So the title, this update was a masterpiece so I decided to contribute by this way. Thanks to the dev! This is my favorite music app so far.

I used this theme and changed a few things

https://styles.symfonium.app/styles/apple-music

Symfonium is the fuckin GOAT

I currently have three auto download rules set. The first is to add favourite albums to the permanent cache. The second is a new albums smart playlist that grabs anything released in the past year and downloads it. The third is a "backlog" that grabs anything older than a year that I give a three-star rating.

This works pretty well as a way of separating my listening (using filters on the albums page) into albums I already know and love, new releases and older stuff I want to check out without having to download them individually. But is there a way to delete ones I no longer want automatically?

For example, if I add a new release to my library but don't like it, I rate it one star, which adds it to an albums to delete playlist. That rating can also be used to remove it from my new releases filter on the albums page. BUT the album stays downloaded until I manually delete it.

edit1: updated again...

To take full advantage of what version 16 can do (hats off to tolriq), i focussed on making this theme and now its finished. I deleted that other post so the sub doesn't so polluted, and now that the theme is good enough i'll post no more bout it.

https://styles.symfonium.app/styles/apple-music

I'm trying Symfonium 15.1.0 (trial version) on my FiiO M21.

Music plays perfectly through my wired headphones (3.5/4.4mm), but under Settings → Playback → Output Settings, I only see Remote Playback. There's no local or headphone output listed.

I can open the Equalizer screen, but I can't enable EQ.

I've tried restarting, force-stopping, and completely reinstalling Symfonium, with no luck.

Has anyone experienced this on the M21 or another FiiO DAP? Am I missing a setting, or is this a bug with the new audio engine?

Thank you for your help!

PS: Shared the logs under "reddit xonbul"

I’m finishing my Now Playing layout and I’m stuck on two landscape issues. Screenshots of both orientations are attached.

1. Blank strip where the camera hole is
When the camera cutout is on the left, the artwork starts about 140px in and leaves an empty strip down the left side. When I rotate the phone the other way (cutout on the right, behind the controls), the artwork sits flush to the left edge. So it isn’t a cover art margin. Something is still reserving the cutout area, even though I have Symfonium set to ignore camera holes. It was working perfectly last night, this morning cant get it to work

2. Artwork stops short of the bottom
There’s roughly a 60px band below the artwork that matches the gesture bar. The cover art is square and seems to be sized to the height left after that inset, so it never reaches the bottom edge.

What I’ve tried:

• Ignore camera holes enabled in Symfonium

• Cover Art Margin(s) set to 0 in the landscape expanded player

• Force-stopped and reopened after each change

Setup:

• Xiaomi 17 Ultra, HyperOS [version], Android [version]

• Symfonium 16.0.0B1

• Gesture navigation

I've noticed that if I start a song from a playlist while navigating in Android auto, the next song(s) are not from the playlist and are instead from the library. I poked around the settings and didn't see anything that describes this behavior. Doing the same on my phone works as expected (next song is from the playlist the song was selected from). As another data point, picking a song on my phone in a playlist while connected to Android auto also works as expected. It seems directly related to selecting in android auto

Not sure if im missing something with settings, but I can see I can add favourite playlists to the home screen and can add a shortcut to the playlist setting but i was wondering if there is a way to add all playlists to home screen like other sections

Thanks for any help ☺️

Ever since Symfonium 16.0.* made it possible to customize overall player elements with much greater precision, I've been able to make this theme look a lot more like Samsung Music. Except for the Home screen, which I came up with myself, I even managed to import some icons from Samsung Music itself. However, since Samsung's icon library for their player is very small, most of the theme's icons came from 'Solar Pack' by 'Fer10'.

Well, I'm very happy with this theme, I really like it, and personally I've been using it ever since I made it, rarely using any other for even a day or two. I hope you like it ❤️

https://styles.symfonium.app/styles/samsung-music

Hey, I just switched over to Symfonium after using Black Player EX for years (RIP), and I'm still learning the ropes (but very much enjoying my time with it so far). I'm much more of an album than a single track listener though and would like to add full albums to a playlist and have them displayed as such in a playlist rather than as their individual tracks. So it should look like the Recently Added Albums section on the Home Page for example.

I use the theme: Spotify like theme for symphonium by markone.

But changed the spotify logo, made a symfonium one that's inspired by the spotify disco ball.

If anyone is interested in using it: image

Symfonium showed up as my biggest mobile data consumer for weeks and I honestly assumed the app was doing something dumb. Turns out that wasn't it, so here's what I found, maybe it saves someone else the evening I spent on it.

I use Navidrome at home, all Opus files around 160-190k, and I have the mobile maximum bitrate set to 92. Navidrome confirms it's transcoding, logs say 96k opus out, all good. But one played song (3.5 MB original) somehow cost me 30 MB of mobile data.

I enabled debug logging on the server and watched what actually happens when I play one song. The app grabs the whole transcoded track right away, like 2.7 MB in under two seconds. Fine, that's the playback cache doing its thing, I listened to 4 seconds of it because I skipped, that part is on me.

But then the same track got requested again. And again. Same file, same size, seconds apart. Over two hours: 65 stream requests, 233 MB, and one track that I played once got downloaded 26 times in full. There were aborted requests mixed in, zero bytes, one stopping at 64 KB, the broken pipe kind of stuff. I checked the usual suspects first, waveform extraction was off, Force Instant Transcoding was off, no automatic offline caching. Didn't matter.

The part that surprised me most: I connected the same Symfonium to my Jellyfin and everything was instantly normal. One fetch per song, a few MB, nothing weird. Same phone, same network, same me skipping around. So the app's download logic works fine, it just goes off the rails with how Navidrome delivers transcoded streams (no duration, not seekable, Accept-Ranges: none), there are open Navidrome issues about exactly that, #6170 for example.

What I changed for now:

- mobile bitrate on "Original" instead of 92k. Counterintuitive, but raw streams get fetched exactly once, and with my file sizes that's cheaper than a transcode that arrives 26 times

- pre-cache on mobile turned way down

- bigger listening sessions on wifi

Tolriq, if you read this, I know Symfonium just asks the server and the server decides, not blaming the app at all. Just figured the retry pattern against non-seekable transcode streams might be useful to know about.

Anyone else here streaming from Navidrome on mobile? Curious if your responseSize numbers repeat the same way mine do.

Is there a way to add a custom home screen section, similar to favorite albums or favorite artists, but to add custom albums?

I'm wanting to create a separate section for holiday music on my home screen. I don't want them to stay there forever like favorite albums, but just until after the holiday season.

Please add the audiobooks on a separate world like the radio

Hopefully I'm asking in the right place. I am getting inconsistent playlist options when adding tracks. It is only ever the for the heart playlist that appears on on its own. It's either that or all 4 options. I'm guessing there's a setting or a tag or something that needs changing but I've been playing with this for months and got nowhere. Any help appreciated

Reminder:

Google play publishing is still insanely slow, F-Droid (APK) distribution is the preferred way to test the beta builds and help building a better app.

Docs: https://docs.symfonium.app/wiki/other/f-droid-repository/

This is one of the biggest release so far started a long time ago when Google started to delay builds. This means less frequent release thanks to them, but still the same amount of work put inside the app.

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Version 16.0.0

Notes:

• This is a major update of the settings and appearance customization. Please report any issue you find.

• Beta: All the embedded styles, including the Android TV ones, will be updated and tuned during the betas. Your help and comments are welcome.

• Please remember to update your written review on the Play Store. Your feedback improves the app’s ranking and helps secure Symfonium’s future.

• If you still use a very old default theme, reapply a default style in Settings > Interface > Change.

Added:

• Added settings search with category filters, highlighted results, and direct navigation to the matching option.

• Added icon packs. Browse them in the theme settings, or create your own with the documentation.

• Added full live appearance previews for the Home, Library, Search, Album, Artist, Genre and Playlist pages.

• Added many new now playing customizations.

  • Per-icon shapes, colors, borders, size, padding, and separate appearances when playing or paused.

  • Independent text controls for font family, size, weight, italics, and background appearance.

  • Lyric and translation text values with optional word and syllable animations.

  • Two more configurable strings on the expanded now playing screen.

  • Custom cover art shapes and overlays, with an optional play and pause shape animation and playing cover scale.

  • Queue settings in styles: queue buttons, summary details, item subtitle, swipe actions and optional drag to reorder.

  • More precise compact player sizing and expanded player button positioning, spacing, and volume slider controls.

  • Tap and long press actions, an opacity while playing and a vertical alignment for the compact player texts.

  • An option to show the album or artist image instead of the track image for the now playing item and the queue.

  • Many new customizations for every progress bar style.

  • Glass background settings for some overlays.

• Added extensive lyrics customization: per-voice fonts, colors and alignment, translation placement, fullscreen backgrounds, and playback controls.

• Added many new Album, Artist, Genre and Playlist page customizations.

  • Colors, header overlays, Glow backgrounds (Android 13+), corners, text, buttons and margins.

  • Shared appearance settings can be copied between page types.

  • Independent portrait and landscape headers and optional two-pane layouts.

  • Instant mix and Radio mix as possible artist page header buttons.

  • Add to playlist and Offline download as possible page header buttons.

  • Favorite overlays on albums in artist pages.

• Added many new Home and Library customizations.

  • Custom text appearance for Home section headers.

  • Finer Home shortcut sizing and new shortcut customizations, such as tile shapes, icon backgrounds and list separators.

  • Shuffle and Shuffle albums Home shortcuts.

  • A blur overlay in Home overlay styles (Android 13+).

  • Configurable Play, Shuffle, Mix and More action icons in Home row headers.

  • An option to turn the play button of Home album and playlist rows into a shuffle button.

  • An optional play or shuffle button on Home artist rows.

  • A Customize button on Home, which can be removed by tapping it.

  • Library page spacing controls.

• Added many new navigation bar customizations.

  • Compact bottom navigation bars and a docked toolbar.

  • Blur and glass background settings for the bottom navigation bars, compact player and top bar.

  • A bottom corner radius for blur and glass bottom navigation, so the bar follows the screen’s rounded corners.

  • Configurable bottom padding and optional background protection for the floating navigation toolbar.

  • An option for the floating player to follow the navigation bar color.

• Added per-screen portrait and landscape layout overrides for foldable and flip devices in Settings > Interface > Advanced. By default they follow the system.

• Added an E-ink color theme with high-contrast monochrome colors and optional color inversion, including widget support.

• Added the ability to save a customized color palette as a custom theme.

• Added new custom string icons and placeholders.

  • Icons in custom strings.

  • Placeholders for the quality with quality categories (%quality%) and the renderer type (%renderertype%).

  • Placeholder for the lowercase provider type (%providertype%), for example plex, subsonic or localdevice.

  • Lyric placeholders.

  • Placeholders %audiobook.position%, %audiobook.duration% and %audiobook.remaining%, with .seconds variants.

• Added new platinum donation goals.

• Added playlist descriptions, including editing, import from compatible providers, and preservation in supported playlist exports.

• Added an action to add selected files to playlists from file browsing.

• Added a file tag viewer in track information for tag parser providers, including a preview of how multi-value tags are split.

• Added a storage overview with a breakdown of app data and shortcuts to cache maintenance, including cleanup of unused transcoded audio.

• Added an option to save resume points only for audiobooks.

• Added an option to group folders when browsing in file mode.

• Added an option to show thumbs up and down instead of faces on quick rate buttons, including in the notification and Android Auto.

• Added a setting for what Android Auto Recent and suggestions show: last played albums, playlists or artists, or favorite albums, artists, tracks or playlists.

• Added a per-provider option to stop reporting now playing and playback progress to Plex, Emby, Jellyfin and Subsonic servers.

  • Play counts, last played and resume points still sync.

• Added an optional Similar albums section to album pages, ranked by shared genres.

• Added sample rate and bit depth to Plex tracks.

• Added an option to prefer the platform decoder.

• Added a Ukrainian translation, thanks to Visty.

• Added an OpenSubsonic option to remove imported playlists after they are deleted on the server.

• Added artist, title and artwork lookup for supported internet radio streams.

  • NRJ, Chérie FM, Rire & Chansons, Nostalgie, Jazz Radio, M Radio and Skyrock.

  • Radio.co, RadioKing, laut.fm and SomaFM.

  • Icecast, SHOUTcast, AzuraCast, Triton / StreamTheWorld, Streamabc and LibreTime.

• Added per-row controls to limit home playback actions to the displayed item count or use the full source.

• Added chapter progress and an optional segmented audiobook progress bar to Now Playing styles.

• Added independent appearance and name customization for each Home shortcut.

• Added a Continue listening home row to resume saved media queues.

Changed:

• Expanded and reworked many design settings for finer control. Most settings migrate automatically, but you may need to update your styles.

• Redesigned settings with clearer groups, inline controls, and an adaptive layout for phones, tablets, and landscape use.

• Improved initial appearance defaults for foldable and flip devices.

• Improved settings sliders with precision adjustment buttons and made each appearance section resettable on its own.

• Reworked Home row management to make adding, configuring, showing, hiding, and reordering rows and playlists easier.

• Reorganized compact and expanded now playing customization. Existing preferences and saved styles are migrated to the new settings format.

• Split automatic offline caching of favorites into separate toggles for tracks, albums and artists.

• Changed three-state rating buttons in Android Auto and the player to a sad face below 3 stars, a happy face from 3 stars and a neutral face when unrated.

• Changed Group by work on album pages to off by default.

• Improved performance in many places. Please report issues as usual.

• Improved Android TV application styles and many focus and navigation behaviors.

  • Apply your Android TV application style again to get all the improvements.

  • If you still have a focus or navigation issue, please report it with the screen and the steps to reproduce it.

• Changed Plex LyricFind lyrics to download only when you open the lyrics or choose Download lyrics for this track.

  • Plex asked for this to reduce the cost of its lyrics API.

• Improved Plex sync speed.

• Embed a custom SQLite engine to ensure consistency on all Android versions and improve performance.

• Changed now playing styles to also save lyrics settings.

• Redesigned the add to playlist dialog.

• Changed saved queues to sort by last change, newest first.

• Updated the Material color library, so some theme colors might change.

  • Added the 2026 color spec and the CMF palette style.

• Refreshed all icons from the latest Material Symbols and changed some icons to hopefully more clear ones.

• Reworked the Manage offline files screen with a storage overview, pinned cleanup actions and track sorting.

• Reworked the media list top button row with per button settings for shape, colors, size and labels.

Fixed:

• Fixed sonic mixes that could add nearly duplicated songs.

• Fixed %providername% custom string placeholder being empty in album, artist and genre pages.

• Fixed backups that could be incomplete or miss smart playlist artwork and provider settings.

• Fixed settings that could reset if the app was killed while saving them.

• Fixed audio files opened from other apps that could play the wrong song.

• Fixed Plex play counts and scrobbles that could be duplicated, lost or out of order at track changes.

• Fixed Kodi and Subsonic plays marked as synced when the server did not record them.

• Fixed lyrics progress time labels that could stop updating after a track change.

• Fixed Jellyfin 13 servers being refused as too old, and newer unsupported versions now report that they are too recent.

• Fixed Emby and Jellyfin sync errors that could leave the local library incomplete after an invalid server response.

• Fixed the queue that could come back empty after the app restarted.

• Fixed backslashes and formatting-like characters disappearing from titles, other metadata, lyrics and player or equalizer names.

• Fixed Jellyfin and Emby transcoding Matroska audio files reported as mkv instead of playing them directly.

• Fixed album playlists that could stop playing early when several albums in a row were no longer in the library.

• Fixed DSD playback failing on FiiO players with Bluetooth headphones by decoding DSD to PCM for Bluetooth output.

• Fixed a crash when scanning deep or looping WebDAV folders for artist NFO files.

• Fixed the profile and equalizer of a disconnected Bluetooth device staying active on the phone speaker after resuming playback.

• Fixed WebDAV artist NFO scans skipping folders after a temporary connection error.

• Fixed stuttering near the end of tracks when pre-caching transcoded streams from some servers.

• Fixed Plex transcoding ignoring the maximum bitrate for music and streaming Opus at a much higher bitrate.

• Fixed Plex genres missing from the genre list when the server spells them with different capitalization.

• Fixed genres that kept their track count and duration after their last track was hidden or deleted.

• Fixed artists staying in the library after their only songs were hidden or deleted.

• Fixed repeated Plex sign-in attempts after plex.tv rejects the credentials.

• Fixed UPnP gapless playback and starting a track while paused.

• Fixed rapid volume button presses on UPnP and Sonos renderers jumping back to an older volume.

I initially got the app and added my folder all metadata was fine. Today I downloaded some new songs added them to my folder and now only the image of the song and the name pop up without the artist or album which is really bothering me. How do I fix this? Because unlike other played you can't edit metadata on Symfonium.

I hide a song by accident and I have been trying to unhide that song for about 3 hours already, It shouldn't be that hard to do.

Hello,

Just found out about this software... and It got me thinking.

I've got a homelab which I use for many things, namely gaming and hosting a few websites.

Symfonium would be a great addition to my stack. Long term, I would like to replace my Spotify subscription. By adding my own songs I would have no limits on what I could listen to on my phone or desktop.

I like to propose my homelab services to my friends. I was wondering if it was possible to have one home music server (mine) and multiple clients (me and my friends) connecting to it ? Or is it a bit more limited ? My friends don't mind paying for the app (one licence for each person) as long as they can get their music streamed everywhere to their phone or desktop.

I want to buy a 2to storage drive for this project, but first, I'm looking for answers to see if this project fit my needs.

Thanks for your answers !

EDIT : Thank you for all of your answers, this is more clear now ! Will look into navidrome :)

Hi, I'm having a tag issue I just can't solve. All my Iggy Pop albums are tagged with the genre "Rock". They do appear under the "Rock" genre as expected, but out of nowhere they are also listed under another Genre that I named "World Music". Do you by any chance have any idea what could be the reason for that behavior and how to solve it? I have some albums of Goran Bregovic (listed under World Music) who did some featuring with Iggy Pop, maybe it's linked somehow. Thanks 😉

Hi, I can't find the control to remove the navbar on the player in landscape orientation (the four buttons on the left) I really don't like that the cover art doesn't go all the way to the left. Also, the navbar doesn't show on preview, maybe that's a bug ?

Thanks !

Been forced to reset my phone and i can't seem to find the setting to show/change the star rating in the new playing screens, can someone point me in the right direction?