AVSub vs Sonority for Sonos

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

Sonority configures your speakers in ways the standard controller app doesn’t allow — using only the local network connection on your home Wi-Fi. It does no audio processing of its own; all the sound comes from your real speakers. The configurations it creates are standard, supported speaker bondings — just ones the official app chooses not to expose. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Dedicated front speakers on a soundbar — add a discrete left/right pair so your bar becomes the center channel, for a true three-speaker front stage. • Build a complete home theater in one guided flow — fronts, rear surrounds and one or two subs, each optional. • Use a single amplifier to drive both passive front speakers. • Speaker groups the standard app won’t make — full-range zones of 2–16 speakers, stereo pairs (including mismatched models), or a custom per-speaker left/right/both layout, each with an optional sub. • Config profiles — snapshot your whole layout and rebuild it in one tap after moving speakers around. Each profile gets its own icon and colour, reorders with a drag, and opens a per-entity detail view showing exactly what it saved. A profile can also capture and restore per-speaker audio settings (bass, treble, loudness, night sound, speech enhancement, sub and surround levels, lip-sync) and, optionally, volume. • Apply a profile without opening the app — from a home-screen widget (small, medium or large) or a long-press on the app icon. • Rename rooms, identify which physical speaker is which by blinking its status light (or a short chime on iPhone/iPad) — right from a room or a bonded speaker — and toggle a speaker’s room-calibration tuning. • Diagnostics — a technical, hide-nothing view of your system when something isn’t working, which you can share with support or email to the developer to get help. • Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a layout that adapts to the screen — a roomy side navigation and multi-column view on iPad and Mac, the familiar single column on phones. Every change is made over your local network, is shown to you before it’s applied, and is fully reversible from within the app. PRIVACY No account. No sign-in. No analytics, no tracking, and no data collected. Sonority talks only to the speakers on your own Wi-Fi network — nothing leaves your home. REQUIREMENTS Compatible speakers on the same Wi-Fi network as your device. Room-calibration tuning, where supported, is measured in the manufacturer’s own app; Sonority only switches an existing tuning on or off. — Sonority is an independent app and is not affiliated with, authorized, maintained, sponsored, or endorsed by Sonos, Inc. “Sonos” is a trademark of Sonos, Inc., used here only to describe compatibility.