AVSub vs Drac's Jukebox

AVSub is a fully featured, multi-language music and video streaming (after in-app purchase) app for SubSonic. With multi-format (including FLAC) support, quick & easy browsing, caching for offline listening or viewing, playlist support and a great user interface, accessing your media is fast and simple. With full Bluetooth Audio, Apple Watch, CarPlay, Chromecast & Airplay support too, you can have your media with you anywhere, anytime. Connect AVSub to your licensed SubSonic server and you'll have access to your entire media collection. AVSub supports any audio format that SubSonic supports and SSL. AVSub's user interface is familiar and easy to use. Optimized views for both portrait & landscape orientations make the most of your device. AVSub has full Bluetooth Audio support - stream to any Bluetooth device (car stereo, amplifier, speaker, headphones) with superb quality. Bluetooth remote-control is fully supported. AVSub also fully suports CarPlay. The AVSub Apple Watch extension is the easiest way to get your Subsonic playlists and cached albums onto your watch. The extension supports full background playback. You can take your music with you even without your phone! AVSub supports offline caching so you can listen to your music or watch video even when you're not connected to the Internet. AVSub will intelligently cache what you listen to in the background, or you can choose to download tracks, albums or videos direct to the cache for quick pre-loading. Cache size is configurable, along with options such as cache reading & writing and the ability to control direct-downloading over a mobile/cellular network. AVSub supports Subsonic playlists and will intelligently cache tracks on your device. AVSub can be used on both WiFi or a mobile/cellular connection (3G/4G/5G). Audio caching ensure smoother playback. AVSub shows enhanced information for your media, recognising movies, TV, artists and giving bio information, top tracks and similar artists. With AVSub you can access your full media library by browsing, selecting from the most recently added, most recently played, most frequently played or highest rated tracks, or search over your entire library. AVSub also supports multiple SubSonic top-level music folders, allowing you to select an individual top-level folder, or your entire collection. You can browse by folder structure or ID3 tags. AVSub Features: - Universal app for iPhone & iPad - MP3/AAC/FLAC/MP4/ALAC/Vorbis/Opus/WAV/DSD - High-resolution digital audio output via CCK up to 24bit/192kHz - CarPlay - TMDb integration for full movie & TV posters and details - VLC integration - 10 band Equaliser - Mini player - AVCast support - Google Cast audio and video (after in-app purchase) - Supports all modern video codecs - Portrait and landscape - Video streaming with caching (in-app purchase) - Subsonic Jukebox (in-app purchase) - Home screen & Notification center widget with recent items - 3D Touch quick action shortcuts - Internet radio - Crossfade - SSL support, including self-signed certificates - Caching for all media - Folder & ID3 mode - Multi-disc album support - Artist Radio/Similar Songs - Intelligent Bookmarks - Podcasts - Gapless playback - Track seeking - Subsonic playlist support - Streams over 3G/4G/5G/WiFi - Maximum streaming bitrate control - Bluetooth Audio/Airplay support - Remembers your playlist from the last session - Streams from any licensed SubSonic server (v4.0 and up) - Browse/search music collection - Browse most recently added, recently played, frequently played, highest rated - Random albums/songs - Shuffle and repeat - Album cover art - Lock-screen integration - Documentation & guides available at the AVSub website

Drac's Jukebox is a native app for the music on your Navidrome, Gonic, Airsonic or other OpenSubsonic server. Play lossless, gapless music with synced lyrics, add a Jellyfin server for movies and shows in 4K HDR, and download anything for offline. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV and CarPlay. See every feature at dracsjukebox.com Requires access to an OpenSubsonic-compatible server and account. No media or hosting service is included. Supporter is optional, as a subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase, and adds extras like Apple Watch direct playback and downloads, custom Personalization profiles, EQ and Smart Mix rules, Party Mode hosting and more. Lifetime adds exclusive gold theming. --- MUSIC THAT SOUNDS RIGHT Lossless FLAC, gapless playback, crossfade, volume normalization, surround sound and object-based spatial audio. A 16-band EQ with genre profiles and a live visualizer. LYRICS Karaoke-style synced lyrics follow every scrub and skip. Tap any line to jump there. DOWNLOADS & OFFLINE Download albums, artists, songs or episodes in one tap, at original quality or a smaller size. When you lose signal, downloads keep playing automatically. Separate Wi-Fi and cellular quality settings. EVERY DEVICE CarPlay: browse and play your library, downloads included. Apple Watch: a remote, or for Supporters, a full player with downloads. Apple TV: your library on the big screen. Remote Control: run the queue on one device from any of your others. DISCOVER Fresh Daily Mixes each day and new releases from artists in your library, all made privately on your device. Chat with Drac for something to play on devices with Apple Intelligence, and request albums you find through your Seerr server. SMART MIX & QUICK PLAY One tap for Quick Play, or turn on Infinity in the queue for endless playback. Build playlists from your library by decade, genre, favorites and more. MAKE IT YOURS Match the player to each album's artwork or pick your own accent, light or dark. Choose a player style, artwork size, animated background and swipe gestures, or apply a built-in profile in one tap. Supporters save their own profiles and switch them automatically by time of day, Focus or CarPlay. PODCASTS, AUDIOBOOKS & RADIO Subscribe to public podcasts (Supporters: download episodes). Audiobooks with chapters, bookmarks and resume across devices. 55,000+ community radio stations by genre and country. SOUNDSCAPES Rain, thunder, fire, wind, white noise and more, generated live on your device. Layer up to three to focus, relax or sleep. MOVIES & SHOWS WITH JELLYFIN Add your Jellyfin server and Cinema joins your music: movies and shows in 4K HDR with subtitles and intro and credit skipping, plus surround and height-channel spatial audio decoded on your device. Mix both servers in one queue. SIRI, WIDGETS & STATS Play with Siri, find music in Spotlight, customize with dozens of widgets and shortcuts. Connect your own ListenBrainz or Trakt account to log what you hear and watch; nothing is sent until you do. Unlock 650+ achievements. PRIVACY FIRST No tracking, no analytics, no in-app ads. Your library comes from your own server; settings sync through iCloud. --- Want a test run first? Honu’in (radio) and GilloCast (podcasts) are free to download. Need help? Email dev@dracsjukebox.com or use Send Debug Log in the Menu. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.dracsjukebox.com/eula