play:Sub Music Streamer2026.10.1 - App Store

Stream your Subsonic-server-hosted music to your iOS or CarPlay device, Chromecast device or Subsonic Jukebox.
Enjoy your music everywhere, anytime, in the quality you decide!

play:Sub supports playback of most audio formats like FLAC, MP3, AAC and more.
Lossless and gapless playback is supported, as well as crossfading between tracks.

Use the 10-band fully customizable equalizer to get the right sound.
The equalizer has presets for common genres and scenarios.
Apply crossfade and replay-gain for the perfect listening experience.

Browse your music your way, be it by folder, artist, album, decade.
Control playback using gestures, buttons or remote controlled from you headset.
Play on anything: builtin speaker, headphones, Bluetooth connected headphones/amp/speaker/car-stereo or AirPlay devices.

play:Sub streams your music over any connection, and caches songs for when connectivity is bad.
Played songs are cached automatically, and you can manually cache individual songs or entire folders, artists or albums.

SERVER SUPPORT
. Subsonic, AirSonic, Ampache, Madsonic, Funkwhale, Libresonic, Navidrome
. Supports multiple servers and easy switching between them
. Any Subsonic 4.8+ compatible server should work
. You may need to enable Subsonic API on some server types

USER INTERFACE
. Dark and light UI themes
. All orientations, incl. iPad multitasking support

AUDIO
. FLAC, AAC, ALAC, MP3, MP4, OGG, WAV, AIFF, WEBM and more
. Plays most audio formats without transcoding
. Lossless playback (wo transcoding)
. Gapless playback
. 10-band equalizer
. Crossfade
. Replay Gain
. HI-rez digital up to 24bit/192kHz
. Variable playback speed (0.5-2x)

PLAY ON
. Any iOS device
. CarPlay
. Chromecast
. Jukebox

DISCOVERY
. Artist radio.
. Artist top songs
. Similar artists
. Be inspired by random artist, album or songs
. Play random songs in a genre

BROWSE YOUR MUSIC ANY WAY YOU LIKE IT
. Artists, Albums, Songs
. Folders
. Playlists, Favorites, Genres
. Podcasts, Audiobooks, Bookmarks
. Decades
. Filter by Subsonic mediafolder

INTERNET RADIOSTATIONS
. Server configured / shared internet radiostation.
. 20000+ radiostation directory powered by radiobrowser,info

PLAYLISTS
. Create, update and delete playlists
. Personal and shared playlists
. Cache complete playlists to device
. Full playlist support in both online and offline mode

FAVORITES
. Starring of artists, albums, tracks and folders
. Starring works in both online and offline mode
. Items starred when offline is synced at first chance
. Easily filter lists for starred content

GENRES
. View All, Random or Starred albums from a genre
. View Random or Starred songs from a genre

CONTEXT MENU EVERYWHERE
. Long-press any item to show relevant actions
. Easily navigate between associated artist, album, tracks and folders
. Add tracks, albums, artists or folders to playlists
. Swipe-to-reveal shortcuts

CACHING
. Automatic caching of played tracks, pre-cache upcoming tracks
. Manually cache selected folders, artists, albums or tracks
. Upgrade cached audio to better bitrate when available

SEAMLESS OFFLINE MODE
. Play cached music when connectivity is bad
. Show only cached content
. Same user interface in online and offline mode

INTEGRATION
. AirPlay, Bluetooth, remote control, lock screen & control center integration
. Support iOS’ sleep timer
. Resumes music after being interrupted by phone calls
. Background downloads

CONNECTION
. SSL, self-signed certificates
. Secure authentication for Subsonic 5.3+ servers
. cellular/wifi dependent bitrate; override settings for slow/fast WiFi networks

SCROBBLING
. Scrobbles to last.fm if configured on the server
. Updates Now Playing on the server
. Updates server-playcounts when playing cached content
. Music played while offline is scrobbled when online again

NOTE: a licensed installation of Subsonic 4.8+ is required.
Some features need a higher server version (Top Songs, Artist Radio, Similar Artists, Last.fm Imagery, Album Info)

Version History RECORD LABELS, TITLE QUALIFIERS, CARPLAY IMPROVEMENTS

RECORD LABELS
Browse your collection by record label. Every label gets its own page with its albums, artists and songs - all of them, shuffled, or the starred ones - and an album's About page now says who released it.
Star the labels you follow and find them under Favourites, in search, and in CarPlay.
Record labels come from servers that publish them, such as Navidrome.
The URL scheme plays a label too: playsubapp://play?recordlabel=Blue Note (wildcards like Blue* work).

TITLE QUALIFIERS
"Rubber Soul (Remastered)" can be shown as "Rubber Soul", or with "(Remastered)" in smaller, dimmed text - your choice, in Settings > User Interface Tweaks > Title Qualifiers.

CARPLAY
● New: On iOS 27, album, artist, playlist, folder, genre, decade and record label pages open with a header showing the cover, title and details, with Play, Shuffle and Enqueue right there. Earlier iOS versions keep the quick action row.
● New: An artist button on the Now Playing screen takes you straight to the artist/album.
● Fixed: Icons in dark mode were black on very dark grey.

AND THE REST
● New: Automatic theme changes now follow the system appearance.
● Fixed: Handing playback off to Chromecast lost the playback position.
● Fixed: WMA files would not play on Chromecast.
● Fixed: Swiping back through the navigation stack works again.
● 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 2026.10.1 Sep 30 AUTO DJ, AUDIO VISUALIZER, DOWNLOADS VS CACHE

AUTO DJ
Never let the music stop: when the play queue runs out, play:Sub keeps it going.
Pick a mode - favourite artists, random albums, cached songs, newest additions, artist radio, decade radio and many more - or let Auto DJ draw a fresh strategy for every round.
Choose it in Settings, or straight from the play queue menu. "Up Next" on the player screen tells you what is coming.

AUDIO VISUALIZER
A spectrum analyzer has moved into the player. Swipe past the last player page to find it, with a frequency axis in octaves, peak markers.
Not your thing? Turn it off in Settings > User Interface Tweaks > Audio Visualizer.

DOWNLOADS AND CACHE ARE NOW TWO DIFFERENT THINGS
Downloads are yours to keep: "Keep Offline" downloads stay put until you remove them, and are never removed to make room for something else. The automatic cache still fills and trims itself in the background.
● New: Choose Download or Cache directly from the context menu.
● New: Reorganised "Storage and Caching" settings, with separate Clear Cache, Remove Downloads and Clear All actions.
● New: "Preload Upcoming Tracks" is now configurable, from 1 to 30 tracks.

AND THE REST
● New: play:Sub now requires iOS 16.
● New: Context menu for Decades.
● New: The user interface follows along with the freely resizable windows of the newest iOS, iPadOS and macOS.
● Fixed: Random songs and browse lists now respect the active media filter.
● Fixed: Browse lists could get stuck showing nothing after changing the media filter.
● Fixed: The radio station directory is back, and station metadata is parsed correctly again.
● 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 2026.9.22 Sep 14 New in this version:
- Configurable order of music library items.
- CarPlay: Adds alpha-index where possible.
- CarPlay: Select active server now possible from CarPlay.
- CarPlay: Now reloads when mediaserver is changed.
- Various bugfixes. 2026.8.22 Jul 23 New in this version:
- 5-star rating support.
- Bugfixes and other improvements. 2026.7.22 Jun 24 New in this version:
- New: Polish translation.
- New: Widgets are now Interactive widgets on newer iOS versions.
- Fixed: Widget rendering issues when homescreen is in clear or tinted mode..
- Fixed a server sync issue where serverside changes was not reflected in app.
- Fixed a few layout issues.. 2026.6.22 Jun 6 New in this version:
- CarPlay: now has a playback queue
- CarPlay: Decades Support
- CarPlay: Bookmarks Support
- CarPlay: Genres Support
- CarPlay: Optimizations of image loading and caching.
- Various fixes to play queue handling.
- Various fixes to cache handling. 2026.4.22 Apr 22 This version fixes a few bugs and annoyances:
- Fixed a crash when switching browse sub-lists.
- Fixed Offline scrobbles were sent with time of transmission instead of time of playback.
- Fixed Sleep timer expires too soon.
- Fixed changing app icon on iPad. 2026.1.22 Jan 24 - Refreshed user interface for newest iOS, iPadOS and macOS.
- Updated translations.
- Bugfixes and Performance Improvements.
- 2025.12.25 Fixes a crash on iOS 26 when tabs are configured to be disabled.
- 2025.12.26 Fixes layout issues on Mini-sized iPhones, and adds Decades as a possible tab.
- 2026.1.10 The alpha-index is back!

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2026.1.10 Jan 16 - Refreshed user interface for newest iOS, iPadOS and macOS.
- Updated translations.
- Bugfixes and Performance Improvements.
- 2025.12.25 Fixes a crash on iOS 26 when tabs are configured to be disabled.
- 2025.12.26 Fixes layout issues on Mini-sized iPhones, and adds Decades as a possible tab.

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2025.12.26 Jan 5 - Refreshed user interface for newest iOS, iPadOS and macOS.
- Updated translations.
- Bugfixes and Performance Improvements.
- 2025.12.25 Fixes a crash on iOS 26 when tabs are configured to be disabled.

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2025.12.25 12/21/2025 - Refreshed user interface for newest iOS, iPadOS and macOS.
- Updated translations.
- Bugfixes and Performance Improvements.

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2025.12.24 12/20/2025 - All new CarPlay implementation, written from the ground up to take advantage of modern CarPlay capabilities.
- Improved Gonic server compatibility.
- Updated translations.
- Bugfixes and Performance Improvements.

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2024.1 05/15/2024 Dutch translation.
Fixed repeat issue.
Fixed radio list issue. 2023.2 12/10/2023 REPEAT-1, CHINESE, NAVIDROME UPDATE, APP ICONS and more

REPEAT ONE TRACK
From the "What Took You So Long Department":
play:Sub now supports repeating a single song.
Thanks for the patience!

CHINESE TRANSLATION
play:Sub now has a Simplified Chinese translation thanks to the hard work of 张泰兴.

UPDATED NAVIDROME SUPPORT
play:Sub now supports bookmarks and radio station support with Navidrome.

NEW APP ICONS
Black and white app icons are now included.

OPTIONAL RESUME POINT MENU
You can now disable the "resume point menu" that has been driving some of you crazy for a while.
Go to Settings > User Interface Tweaks > Nitpicky Details > Disable Resume Point Menu

AOB
And of course no release notes are complete without mentioning the obligatory Bugfixes and Performance Improvements ;-)

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2023.1.1 05/12/2023 REPEAT-1, CHINESE, NAVIDROME UPDATE, APP ICONS and more

REPEAT ONE TRACK
From the "What Took You So Long Department":
play:Sub now supports repeating a single song.
Thanks for the patience!

CHINESE TRANSLATION
play:Sub now has a Simplified Chinese translation thanks to the hard work of 张泰兴.

UPDATED NAVIDROME SUPPORT
play:Sub now supports bookmarks and radio station support with Navidrome.

NEW APP ICONS
Black and white app icons are now included.

OPTIONAL RESUME POINT MENU
You can now disable the "resume point menu" that has been driving some of you crazy for a while.
Go to Settings > User Interface Tweaks > Nitpicky Details > Disable Resume Point Menu

AOB
And of course no release notes are complete without mentioning the obligatory Bugfixes and Performance Improvements ;-)

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2023.1 05/05/2023 BUGFIXES

Here's what's changed:
● Fixed an issue with playback stability/skipping tracks continuously. Mostly affecting servers using SSL.
● Fixed: Updated Chromecast support.
● Fixed: Sort order of tracks *not* containing trackno/discno metadata is now based on filenames instead of metadata-title (allowing for the filename to have a prefixed trackno)
● Fixed: Queue configured as tab was missing toolbar buttons (so editing wueue etc was not available.
● 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 2022.3 09/08/2022 PRIDE APP ICONS

Here's what's changed:
● New: Pride app icons.

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2022.2 06/03/2022 SLEEPTIMER, BUGFIXES

Here's what's changed:
● New: In-app sleep timer available from the player screen,
● New: URL Scheme support for controlling sleep timer:
playsubapp://set?sleeptimer=15
playsubapp://set?sleeptimer=endoftrack
playsubapp://set?sleeptimer=off
● New: App now requires iOS 14+
● New: Updated Navidrome support to enable lyrics and server scan status.
● Fixed: Safari reader mode now follows dark/light theme of app.
● Fixed: Settings screens now follows dark/light theme of app.
● Fixed: NavigationBar message was truncated on some devices.
● Fixed: Crash on iPads when clearing audio or image cache.
● Fixed: On iOS 15, on iPad, the player screen could not be dismissed using the chevron-button (new multitasking took precedence)
● Fixed: Searchfield was hidden when using search as a tab on certeian phone models.
● Various other bugfixes and improvements

2022.1.2 Adds the following:
● Fixed: The URL scheme commands did not work in 2022.1
● New: Extra large icons are now possible in lists.

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2022.1.2 05/31/2022 SLEEPTIMER, BUGFIXES

Here's what's changed:
● New: In-app sleep timer available from the player screen,
● New: URL Scheme support for controlling sleep timer:
playsubapp://set?sleeptimer=15
playsubapp://set?sleeptimer=endoftrack
playsubapp://set?sleeptimer=off
● New: App now requires iOS 14+
● New: Updated Navidrome support to enable lyrics and server scan status.
● Fixed: Safari reader mode now follows dark/light theme of app.
● Fixed: Settings screens now follows dark/light theme of app.
● Fixed: NavigationBar message was truncated on some devices.
● Fixed: Crash on iPads when clearing audio or image cache.
● Fixed: On iOS 15, on iPad, the player screen could not be dismissed using the chevron-button (new multitasking took precedence)
● Fixed: Searchfield was hidden when using search as a tab on certeian phone models.
● 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 2022.1 05/25/2022 WIDGETS, TURKISH, BUGFIXES

Here's what's changed:
● New: Homescreen widgets for iOS 14+
● New:Turkish translation
● New: Server configurations can now be shared/exported.
● Fixed: replay gain was not properly determined for some m4a files.
● Fixed: a problem with starting playback in rare conditions.
● Fixed: rare crashes during shutdown of the app.
● Fixed: Random songs are always fetched from the server when the app is online.
● Fixed: a problem with playback resume position when the server reports 0 as track duration. Booksonic is known to do this.
● Fixed: localization fixes.

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2021.2 06/22/2021 A small update to kick off 2021 with. Here's what's changed:
● New: Frequently Played Albums can now be placed as a toplevel tab.
● Fixed: a problem with setting the resume position when the server reports zero duration for a track. Known to affect some Booksonic versions.

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2021.1 02/16/2021 Here's what's changed:
● 2020.4.4 Workaround for Subsonic server not returning random songs from genres with "/" in the genre name.
● 2020.4.4 Fixed a crash related to syncing removal of artist/albums from the server.
● 2020.4.4 Fixed a crash when loading artist information from Ampache servers.
● 2020.4.3 Fixed crash when entering an artist when running against some server variants.
● 2020.4.3 Fixed Sorting of albums did not properly handle when track-names contained path-separators ("/").
● 2020.4.3 Fixed When "Search" is configured as a tab, the initial searchbar was not laid out correctly.
● 2020.4.2 Fixed a problem where trying to play a song from the Random Songs list would result in another song being played.
● 2020.4.2 Fixed a few rare crashes.
● 2020.4.1 Fixed browsing issue where you could not enter a sub-folder.
● 2020.4.1 Fixed layout issue on iPads in landscape orientation.
● French localization. Merci Gregory, Herve et Jonathan!
● Fixed some crashes that many of you ran into.
● Fixed use of RadioBrowser API, so radio stations can again be added from the app.
● Fixed some layout bugs and tweaked some minor parts of the user interface.
● Fixed some german translations.
● Further Gonic compatibility.

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2020.4.4 01/20/2021 Here's what's changed:
● 2020.4.3 Fixed crash when entering an artist when running against some server variants.
● 2020.4.3 Fixed Sorting of albums did not properly handle when track-names contained path-separators ("/").
● 2020.4.3 Fixed When "Search" is configured as a tab, the initial searchbar was not laid out correctly.
● 2020.4.2 Fixed a problem where trying to play a song from the Random Songs list would result in another song being played.
● 2020.4.2 Fixed a few rare crashes.
● 2020.4.1 Fixed browsing issue where you could not enter a sub-folder.
● 2020.4.1 Fixed layout issue on iPads in landscape orientation.
● French localization. Merci Gregory, Herve et Jonathan!
● Fixed some crashes that many of you ran into.
● Fixed use of RadioBrowser API, so radio stations can again be added from the app.
● Fixed some layout bugs and tweaked some minor parts of the user interface.
● Fixed some german translations.
● Further Gonic compatibility.

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2020.4.3 01/11/2021 With 2020 finally coming to an end, here is a small update to celebrate that.

Here's what's changed:
● 2020.4.2 Fixed a problem where trying to play a song from the Random Songs list would result in another song being played.
● 2020.4.2 Fixed a few rare crashes.
● 2020.4.1 Fixed browsing issue where you could not enter a sub-folder.
● 2020.4.1 Fixed layout issue on iPads in landscape orientation.
● French localization. Merci Gregory, Herve et Jonathan!
● Fixed some crashes that many of you ran into.
● Fixed use of RadioBrowser API, so radio stations can again be added from the app.
● Fixed some layout bugs and tweaked some minor parts of the user interface.
● Fixed some german translations.
● Further Gonic compatibility.

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2020.4.2 01/07/2021 With 2020 finally coming to an end, here is a small update to celebrate that.

Here's what's changed:
● 2020.4.1 Fixed browsing issue where you could not enter a sub-folder.
● 2020.4.1 Fixed layout issue on iPads in landscape orientation.
● French localization. Merci Herve et Jonathan!
● Fixed some crashes that many of you ran into.
● Fixed use of RadioBrowser API, so radio stations can again be added from the app.
● Fixed some layout bugs and tweaked some minor parts of the user interface.
● Fixed some german translations.
● Further Gonic compatibility.

For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk 2020.4.1 01/02/2021