what Android players do you recommend?

tocompleritotocomplerito Member
in Astiga app

I'm not a huge fan of the UI on the Astiga app. I've been reading that it's possible to use other audio players in sync with the Astiga service. Can any of you recommend some of them so I can try them out on my Android phone?

I'm in the processing of migrating from Spotify and their app is pretty versatile and smooth. If I can find anything that handles music playing / sorting / displaying / etc as good as Spotify does, I'd be very happy :)

Thanks!

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  • gravelldgravelld Administrator
    edited March 2025

    For Android? Tempo and Symfonium (paid) get some love...

    BTW, could you post about how you find the UI of the official app? It's something we're looking to improve in the short term.

  • tocompleritotocomplerito Member

    hello!

    I'm going to try Symfonium now, but wondering: why should I use Astiga when Symfonium can also sync with my pCloud files?

  • gravelldgravelld Administrator

    If you're happy to just use Symfonium on a phone that's fine, but Astiga covers other platforms, provides library browsing and sync (which has to be built by Symfonium on your phone otherwise), library metadata enhancement... basically I suppose it offloads stuff your phone would otherwise have to do, and makes it available on other devices to your phone.

  • tcoster21tcoster21 Member

    I wanted to leave a comment as a user who has been using Symfonium consistently for the past 3 or 4 years as their only media player using purely cloud storage services, which right now is a couple GDrive accounts, OneDrive seems to fail when syncing when my file count gets to be too high. My issue, and the reason I am looking into alternatives is due to what the admin said above me - Symfonium takes a very very very long time to restore a back up or to sync your media files for both the initial sync/restoration and a regular weekly sync, which still will take over an hour per media provider. You also cannot edit any tags once the media has been uploaded to Symfonium so changing tag errors/mis-matches, etc is a giant pain in the butt. Beyond that, I do love it, it's really a wonderful program and I will continue using it as it is near perfect.

  • DMcRDMcR Member

    FWIW, currently v15.0.1 of Symfonium connects to the Astiga server (and you can view and play files that day), but it does not sync with the server. The state remains in "preparing sync" state. So no metadata lists are created.

    Their tech support said this will be fixed in the next release.

    Dennis

  • gravelldgravelld Administrator

    Thanks - do you have a URL for that, or was it a private email thread?

  • DMcRDMcR Member

    Here it is: https://support.symfonium.app/t/cant-get-symfonium-to-sync-with-astiga/14852

  • gravelldgravelld Administrator

    Thanks - left a note for Tolriq.

  • DMcRDMcR Member

    Yes, I saw that. My take is that he thinks that the sync hang is due to a missing OS requirement to specify the type as OpenSubsonic.

    Since you said you'd add that soon, if you let me know when you do, I can test it at my end to see if it fixes the hang.

    Thanks,

    Dennis

  • gravelldgravelld Administrator

    I'm not sure if that is the case for this issue - he replied before I interjected saying it should be fixed.

    We will be fixing the issue he highlighted anyway.

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