play:Sub Music Streamer

play:Sub Music Streamer

Delightful Subsonic Client

433 ratings
280 reviews
$4.99
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Released
March 26, 2015
Updated
October 24, 2026

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Stream your self-hosted music library to various devices with customizable audio settings. Enjoy lossless playback, gapless transitions, and a powerful equalizer. Browse your collection by folders, artists, or albums, and cache music for offline listening.

✓Stream Subsonic-hosted music
✓Lossless and gapless playback
✓10-band customizable equalizer
✓Crossfade and replay gain
✓Browse by folder, artist, album
✓Offline caching of music
✓Supports multiple servers
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What's New in play

2026.10.24

October 24, 2026

AUTO SYNC, iPHONE DUO, WHAT'S NEW AUTO SYNC Keep the music you care about on your device, automatically. Auto Sync downloads or caches your starred songs, albums or artists, your newest albums, or any of your playlists - and keeps up as they change. Give each one a mode: Download keeps the music on your device until you remove it; Cache fetches it too, but lets it make room for other music. Auto Sync is off until you turn it on. Find it on the play:Sub tab, where Sync Now starts a run straight away. iPHONE DUO Folded, unfolded or side by side in two-up multitasking, play:Sub is up for it. WHAT'S NEW The play:Sub tab now tells you what is new since the version you last used, with a badge until you have had a look. AND THE REST ● New: The Audio Visualizer can have a tab of its own. Add it in the Tab Bar settings. ● Fixed: Background downloads are more reliable. ● Various other bugfixes and improvements. For feature requests or issues: please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback), or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk

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$99.99

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This app dropped -1 position in Music chart.

Last updated on November 5, 2026.

User reviews

非常差

体验非常差,bug,无法正常使用,还不退款

So close to being my choice Subsonic client but one key feature lacking

Love this player for Subsonic, I’ve tried pretty much all of them at this point. However I have to choose an alternative for one main reason: the inability to select multiple music folders as the source for music. By folders I don’t mean folders on the drive (love the actual folder browsing capability it has), but what this app refers to as “Media Filters” (top middle of the app) which are the groupings you have setup in your Subsonic server. In other clients that have this ability you can select multiple of them. I have groupings like Lossy > Bootlegs, Lossy > Studio, Lossless > Studio, Lossy > Unreleased. This kind of setup is awesome because for example a lot of time I will want not want all the bootlegs cluttering up my albums list, or maybe I want to rule out low quality unreleased tracks but still listen to both Lossless and Lossy studio albums. This is very easy and nice when you can select multiple of them but for some reason it seems like you can only select one at a time in this app, making it impossible to get the selection of source groupings I need. Otherwise a great app, maybe not the cleanest UI compared to others but it has so many cool things like the visualizer and granular transcoding settings. Great app, so if the filters thing isn’t an issue for you l, give it a try.
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Response from developer

Update: Multiple media folders may now be filtered simultaneously. Thank you for this review, and for trying play:Sub. I'm glad the visualizer, the transcoding settings and folder browsing are working well for you. You're right about Media Filters. Being able to pick only one Media Folder at a time gets in the way of a setup like yours. Your description of your groupings made the use case very clear. Good news: selecting any combination of Media Folders in the Media Filter is coming in an update later this year. Thanks again, and happy listening! Michael

Few areas for improvement, but best streamer I’ve tried on iPhone

I think interface of this app is a little overcomplicated and could be simplified to something more user friendly, though I’d love to see more customization settings so I can configure it myself to my liking. Sometimes all I want is to hit single giant button and get random music from my library.

I really like live lyrics in modern music apps and it’s great that we get lyrics displayed in this app, but I believe there should be a way to make it live so it highlights a line as it goes.
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Tolle App

Läuft flüssig und performant. Hübsche Optik. Stabil. Hat in Summe die meisten Features. Nur ein eichtiges Feature fehlt leider: bei ausgeschaltetem Screen spielt er keine Musik mehr ab.

Play:Sub and Navidrome together is king

I have tried three different players to work with Navidrome and this one blows them all out of the water. More features I never thought would make this smoother to use. Worth every penny.

User experience

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Reported Bugs

4 issues

Songs not playing properly

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Library desyncing issues

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Freezing during database sync

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Inconsistent behavior when switching networks

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Requested Features

5 requests

Repeat single track option

Feature

Automatic theme switching

Feature

Batch download/caching

Feature

Apple Watch support

Feature

Improved CarPlay experience

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FAQ

What is this app?

This app is a client for streaming music hosted on a Subsonic server. It allows you to access and play your personal music library on your iOS device, CarPlay, Chromecast, or other compatible players. You can enjoy your music anywhere, anytime, with customizable audio quality.

What are the key audio features?

The app supports playback of most audio formats, including FLAC and MP3, with lossless and gapless playback. It features a 10-band customizable equalizer with presets, crossfading between tracks, and replay gain for an optimized listening experience. High-resolution audio up to 24bit/192kHz is also supported.

How does offline listening work?

The app automatically caches played songs and allows you to manually cache individual songs, folders, artists, or entire albums. This ensures you can listen to your music even when your internet connectivity is poor or unavailable.

What servers are compatible?

The app is compatible with Subsonic servers version 4.8 and above, as well as other compatible servers like AirSonic, Ampache, Madsonic, Funkwhale, Libresonic, and Navidrome. It supports multiple servers and allows for easy switching between them.

Is this app free?

The app is free to download and use with in-app purchases. While the core streaming functionality is available, certain features or enhancements might require an in-app purchase.