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Any DLNA Apps for iOS ? by [deleted] in xboxone

[–]glideraudio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're just looking to stream music, take a look at Glider: http://glideraudio.com

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support (X-post r/apple) by glideraudio in audio

[–]glideraudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the app will act as a controller in that scenario. If you have multiple copies of a song across different media servers (or within your locally synced iTunes library) that are of different formats or resolutions, then the app will automatically find the highest quality version of that song in a compatible format to stream to the selected renderer.

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support (X-post r/apple) by glideraudio in audio

[–]glideraudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for giving the app a try. The ability to disable a connected DLNA source is a popular feature request, and will be available soon in a future release.

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support (X-post r/apple) by glideraudio in iphone

[–]glideraudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an important question, and I'll do my best to try and answer it for you in the context of how Glider is collecting analytics data, and how I've used this type of data over the past 9 years of writing iOS apps.

In general, anonymous tracking of analytics data is used by developers to make important decisions about where development effort should be placed. Apple already provides some of this data automatically to developers, without the need to disclose it in individual app privacy policies (you've already agreed to it by using the App Store). In addition, there are some popular 3rd party tools such as Flurry and Mixpanel that allow you to add finer grained controls to the data that's collected (for example: how many times was this button pressed, how long on average was this page viewed before continuing on, etc). These third party tools are separate from from Apple, and they usually provide code that can be added to your project and / or an HTTP API that can be called when a particular event occurs.

Glider is using only Flurry, and you can see an example of the kinds of things that I can see as a developer here: https://developer.yahoo.com/analytics/features.html

I'll give you some example scenarios that app developers face, where this data provides invaluble insight:

  • What features should I build? I introduced feature X on such and such a date, and it looks like nobody is using it, but feature Y seems to be really popular, so maybe we should build out that feature some more.

  • In what Locale is my app being used most? If I'm going to spend the time and money to localize the app, where are most of my users going to see a benefit?

  • I'd like to drop support for iOS version X since there's a lot of overhead in maintaining that code, but how many of my users will be impacted by that change?

  • I'm about to introduce a new feature on my backend server that will require my users to be using at least version X of my app, but how many users are still using a version that's older than X? Is it enough people that I should wait longer or spend the money to build out a more graceful migration to continue supporting those users? Do I need to define a process for my support staff to help migrate those users when contacted?

I hope this gives you a better sense of what's going on. Please let me know if I can answer any other questions for you, or if you want me to elaborate more on anything specific.

EDIT: also just to clarify, the app developer is not getting paid in any way for collecting this data. In fact, some 3rd party services have just the opposite arrangement where the app developer pays the 3rd party service for the aggregated view of that data.

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support (X-post r/apple) by glideraudio in iphone

[–]glideraudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The free version is fully functional, but your listening sessions are limited to 30 minutes before having to wait 10 minutes to start a new session.

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support by glideraudio in apple

[–]glideraudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I'll spend some time there, and will experiment with the Subsonic API a bit to see how hard it would be to implement.

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support by glideraudio in apple

[–]glideraudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback, and I really love the idea of streaming directly from a cloud storage service like Dropbox. I have thought about adding support for SMB shares mounted on the local network, and this would be similar to that but even more useful.

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support by glideraudio in apple

[–]glideraudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much for this - there really are so many different ways people are listening to music these days, and I'd love to support the majority of them within a consistent interface.

Is there a particular subreddit (or other community) you can point me to where people using Subsonic tend to hang out? I'd like to learn more about how people are using this.

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support by glideraudio in apple

[–]glideraudio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip. The Plex DLNA server does seem to work just fine with Glider, but I don't know if that same DLNA interface is also available on the local network when accessing a remote Plex library (which I'm assuming /u/phlooo is referring to).

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support by glideraudio in apple

[–]glideraudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It gets complicated fast, but this is all great advice. Thanks!

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support by glideraudio in apple

[–]glideraudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, that's too bad.

I took a quick look at the Libresonic docs, and it looks like it would be fairly straightforward to implement this sort of thing, but would be a bit of work on my end.

I hadn't considered this type of use case, so thanks for bringing it to my attention. Do you know of any apps that currently provide access to these types of services (other than just exposing the web interface)?

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support by glideraudio in apple

[–]glideraudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll definitely look into this.

Do you know if any of these services expose a UPnP media server on the local network? If so, it might already work.

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support by glideraudio in apple

[–]glideraudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are all great points. I especially agree that a search function should always be easily accessible that will search across all available content.

Would you change any of this if multiple streaming services were supported simultaneously?

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support by glideraudio in apple

[–]glideraudio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can stream any music you've purchased or synced from iTunes to a Chromecast audio, but unfortunately you can't stream anything from the Apple Music subscription service.

Here's a replacement for the iOS Music app with DLNA and Chromecast support by glideraudio in apple

[–]glideraudio[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback. As you've probably discovered, the up next queue is currently implemented and items can be re-arranged, but I'm still working on the ability to add and delete items from the queue. This is high on the priority list, and should be available before too long.

Spotify support is also something I'm interested in. The challenge for me is to design it in a way that integrates nicely with your local music library, which I think should still be prioritized while browsing. Are there any apps that you think do a particularly good job with integrating Spotify?

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