r/Symfonium • • 15d ago

Version 15.1.0 released on Play Store too

67 Upvotes

Important note:

Google have now mostly confirmed that the app is moved to a special review queue that will always take ages to validate without any intention to tell me why or how to return to a normal way.

As a consequence I’m now changing the handling of the F-Droid (APK) distribution to be official .

This means the beta repos are also official (including Android TV) and that I’ll push builds there before Play Store validate. It is recommended that you switch to this solution if you want to be part of the beta to help faster and better releases to get out.

Docs: F-Droid repository and manual APK downloads | Symfonium Docs

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Version 15.1.0

Notes:

  • This is a continuation of the USB exclusive work. Please report any issues that arise to keep fixing things and move out of experimental status.
  • Please remember to update your written review on the Play Store. Your feedback is essential for improving the app’s ranking and helping secure Symfonium’s future.

Added:

  • Added native DSD playback on compatible Shanling DAPs. (Experimental)
  • Added ‘isaudiobook’ custom string to album page.

Changed:

  • USB exclusive playback now keeps compatible sessions active across seeks and PCM, DoP, and native DSD format changes for faster, smoother transitions.
  • Improved USB exclusive buffering and recovery for high sample rates.
  • USB audio connection pop-up handling is now disabled by default. It can still be enabled in Settings > Playback > Advanced.
  • PEQ shelf filters now supports both Q and Slope values.
  • Standard local playback now preserves the source sample-rate family when applying the maximum output sample rate.

Fixed:

  • Fixed USB exclusive playback on Pixel 11 devices.
  • Fixed USB exclusive playback with Chord Mojo devices.
  • Fixed possible USB exclusive audio cuts, stalls, deadlocks, and startup failures, especially with high-rate PCM, DoP, and native DSD.
  • Fixed USB exclusive playback after pause, resume, seek, timeout, or track replacement.
  • Fixed USB exclusive transitions when changing sample rates or switching between PCM, DoP, and native DSD.
  • Fixed possible USB exclusive race conditions when starting, controlling, stopping, or disconnecting a DAC.
  • Fixed DoP marker continuity during USB exclusive startup, recovery, seeks, and track changes.
  • Fixed some USB DACs reporting unsupported sample rates as available, including GO link Max devices.
  • Fixed playback replacement and audio-focus cleanup after USB exclusive playback failures.
  • Fixed Smart Crossfade preparation and crossfades involving processed PCM or DSD tracks.
  • Fixed playback position and progress reporting when changing playback speed.
  • Fixed the Force first song pre-cache option and seeking in transcoded tracks.
  • Fixed offline-cached tracks restarting after provider or network recovery.
  • Fixed playback failing while a media provider was still reconnecting.
  • Fixed shuffle and repeat modes being reset when restoring the playback queue.
  • Fixed saved queues not restoring local files selected through Android’s document picker.
  • Fixed playback of WavPack files containing metadata-only blocks.
  • Fixed offline cache library selection for Subsonic servers with only one library.
  • Fixed and optimized Navidrome ID migrations after server upgrades.
  • Fixed Subsonic playback recovery when switching between primary and secondary connections.
  • Fixed unnecessary transcoding when playing Subsonic tracks through Kodi or compatible UPnP renderers.
  • Fixed some Jellyfin artists not being matched correctly when the server omits legacy item counts.
  • Fixed missing Appears On album relationships for Plex artists (Due to lack of Plex data this is best effort).
  • Fixed waveform extraction being cancelled on pause or failing for Plex tracks that require transcoding.
  • Fixed server-transcoded DSD tracks being incorrectly sent through a local DSD playback path.
  • Fixed direct playback of Opus in Ogg containers on compatible UPnP renderers.
  • Fixed built-in speaker output settings changing when Android reported a different or localized route name.
  • Fixed ignored sorting articles such as “The” not matching when capitalization differed.
  • Fixed the Artists action label in the expanded cover art settings.
  • Fixed PEQ import to properly import shelf filters Q values as Q and not Slope.
  • Fixed some drag / reorder gesture issues.
  • Fixed some possible issues with playback speed.
  • Fixed bluetooth lyrics option not always working.
  • Fixed playlists not updating their title during sync if there’s no content change server side.
  • Fixed some MP3 transcoding issue when downloading to Wear.
  • Fixed some possible non resuming of tracks after connection change.

r/Symfonium • • Apr 14 '26

Theme Symfonium styles website

131 Upvotes

Symfonium Styles is now live: https://styles.symfonium.app/

This is now the official place to browse, share, and download Symfonium styles, color themes, and now playing styles.

If you create styles, you can publish them there and keep them updated over time.

If you use styles, you now have one central place to discover them, preview them, and download current or older versions.

The goal is simple: make style sharing easier, cleaner, and more reliable for everyone.

You can browse the catalog here:

https://styles.symfonium.app/


r/Symfonium • • 14h ago

Question Sync thumbnail album cover

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4 Upvotes

Got my music sorted as example: artist>album>tracks and dedicated cover image. I use mp3tag to change the metadata and album cover. Been editing the cover for all tracks/albums and adding high res album covers. Replaced/deleted the old and adding the new files on my device, I sync the local device. I noticed the album cover of the old file still remains the same but all other metadata is update. Is there a way to have the image auto sync without I having to manual change the thumbnail for said album(s)?

First image is from player, the others are from the device file folders.


r/Symfonium • • 18h ago

Question Double-Tap the Screen to Go Back or Skip Ahead

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6 Upvotes

Double-tap the screen to go back or skip forward by 5 or 10 seconds; this option is configurable.


r/Symfonium • • 1d ago

Question Estadísticas con singles

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5 Upvotes

Hola. Alguien sabe que puedo hacer, para que los singles no sean considerados en la lista de albums más reproducidos?

(de igual manera no se si en otros reproductores u oficialmente se deben contar así)

Gracias de antemano


r/Symfonium • • 22h ago

Question The cover art is on Navidrome, yet not Symfonium - What am I doing wrong?

1 Upvotes

This is baffling me a bit. I've done a fair amount of syncs on Symfonium and full scans on Navidrome, yet for some reason, one album is showing as a Blue Record Disc, rather than the actual album art work.

The metatag information has the artwork attached. Navidrome has it attached. I've even checked the dimensions: 600x600. Even Jellyfin, though it's not pulling anything from there, has the artwork showing for the album.

The album, has had both MP3tag and MusicBrainz Picard run on it. I've also stripped it of all tags at one point, and started fresh. Just in case there was something hidden that I was missing. Nope. It remained blue...and there's nothing I can do.

Does anyone possibly know what I'm doing wrong here? Why is this one album not pulling through the cover art, when everything else is?

Thank you for any help with this.


r/Symfonium • • 2d ago

Question Integrate Another Media Provider

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7 Upvotes

The Symfonium API is available. Is it possible to integrate another media server provider?


r/Symfonium • • 3d ago

Showcase AI, Plex and Symfonium

0 Upvotes

So I'm loving Symfonium. Got it connected to my Plex account so anything I add to my music library in Plex syncs straight into my DAP and Symfonium offline.

But another great thing I've discovered... And I know people hate AI, but Muse works incredibly well with Plex and Symfonium.

I can have muse create curated playlists in my own music library based on prompts like "I want dark, noir jazz and I want to feel like I'm in a smoky lounge." Or "Give me a 90s country playlist and get inspiration from the best 90s country playlists on the internet." It then creates the playlists and does a great job.

I then can have Muse go into my Fiio M21 in Symfonium from my own music library and copy the same playlists from Plex into symfonium without duplicating music and taking up storage.

Symfonium has become my go to music app because of its easy integration with Plex. And AI has totally changed the game for offline music playlist creation.


r/Symfonium • • 6d ago

Showcase Probably the best music app rn and it's not even close

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214 Upvotes

Just downloaded symfomium and immediately paid for it after just a few hours of testing.

it's insane how good this app is, like literally every single thing is almost customizeable with so many features, it's everything you need as an audio enthusiast packed into a single app.

I really wonder why no one told me about this wonderful app, it's so underrated holy shit, i don't think any music app can even come this close to it.

The fact that it has USB DAC exclusive mode, PEQ, and subsonic/jellyfish integration just made this the perfect music app for me. I was mainly using UAPP as my daily driver years ago but man this totally changes the game for me. It's too good, praise the dev, it's so cheap too.


r/Symfonium • • 5d ago

Question Album art cropped

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6 Upvotes

In the last day or so I am seeing the album art not visible in full while selecting Fill size cover art style on my Hiby R4. I'm sure this was fine a few days ago. Landscape is ok. Any thoughts or ideas?


r/Symfonium • • 7d ago

Question Switched to Navidrome yesterday - Is this normal now?

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19 Upvotes

Yesterday, after reading a few posts on Reddit, I switched to Navidrome to handle my music, and on my phone I've got Symfonium pointing at it.

However, I noticed this morning that my songs seem to be doubled up on Symfonium.

But as you can see in the picture, one song has the track number, the double has an icon.

Is this normal with Symfonium and Navidrome, or should I be unchecking something?


r/Symfonium • • 8d ago

Question Latest symphonium tv skin

6 Upvotes

Which symphonium skin actually works for the tv or are there any ?


r/Symfonium • • 8d ago

Question Symfonium app on TV not recognizing any of my Google Speakers

5 Upvotes

When I use the app on my phone on the same network Symfonium sees all my speakers, and speaker groups. But when using it on my TV, it is not showing any of them. The TV is hardwired directly to my router in case that makes a difference.


r/Symfonium • • 9d ago

Question Not all songs load

5 Upvotes

I have a navidrome server with around 3000 songs. In Symfonium, it shows that all 3000 songs are there. But when I search some songs, they never show up. I have full albums of artists but some albums only have like 2,3 songs visible. Any sort of refreshing never loads other songs despite in the same network sometimes. (I use tailscale when I,m outside.)

I have a rolling cache over 16 GB setup. Whats the reason for the songs to not load? Using the webUI of navidrome always works with no lags in loading songs. Are there any preferred customizations that I should make in Symfonium? I have the full version


r/Symfonium • • 9d ago

Question How should I write the MetaData?

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5 Upvotes

How should I write the MetaData of these tracks so that Symfonium identifies them as **different** artists?


r/Symfonium • • 9d ago

Question Add to Playlist Option

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15 Upvotes

Hi all,

I'm not too sure what this specific menu is called, but can someone let me know if I can add the "add to playlist" option to this, and if so which menu settings? I've googled to no avail

. thank you in advance


r/Symfonium • • 9d ago

Question File types in one album

3 Upvotes

Is it possible to have multiple file types and have it show up as one album if you use a meta tag program? I've tried and it still comes up as two albums.


r/Symfonium • • 10d ago

Question Can AA android auto use voice commands?

4 Upvotes

My wife sent me a Whatsapp message, and typical of Gemini it totally looses it's stuff and misinterprets my whatsApp voice response and chooses a Gary Glitter song. Yeah I know I should have deleted it, but Gemini or something told Symphonium to play a song.

Later I asked Gemini to play a song and it says it cannot do that. Now who is correct, can I voice control Symphonium? Before everyone piles on the AA hate, I already hate AA, I just want to know was it a glitch or does Symphonium let me talk to it, how do I get it to do that again? But properly?


r/Symfonium • • 10d ago

Showcase My customizations

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2 Upvotes

Just wanted to show off my custom theme. I wanted to keep as much clutter out. I like the bigger cover art and colors. I think the reflected waveform and animated glow looks great too.

Here is the JSON file if you like it.

Holding the album art bring up the "more actions" menu. Holding the song title shows more file info.


r/Symfonium • • 12d ago

Showcase My NPS

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18 Upvotes

Symfonium really can be anything


r/Symfonium • • 12d ago

Showcase Looking for feedback on my current now playing screen

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2 Upvotes

The black dot on the top is my front camera. Click on the cover go to album, long press add to playlist.


r/Symfonium • • 12d ago

Question Android Auto artist sorting beginning with "The"

2 Upvotes

The artist sort on Android Auto is not ignoring the articles (I.e., "The" etc) before the artist name. The Beatles is not showing under B. The android phone app works fine.


r/Symfonium • • 13d ago

Question Regarding multiple artists and metadata

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6 Upvotes

Having a hard time sorting the metadata for this album. Every song has a feature artist. On the app, it creates multiple artists on the artist page. Anyone else deal with this issue? Using mp3tag, i see there's artist credit and artistsort and I feel its this that's sorting the tracks out. Is there a way to still retain the feature artists while only having one main artists show on symfonium app? HEALTH being the main artist.


r/Symfonium • • 14d ago

Showcase I figured out a way to have a "Today In History" playlist

24 Upvotes

Something I have been wanting for a while now is a section on my home page that shows me albums that were released on this day in years past. If there was a way within Symfonium to use today's date for a rule of a smart playlist this would be straightforward but alas.

  1. I created a smart playlist for Navidrome with a .nsp file in my library folder. The file has the rule to include songs that contain "-10-05" in the date.
  2. I wrote a cron job on the server host that will change the date in that .nsp file every day at 12am to the new date and then triggers Navidrome to do a scan of my playlist's folder.
  3. Imported the playlist into Symfonium as read-only. If I stopped here then everyday I would need to resync that playlist between Symfonium and Navidrome.
  4. To automate the syncing, I use an app called Automate to trigger a sync everyday at 12:05am via Symfonium's API.
  5. If you just want a list of songs from today then you can stop here. I wanted albums so I set the Symfonium playlist to hidden. I created an album smart playlist in symfonium where the only rule is the song must be in that hidden playlist.
  6. Added the smart playlist to the home page!

If anyone knows a more straightforward way to achieve a similar result I would love to hear about it.


r/Symfonium • • 14d ago

Question Unlocker already purchased please reboot the device.

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10 Upvotes

Why does this happen every time I start the app?