I'm using a third-party Subsonic client (Feishin on Mac OS 26.5.1) to access my Astiga library. My library is manually tagged (I'm using Astiga with Library Enhancement turned off), and each file has explicit, correct Album Artist tags---for example, "Various Artists" on compilation albums, wherein each track has a distinct and individual Artist tag. For this kind of library organization, when viewing via Album Artist view, all such albums should be filed under "Various Artists," and artists that exist only on tracks in a compilation should not appear in the list of artists at all. Indeed, this is exactly how my library appears in the Astiga web-player when viewing by Album Artist.

However, when viewing via Feishin's "Album Artist" tab (which is distinct from its "Artists" tab), it does not have any entry for "Various Artists," and artists that have only tracks on compilation albums are given their own entry in the artists list. I cloned Feishin and checked its network activity, and indeed, when viewing by Album Artist, it calls the getArtists endpoint---the JSON it receives contains no entry for "Various Artists," and includes all artists on individual tracks on compilations.

On the other hand, when viewing in Feishin by Album, it lists albums correctly: a compilation album is listed correctly and uniquely under "Various Artists." It does this by calling getAlbumList2, and the JSON it receives, under the "artist" key, lists "Various Artists" where relevant. But then, when it gets info for an individual song via getAlbum, each song entry has only an "artist" field, populated by the track-performer---causing Feishin to incorrectly classify the "Album Artist" as the track-artist for the song.

Not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request exactly, so I apologize if this is not appropriate for this forum. I also apologize if this is too focused on a third-party service. But since this pertains to Astiga's way of serving getArtists regardless of third-party client, I thought it worth bringing up---especially since sorting by Album Artist and compiling compilations under "Various Artists" is a foundational aspect of many people's libraries (mine included).

Happy to provide more details! Thanks!

By Astiga "service" I mean the Web hosted service, including the website, play.asti.ga , the sync process and so on. It generally does not include changes to the Android, Windows or Linux apps (although updates may include functionality that those apps depend on).

We aim to ship new builds every other week, and more often when there are critical issues to fix. A regular cadence of updates gets new features into your hands quicker, and gets us feedback quicker so we can improve the product more accurately for you, our users.

This thread is read-only because I don't want to distract from the information about what each build contains. If you want to raise an issue or discuss any of the builds, or features in the builds, please open a new thread.

I've enjoyed using Astiga for the last 7 days.

I went to sign up for the Premium version, choosing monthly instalments. When clicking on the Subscribe button I keep getting shown a page showing 'Slim Application Error' and can proceed no further.

Can you help?

My guess is that somewhere this happens

if (!trackname) {

// use file name

}

In addition, some slowness may be noticed as we run the migrations. Please bear with us, this should only be temporary.

I've tried multiple times, both web and app to no avail. I have also verified that hours later, my library still isn't updated with the latest files from my Drive, just to check that it wasn't a pure UI/front-end issue.

So it's been on our roadmap for a while to fix this.

I'm pleased to announce that we have started work on our official iOS app, and we have a first build for you to start testing!

As ever, we're taking an incremental approach to development, driving it by feedback and bug reports. We also wanted to get something useful out there and in your hands (literally!). Some listeners only use storage browsing and so might find this valuable!

This first alpha only allows you to log in, browse your connected storage accounts and play tracks. It sounds minimal, and is, but we're hoping to add more functionality as time passes.

There's a wider goal here. Our long term vision is to bring the new iOS app up to feature parity with the Android one, and then shift the Android one to the same codebase. This is possible because the underlying technology for the new app supports both platforms (and others). For the nerds: we're using Kotlin Multiplatform (often abbreviated as KMP). The advantage to Android users is a more modern UI and use of more modern audio components which brings extra features. The advantage to us is that there is just one codebase, and it's actively developed, unlike the codebase that the current app was originally based on.

Now we're looking for alpha testers to help us spot problems and guide development. If you'd like to be involved, please drop a comment here or send us an email to info@asti.ga asking to be included. We'll need the email address that you log into the iOS App Store with, so if it's not the same as your Astiga login you might have to send us an email.

The minimum supported iOS version is 17.2. Find more information about testing here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/cx7cEUKc . At the time of writing the build hasn't been approved, but hopefully this will change over the coming hours.

b) Search doesn't work for some short strings on web. I haven't experimented to find exact patterns but e.g. "ex" as a search string returns no results (this is expected as there is a three character minimum). But searching "ex:" misses many results including "ex:re" and includes results that shouldn't match (i.e. ones without the colon).

c) Likewise, search doesn't work correctly on the Android app. Here two character query strings are allowed. But a search for "ex:re" will not return the artist "ex:re". Again, I haven't experimented with all permutations where it doesn't work this is just one I have tested recently that isn't correct.

Astiga will now start the synchronisation process. This can take several minutes up to several hours, depending on your music library size and whether your files were changed or not. The synchronisation progress log will be shown below. You can safely close this window. You can stop the syncing process by clicking here.

2026-06-03T09:51:38 QUEUED Sync queued for processing

Thank you!

The bio's have been showing up, which is super awesome. However, I don't think I ever seen any image show up in any of my subsonic apps. Neither Feishin (PC, Linux) or Tempo (mobile, GrapheneOS, Android-based) has ever shown images.

I must have read wrong because at first I thought only bio's where supported so I didn't pay too much attention, but I just noticed images where also supposed to work.

One album named Σ is suddenly not showing on the genre page anymore.

However, this issue only occurs in third party clients. It does show up on the play.asti.ga.

When searching in the third party client, it also tells me there are 0 albums with this artist.

But when I click on the artist, the album is there like normal.

404 page not found

on the play.asti.ga domain. It was working fine this afternoon, so it must've broken not long ago. The main asti.ga domain and other subdomains still work, as might be obvious from me reporting it here 🙃.

Album is Disco 5

Artists are different artists

Album Artist is Pet Shop Boys

It is not ticked as a compilation in the ID tags

The album ONLY shows under Various Artists. It does NOT show under Pet Shop Boys.

Therefore, are you now (did you before?) taking all multi-artist albums and making them Various Artists? No problem if you are, but just curious!!!

If you aren't - why do you think this is happening?

Addendum : I have tried rescanning the library but clearly is still isn't picking up the Album Artist as I see it in the library. I wonder why?

I have 2 types of music storage: listening music and DJ music. I keep them in separate root folders. right now I only have my listening library all tidy, sorted and uploaded to my cloud storage to be used with Astiga. would be cool if I could also do the same for my DJ files, but without it merging with the listening files. this is because I use different methods for sorting them, and some of the files would be duplicate in both libraries.

This only affects some albums and their tagging is not similar, but they are both in m4a containers.

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!

When I look at the Browser view this music is not showing up.

I clicked the SYNC button and got a message that I need Premium to sync more than x number of times in 3 days..

I have Premium.

I just tried to Sync again and got an error message to turn on WiFi or mobile network and both are already turned on.

How do I get my music Synced?

I’m having an issue with searching within a music service in the Sonos S1 app, and I’d like to understand if this is a known limitation or a configuration problem.

I am currently using the Sonos S1 system and have successfully added and connected the Stiga music service. I can browse the service within the Sonos app and play content without any problems.

However, when I try to use the search function within Sonos S1 for this service, I get no results at all. The search simply returns an empty result, even though I know the content exists and is accessible when browsing manually.

This makes me wonder:

Is search functionality for certain music services (such as Stiga) no longer supported in Sonos S1?

Or is there something I can do on my end (e.g. reauthorizing the service, resetting the app, or similar) to restore search functionality?

Any clarification on whether this is a limitation of S1 or a fixable issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

• When an album folder name contains an apostrophe character (e.g. “Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone” or “50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin’”), the album cannot be added to the playlist.
• Clicking (+) next to the album and selecting “Add to now playing” does not add the album to the playlist. Instead, the folder is opened and the playlist remains empty / collapsed.
• The problem does not occur with folders that do not contain an apostrophe. It was reproducible by removing the apostrophe from the folder name – after that, adding to the playlist worked without any issues.

You can see the video at https://www.notion.so/mscheurer1979/Astiga-Bug-Reports-852aa4ee57394b729283f26e92ffdad7

When playing tracks from the play queue and deleting tracks located above the currently playing track, the playback marker jumps down by one entry for each deleted track. Background: I sometimes delete finished tracks from the queue while test-listening to multiple albums in a row.

On rare occasions this also caused the marker position to shift permanently, resulting in all tracks between the currently playing track and the new marker position being skipped entirely. However, I was unable to reproduce this behavior during today's testing for the video recording.

You can see the video here: https://mscheurer1979.notion.site/Astiga-Bug-Reports-852aa4ee57394b729283f26e92ffdad7

this is a support request. And I hope the topic wasn't already posted in the community. (Haven't found anything that fits to it.)

And sorry for the late post, I recognized this problem already a few weeks ago, maybe already in october or november, can't say anymore. Cause all the time I "fixed" it on my own.

On the subject:

I have two storage connections to my dropbox account:

• The first one is named "Dropb Musik aktuell", that connects to the Dropbox folder "/Musik/0 Musik aktuell anhören".
• The other one is named "Dropb Musik fertig", that connects to the Dropbox folder "/Musik/Musik fertig".

Both have "automatic synchronisation" enabled

(Just for notice: This music I alreay edited with tags, pictures inside the file, a fitting file name and also the artist / album as folder name. This files are to listen and also check if there the mp3 files are OK and if I like the music. When ready, I move the album folder to the Dropbox folder "Musik fertig".)

To listen to a new album, I chose the folder directly from Dropbox and add all the songs inside the album folder into the "Now playing" playlist by clicking on the (+).

But no matter how many files are in the folder, it only adds 10s in the "Now playing" playlist.

For example, if the folder has 16 songs, it only adds the first 10. Another folder has 47 songs, but only 40 songs are added.

Examples of how I name my folders / files:

• File "001 - Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - Why so Serious"
• Folder "The Dark Knight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)"

I recognized this phenomenon in both my connections. And I already checked if it could be cause of my browser settings and tools, like the extensions. Or my VPN connection.

But I get that phenomenon also when VPN is off. And I also use the Astiga Windows Web App, where I see the same phenomenon.

The last weeks I "fixed" it myself by adding the remaining songs manually.

But I hope some developer / supporter can fix this, so I don't have to do that anymore.

Thanks in advance.

You can now search your cloud hosted music library via the Sonos apps, controllers and devices.

Give it a go and let us know how you get on!

I've asked Nautiline but just seen my original playlist in my Astiga account so would be good to know where it lies, you think.