Soundwaves
Neat Subsonic client
$3.99
2.23for iPhone, iPad and more
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About Soundwaves
Soundwaves is a client for the Subsonic music server.
Soundwaves focuses on simplicity, making it the ideal client to connect your iPad or iPhone to your home theater setup.
Optionally setting a suitable max bit rate, enables Soundwaves to work well even over a bandwidth limited connection (e.g. a mobile connection). It will also play nicely with your car radio, connected via USB, Bluetooth or CarPlay.
In addition to audio formats natively supported by iOS (e.g. mp3, AAC), Soundwaves can also play FLAC, Opus and Ogg Vorbis content.
Soundwaves can also play movies from your Subsonic server, as long as they are in a supported format (.mov, .mp4, .mpv, .3gp) or a proper transcoding has been configured on the server.
Soundwaves works with other media servers which implement the same Subsonic API's, such as Madsonic, Airsonic, Supysonic, LMS or Ampache.
Note about privacy: tracking only happens when using the free, ad-supported version. Removing ads via the in-app purchase also stops tracking and data collection.
Soundwaves focuses on simplicity, making it the ideal client to connect your iPad or iPhone to your home theater setup.
Optionally setting a suitable max bit rate, enables Soundwaves to work well even over a bandwidth limited connection (e.g. a mobile connection). It will also play nicely with your car radio, connected via USB, Bluetooth or CarPlay.
In addition to audio formats natively supported by iOS (e.g. mp3, AAC), Soundwaves can also play FLAC, Opus and Ogg Vorbis content.
Soundwaves can also play movies from your Subsonic server, as long as they are in a supported format (.mov, .mp4, .mpv, .3gp) or a proper transcoding has been configured on the server.
Soundwaves works with other media servers which implement the same Subsonic API's, such as Madsonic, Airsonic, Supysonic, LMS or Ampache.
Note about privacy: tracking only happens when using the free, ad-supported version. Removing ads via the in-app purchase also stops tracking and data collection.
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.23
Last updated on May 18, 2023
Old Versions
Minor improvements to the radio player
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Version History
2.23
May 18, 2023
Minor improvements to the radio player
2.21
Mar 17, 2023
This version tries to play back M4A files which have not been optimized for streaming, by downloading them entirely. If you encode your own tracks, though, you really should make sure that they are optimized for streaming (ie. keep the index data at the beginning of the file).
2.20
Jan 3, 2023
Seeking from the lock screen is now possible
2.19.1
Dec 12, 2022
Minor engine improvements
2.19
Jun 27, 2022
Improved switching to AirPlay 1 devices
2.18
Feb 1, 2022
Fixed 24-bit FLAC playback
2.17.2
Oct 7, 2021
Minor fixes
2.17.1
Oct 5, 2021
Search box wasn't visible on iPhone, unless the server had multiple media folders active
2.17
Sep 22, 2021
Minor bug fixes
2.16
Aug 9, 2021
- Improved startup time
- Fixed compatibility with servers that don't support token authtentication, like NextCloud/OwnCloud Music app)
- Fixed compatibility with servers that don't support token authtentication, like NextCloud/OwnCloud Music app)
2.15
Jul 15, 2021
- Optimized CarPlay support on iOS 14+
- Internet radio stations configured on your Subsonic server are available in CarPlay too
- New option in the server configuration: when you browse your collection, you can decide whether to show tracks always in the order returned by the server or to sort them alphabetically when a folder contains more than one album
- Internet radio stations configured on your Subsonic server are available in CarPlay too
- New option in the server configuration: when you browse your collection, you can decide whether to show tracks always in the order returned by the server or to sort them alphabetically when a folder contains more than one album
2.14
Jun 3, 2021
You can now listen to the radio stations configured on your server
2.13
Mar 29, 2021
New FLAC, Opus and Ogg Vorbis decoders
2.12.1
Mar 2, 2021
Maintenance release which fixes minor details here and there.
2.12
Jan 7, 2021
This version contains some fixes related to AirPlay
2.10
Aug 16, 2020
Sometimes a server can reply with invalid character data (usually due to broken ID3 tags): Soundwaves now tries to be more tolerant and recover, if possible, from this errors.
2.9.1
Jul 9, 2020
Fixed a bug that could have caused some packet loss when streaming very large files
2.8
Mar 4, 2020
When using dark design, the dropdown for folder selection had black font on black background. It was probably too dark.
2.7
Feb 10, 2020
• When browsing a folder, "Add All" will now work recursively
• The context menu on playlist items lets you remove all tracks from the same artist or album in one go
• The context menu on playlist items lets you remove all tracks from the same artist or album in one go
2.6
Jan 2, 2020
Soundwaves works with LMS servers too (https://github.com/epoupon/lms)
2.5
Dec 23, 2019
This release adds a context menu to items in the playlist and servers table and polishes some internal workings.
It's also an excuse to wish you Happy Holidays :-)
It's also an excuse to wish you Happy Holidays :-)
2.4
Nov 26, 2019
Rewritten audio engine with more modern code and better support for AirPlay 2 devices.
2.3
Oct 27, 2019
Now works with Supysonic servers too
2.2
Oct 21, 2019
Avoid freezing for a long time if the server is not reachable when you launch Soundwaves
2.1
Sep 28, 2019
This release adopts the system Dark Mode configuration instead of Soundwaves' custom dark theme settings on iOS 13+. Also, for those who have upgrade to the lastest iOS/iPadOS, there's a function to download the tracks in your current playlist to a folder on your device, or connected USB drive/network share.
Even if you're still on iOS 11 or 12, thanks to Handoff support, you can now transfer your playlist across your devices.
Even if you're still on iOS 11 or 12, thanks to Handoff support, you can now transfer your playlist across your devices.
Soundwaves FAQ
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Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Soundwaves.
iPhone
Requires iOS 12.1 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 12.1 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 12.1 or later.
Soundwaves supports English
Soundwaves contains in-app purchases. Please check the pricing plan as below:
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$3.99
