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[Android Apps and Games] sverige80:
Thanks Jens, you have done a great Job!

One question:

SoundSeeder doesn't show the menu item "Equalizer" on the HTC One, but I have it on my Nexus 4...

Is the HTC One not supported by the equalizer?
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
HTC has removed the Standard Android Equalizer from its ROMS and replaced it with its "Beats Audio" engine.

SoundSeeder works with the standard Equalizer, but you should be able to install a standalone equalizer to adjust your music.
[Android Apps and Games] sverige80:
Thanks jekatt. Good to know.

I can only active or deactivate the Beats audio engine, no option to change a single band.

But I can live with that. If not I will check the app store for a nice third party equalizer... :good:
[Android Apps and Games] SuperHelix:
This is awesome! :laugh:

Now I don't even have to unlock my phone to turn up the volume of my sound system!

Really great.
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Thank you. :)

If anyone of you has more ideas for such features, please let me know.

Your feedback is always highly appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] sverige80:
Could you please add support for scrobbling to lastfm?

Many audio players are using the "Simple Last.fm Scrobbler" for this... https://github.com/tgwizard/sls
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Thank you, I will check this.

A full integration would be nicer than requiring another app, but this looks like a nice tool.
[Android Apps and Games] sverige80:
Great. I'm looking forward to it. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
It's already done. SLS is really a nice tool.

LastFM support will be available with the next update. :)
[Android Apps and Games] pilzkopf92:
NICE app!

Hey, Greetings from Germany.

I tried your App and INSTANTLY bought it! New use for 2 old Smartphones.

BUT i have a Question: Is a Windows-App/Software planed?

And if not: Are you willing to cooperate? <- Sounds wrong :D

I'm a Student and i would love to help you develop!

Greets, Olli
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Hey Olli.

Thank you very much! :)

At the moment I don't have enough time to develop SoundSeeder Apps for other devices.

But at least a Speaker App for other platforms would be a very nice enhancement.

Do you have experience in Java development?

Greets

Jens
[Android Apps and Games] moogaa:
grate

nice (thanks)
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
SoundSeeder v0.9.1

Hey folks,

SoundSeeder v0.9.1 is released.

New in this version:

- The free version now contains ad banners and allows you to use two speakers for 15minutes before you need to reconnect

- Last.FM scrobbling via "Simple Last.FM Scrobbler" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...om.adam.aslfms)

- The Buffersize is about 50% larger, this should reduce playback issues

- Minor bugfixes
[Android Apps and Games] sverige80:
Thanks jekatt! Works great...
[Android Apps and Games] RichardG867:
Great app, but I couldn't get the free version to work properly between a random Motorola phone running 4.1.2 (the player), a no-name phone running 4.0.4 and a Galaxy Tab 2 running 4.4.2.

Tried with and without a portable hotspot, with one and two speakers. The speakers start stuttering after a few seconds and eventually stop playing and counting time, without losing the connection. If I pause and then unpause the player, the speakers start playing and the whole process repeats.
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Hi Richard.

I think this is an issue on player side. Have you tried to use your galaxy tab 2 as player?

Some android phones reduce the Wi-Fi speed after the display turns off, might this be the reason?

Please check your wifi settings for any energy saving options.
[Android Apps and Games] RichardG867:
I may try using the Galaxy Tab 2 as a player later. None of the devices have energy saving options enabled, and I have the "Stay awake" option keeping them awake.
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Thanks Richard.

Is the current version of SoundSeeder the first one you are running on your devices?

Or did you have these issues already with the previous version (v0.9)?

With the latest update the buffersize of the player has changed,this might be the reason for some connection issues...
[Android Apps and Games] RichardG867:
Yes, this is the first version I'm running.
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Ok, please send me a PM with your mail address, if you are interested in installing a test version, to figure out how we can fix your connection issues.
[Android Apps and Games] HansL314:
Feature request

Hi, I came upon soundseeder when looking for ROCKI updates.

I liked it so much I immediately became a paying customer.

Would it be possible to have soundseeder forward any and all sounds from one Android device to the connected speakers?

Obviously the player will not be a phone, but a currently stationary old tablet.

This would allow for HomeCasting all sources, in my case spotify would be the source, but a SqueezePlayer or even one of the Music subscriptions should also work.

Thanks,

Hans​
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Hello Hans.

Streaming system sound to other devices would require that the device is rooted.

Currently I'm busy with adding some more features to the standard Player, but when this is done I will start developing a version for rooted devices. But this will take some time... :)

Till then you can stream Google Music, online radio streams and the audio files on your phone/tablet...
[Android Apps and Games] SuperHelix:
Google TV

Can anyone tell me, if the SoundSeeder Speaker is compatible to a Google TV?
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Hey. I don't have a Google TV to test with, but it should work, yes.

The Speaker App does not require a touch screen and should be installable directly via the Play Store.
[Android Apps and Games] Tailess:
Hi,

great app. Make a lot of fun :).

One suggestion from me:

If you use Google Music, hide the icon in status bar please.

AND

start app at system startup.

ps: How i can play music on chrome? I installed Google Cast. The Cast Button in bar can not find my device.
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Hello.

The Google Cast plugin has been updated last week and is no longer compatible to SoundSeeder.

I'm not sure if this could be fixed.

Google is changing the Chromecast API to version 2 and is now using encryption.

The Android Google Music Player is still supporting API version 1 and I hope it stays compatible with future updates!
[Android Apps and Games] spyne82:
Hi there. First ... This is a must have app... Great.:thumbup: but is there another way to get the paid Version without playstore... I Can not pay over playstore... Maybe PayPal or something other... Thanks:)
[Android Apps and Games] samalert:
Great App

I have installed app and works good on nexus 7 (player+speaker). But when i try to download the same on htc one v it doesnt support player app, i had no problem installing on speaker. Will player never support htc one v.
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
The Player requires Android 4.1 or higher, the HTC One V is running Android 4.0...

Your only chance to get it running is updating the phone by installing a custom rom, sorry.
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Hey there. At the moment there is no alternative way to get the paid version, no.

Are you using any other app store on your phones?
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Google Music Support

Chromecast Emulation and Google Music

Unfortunately the Google Music support of SoundSeeder might (probably will) break with one of the next updates of the Google Music App.

With the recent update of the Chromecast SDK to v2.0 Google changed the way Chromecast Apps are "speaking" with the Chromecast Stick. This updates makes it very difficult (if not impossible) for 3rd Party Apps to emulate the Chromecast API. (Because of encryption / authentication).

I will do my best to support Google Music in SoundSeeder in the future, but can't promise anything...

As soon, as the Google Music Player will be updated to CC API 2.0 it will stop working with SoundSeeder.

For more details check out:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2379324

https://plus.google.com/102702012409033978440/posts/DmXuTEBow3E

https://github.com/dz0ny/leapcast/issues/96
[Android Apps and Games] spyne82:
Yes i use the Amazon APP store.. Could you upload the APP there too?
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Ok. Before I can updoad it, SoundSeeder needs to support the Amazon inapp purchase. This will take some time, but I'll inform you, as soon as i'm done.
[Android Apps and Games] spyne82:
Many thanks:thumbup::D
[Android Apps and Games] spyne82:
Any news on uploading to amazon-app-store? :o
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Not yet, sorry.

At the moment I'm working on an update for SoundSeeder, that includes many new features.

After this update I will bring the App to alternative app stores.
[Android Apps and Games] spyne82:
Okay ni problem, btw. If you upload this to another appstore could you upload it to european amazon store? Thx
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Good news for users of Chrome and the Google Cast extension.

With the latest update the compatibility of Google Music and SoundSeeder has been restored.

You can now again select your Google Music in your Chrome Browser and cast it to SoundSeeder running on your phone / tablet.
[Android Apps and Games] GuerillaMoves:
Very thankful for this app

I searched high and low for an app like this.

Many thanks for putting in so much work, and your fantastic responsiveness. I will be coordinating the music at a big event this weekend, and making full use of SoundSeeder.

My one suggestion would be to improve the functionality/ease of use of the playlists. Having to retype the name, and overwrite the existing one whenever a single or batch of new songs is added to the playlist is time intensive. Also, there should be an option to put any uncategorized songs into their own playlist automatically. This would enable the segregation of songs between playlisted songs, and uncategorized ones, As it stands, if I switch from playing a playlist, to doing a random shuffle of all the songs on my device, there is a good chance I will get a repeated song, since the playlisted songs are included in the "general" population of songs. Having a setting whereby uncategorized (non-playlisted) songs are put into their own, self-updating playlist would solve this problem. One last item would be to allow for playlists to be started from any point within the playlist (for instance, manually starting a playlist from the 3rd song in the list, then automatically continuing along through the playlist).

Thanks again for such a well-functioning solution. Props.
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Hey. Thanks for your feedback!

You are right, the handling of playlists is not very comfortable. I will make some minor improvements for the next update and thinks about a better way to handle them in general.

Your ideas are very nice!
[Android Apps and Games] boskabouter:
awesome app

Hello

Thx for this great app you made, i gladfully paid for it as well.

I have some minor problems with playing from my network stored music.

For Example....

To browse music on my server i have to go to the location with ef file explorer, then i can choose my song, then choose soundseeder player and then i can add it to the playing list wich it will play fine!

But when i want to choose another song from the same folder i have to go back to ef file explorer each time, wich makes it a time consuming thing to even play like one folder of music.

So if I have made my playlist with songs in it wich are stored on my server (i'm talking about a hd connected in my home network) but when i try to open it immediately it fails to play. If however i open up file explorer and go to my hd to make it wake up, then soundseeder plays it again.

I love this app, and whenever i'm sitting around the house I use it to here it on one or two of my sound systems.

Thx
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Hey there and thank you for your support! :)

Your problem sounds strange... Is the playlist located on the hdd or did you create it with soundseeder on your device?

And is your HDD available via UPNP or do you access it via samba (with credentials)? Can you send me the playlist?
[Android Apps and Games] psychoragondin:
Power consumption ! Bluetooth is much more battery friendly than wifi (especially when one of the phone has to be a wifi hotspot). I'd love to use SoundSeeder during long trips with friends, but in these situations, battery saving becomes something really important. After all, bluetooth has been designed to transmit audio while minimizing energy consumption, so it looks like the perfect protocole to implement.

I found apps that does exactly that on google play store (bluetooth audio player and SynSong), but the are way too buggy and don't work properly.
[Android Apps and Games] khrystyan27:
Hi!

I have an Asus Transformer TF300T tablet, and I want to know if it's possible to stream music to 2 bluetooth speakers simultaneously using this app.
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Yes. If you have two android devices, each one connected to one of the speakers, you can play your music on both speakers simultaneously... But keep in mind that the bluetooth connection adds a little delay to the music playback. Maybe you'll need to adjust the synchronization manually.
[Android Apps and Games] khrystyan27:
Isn't this possible with just one device (my tablet)?
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
No. One device, one bluetooth connection...
[Android Apps and Games] StercoreCode:
Works as required. All functions that were I need.
[Android Apps and Games] egoogins:
Google Play Support

Are there any plans to add google play support again? I have been searching for an app to support multiroom synchronized streaming for more than a year and am very excited to have just found your app!
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Hey egoogins.

Yes, with the next update you will be able to use Google Music again.

But you will have to uninstall the latest update of the Google Music Player. The last version that supports casting to 3rd party Apps is Google Music v5.5.x. You als need to deactivate your automatic updates in the Play Store.
[Android Apps and Games] egoogins:
ETA?

Thanks! That sounds awesome, I"m very excited. Is an update scheduled, or could you provide a rough estimated time? I've already rolled back to v5.5.x and am curious if the upcoming wait is on the order of weeks or months. Thanks again
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
I've been working on the new version for some month now and it's almost done. I'd like to release the update by the end of october, so please stay tuned and push me to get ready. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
SoundSeeder V1.0

Hello everyone!

After more than one year of development SoundSeeder is ready to leave the beta-stage. :o

Version 1.0 brings a bunch of new features, enhancements and bugfixes:

- New: Online Radio Mode

More than 4500 Radio Stations

Powered by Dirble.com

- New: YouTube support via semperVidLinks

- New: Player and Speaker App merged

- New: Navigation Bar

- New: Landscape Mode

- New: Advanced settings to change buffer size

- Android 5 (Lollipop) support

- Google Music support restored (GM v5.5 and older)

- Improved Playlist support

- Connection and sync error fixed

- Faster caching of streamed media files

- Improved error handling

- and much more...!

More information, FAQs, a Support Forum and Downloads are available on http://soundseeder.com

I hope you like the new version!

Jens
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Raspberry Pi support

[IMG="SoundSeeder Java for Windows and Linux"]http://soundseeder.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/javaspeaker.jpg[/IMG]

With the release of SoundSeeder 1.0 we also released a new Application to connect your Windows and Linux PC as wireless Speaker to your Android device.

The Application requires a JavaSE 1.6 Runtime Environment and was successfully tested on the Rapsberry Pi running the stock Raspbian OS (Debian based Linux).

To download the Application go to http://soundseeder.com/downloads or check the first post of this thread.

The .zip file contains a readme with the basic instructions, how to run the Java application.

In short:

Unzip the downloaded archive

Open a command line in the unzipped folder

Run: java -jar soundseederspeaker.jar

To stop the application press CTRL + C

The following commandline arguments are available:

-c,--channel <arg> speaker channel configuration [mono, left, right,
stereo], default: stereo
-d,--debug enable debug mode
-h,--help show this dialog
-i,--ip <arg> prefered IP binding. Specify the IP Address of your
local network interface, if multiple interfaces are
available.
-n,--name <arg> set speaker device name
-v,--volume <arg> volume on startup [0-15], default: 12

[IMG="soundseeder command line"]http://soundseeder.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/raspberry1k.png[/IMG]

Your feedback is very welcome.

For further information visit http://soundseeder.com

Greets

Jens
[Android Apps and Games] SuperHelix:
OMG, are you serious? :laugh:

Thats exactly what I'm looking for. I'm using the raspberry pi as dlna renderer, connected to my hi-fi system but the delay horrible and there is no chance to connect multiple receivers at the same time.

Can't wait to see it running!
[Android Apps and Games] SuperHelix:
Raspberry Pi support

Just tested the Java App on my Windows Notebook and on a Raspberry Pi.

Worked out of the box, really great and the perfect tool for my new years eve Party tomorrow! :good:

Can anyone tell me how to keep the Java App running, when I log of from the Rapsberry Pi?

Using ssh/putty to launch it, when I close the session, the process is killed. :(
[Android Apps and Games] giftkugel:
Try nohup

Try nohup: "nohup java -jar soundseederspeaker.jar &"

Hope it works.

Regards

Simon
[Android Apps and Games] Nightshadow931:
Does what is says, pretty useful app.

Thanks op!
[Android Apps and Games] sverige80:
Totally agree. :good:

I just installed the update and tested it a bit...

Even the Google Music Mode is working again. I had to uninstall the latest Play Music update, but its worth the possibility to cast to soundseeder! :o
[Android Apps and Games] sverige80:
Radio Mode

Hey again.

I've one more question.

The Online Radio Mode is awesome too. Works great and a large choice of swedish radio stations. :D

But is there a way to add my own Stations to the library?
[Android Apps and Games] SuperHelix:
Yes, thanks Simon, that works :good:
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
The best way would be to add the station to the dirble database:

https://dirble.com/addstation

But note, that it might take some hours until you can update your stations in soundseeder, the station needs to be aproved by the dirble admins.

You can also add the station url directly in soundseeder and save it as playlist. Switch to the Standard Music Mode and open the action bar menu to enter the URL...
[Android Apps and Games] Katie Ka:
Not bad!

Not bad!
[Android Apps and Games] sverige80:
Great,thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] SuperHelix:
I tried to run the Java App with the OpenJDK 1.6, installed on another Raspberry Pi, but I had no luck.

It says:

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java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.EventLoop

On my second Pi it is perfectly running with the Oracle JDK. Do I have to switch or is this just a misconfiguration?
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Yes, I'd recommend to switch to the Oracle JDK if possible.

I tested the implementation with Oracle JDK 1.7 and 1.8, which use ALSA, not the pulseaudio...

1. Install Oracle JDK7:

​

sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-jdk

2: Change the default Java:

​

sudo update-java-alternatives -s jdk-7-oracle-armhf
[Android Apps and Games] jdstrydom:
Hi,

I can verify the oracle java works, where the default on my linux lite install didn't.

In my case I downloaded the tar.gz and extracted to alternative location (didn't want to do the install)

http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u71-b14/jdk-7u71-linux-x64.tar.gz

I then invoked with:

./neworaclejava/java -jar soundseeder_speaker_java-0.4boundseederspeaker.jar

Works perfect, thanks
[Android Apps and Games] sonnentautomate:
Not working on Raspbmc

It's working fine on raspbian but I can't get it working on raspbmc.

With raspbmc's default java it just gives me the error "Master gain not supported" (or something similar).

After installing the Oracle Version it says " No audio device available!".

Do you have any ideas why?
[Android Apps and Games] sonnentautomate:
SOLVED

You need to install alsa and add snd_bcm2835 to "etc/modules" :laugh:
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
Great, thanks for sharing! :)
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
SoundSeeder V1.0.1

Update Jan. 08th - V1.0.1

- Streaming via https

- Improved Youtube support via semperVidLinks

- Several minor bugfixes

semperVidLinksFree is a free Youtube and DailyMotion link extractor tool for Android.

More Details are available here

The apk file of SoundSeeder 1.0.1 is available on Google Play and in the first post in this thread...
[Android Apps and Games] sonnentautomate:
Install a custom Google Music version next to the original one

While SoundSeeder won't work with the newest Google Music version, I decided to create a modded version of Google Music 5.5 with another package name.

Here is the link to the guide:

http://xdaforums.com/android/general/mod-google-play-music-change-package-t2997951
[Android Apps and Games] SuperHelix:
Nice idea! Didn't know that this is possible.

I guess it's not allowed to share the modded apk in your thread?
[Android Apps and Games] sonnentautomate:
I don't know, but I'm not sure if I want to find it out :) . It shouldnt take too much time to build it yourself
[Android Apps and Games] glitched2000:
I can never seem to get this working :(

Device 1: Samsung S5, stock carrier rom 4.4 rooted with BT connection to bose soundlink mini

Device 2: Nexus 7 (2012) lollipop 5.0 with BT connection to an identical bose soundlink mini

connected via wi-fi hotspot with either the S5 or the nexus 7 as the host and either the S5 or nexus 7 as the player: Playing any MP3 (128-230kbps) locally saved to the player device causes the speaker device audio stream to skip/stutter and play out of sync. no amount of offset resolves the playback stutter. Setting buffer size to small/med/large only changes the amount of times that audio will skip/stutter.

I have tested the exact same scenario (interchanging devices as speaker/player and as wifi hotspot host/client) with an LG nexus 6 and completely different bluetooth speakers (logitech boombox and JBL powerup) with the exact same result: The device running in speaker mode has stuttered/skipping audio playback.

Finally, with my S5 connected to my bose soundlink mini and an i7 running x64 server2012 R2 enterprise using standard analog audio out to bookshelf speakers, I ran the java client as a speaker using my home wi-fi network. The audio stream to the java client had the exact same stuttering issues in the 2 scenarios listed previously.

audio sources were varied: mp3 files between 3 minutes to 1hr in length saved locally to the device SD card/local device storage or shared via a file manager (es file explorer) and cloud storage (google drive).

I even tried a 5 minute stock standard click track/metronome which also skipped/stuttered.
[Android Apps and Games] jekatt:
The problems seems to be located on player-side. Can you please try to disconnect the player device from your bluetooth speaker?!

Bluetooth playback has direct impact on the android audiobuffer sizes. The Android audio API behaves different if you are connected to an A2DP device, to reduce the playback delay. This might cause your isses, I haven't tested SoundSeeder with bluetooth speakers yet...