a scan (entire library 5-10 mins?).
The albums were shown in a different order from my Sonos environment (the less said about Sonos the better!) which threw me initially, so I contacted support and after a couple of exchanges, I had an explanation and a solution. Currently the app doesn’t use (any?) embedded metadata in the files for the sorting/naming but the developers are working on that. TBH, this isn’t a problem for me now I know how it works - a few legacy inconsistencies in my library, mainly around my classical music albums.
My environment is a little different to a lot of users I think - I use Tailscale rather than Synology quickconnect for remote access - but that’s manageable.
This app provides me with access to my music remotely, it’s very usable and I’m confident it’ll continue to improve. Give it a go.
Update: new version of the app now does use file metadata so now my albums are in the order I was expecting. Really pleased, upgraded rating (4->5).
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