Hello community, today I want to present to you the work done on Tempo in recent months. This new version brings improvements to Android Auto, a first use of the OpenSubsonic API, synchronized song lyrics and the ability to customize the home screen.
As usual, Tempo is free and open source, by the community and for the community. You can follow the development on Github and you can download it from F-Droid as well.
If you appreciate the work put into Tempo, remember that you can star the project on Github or make a donation! It’s not much but it’s useful to help the project grow and give visibility to the app.
What does
a first use of the OpenSubsonic API
Mean?
The OpenSubsonic project aims to extend and improve the classic Subsonic APIs in various ways: by adding new endpoints, clarifying existing APIs, or extending functionality. All while maintaining backward compatibility with the old APIs. Understanding whether the server supports the API, requesting the list of supported extensions and acting accordingly is the first step to integrating the OpenSubsonic API. Initial work was done with synchronized lyrics using an endpoint that does not exist in the classic version of the API but was introduced by OpenSubsonic.
Oh okay, so up until now it just supported SubSonic and now it supports both SubSonic and OpenSubSonic.
As a Navidrome host, will this benefit me?
As far as I known, subsonic is currently closed source and other reimplemented the api with open source programs. Than some people got together to make a standard that was not tied to a closed source programs.
I found this and this which seems to flesh out what it is pretty well.
The tl;dr is they added some flexibility to the API because since subsonic went closed source everybody’s been working off the original specs which doesn’t account for all the extra bells and whistles that have been added in the past seven years.
Looks pretty and is stable, but two fatal flaws:
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Browsing by genres displays individual pieces/songs, not albums. Browsing albums or artists doesn’t allow any filtering by genres, years or any other metadata. Haven’t found a way to change that behaviour and as someone who listens to albums, not songs, and has thousands of albums this is a complete dealbreaker for me.
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No support for UPnP/DLNA to stream from my phone to my stereo (or, for that matter, any modern AV receiver/streamer/network stereo receiver all which support UPnP/DLNA).
To add to this list
- Smart Playlists. I know it’s being added to OpenSubSonic but I would like to see it in Tempo
- Ability to rate tracks in the now playing UI
- Ability to change the list order of tracks
- Support for multiple queues
- It says lyric support is added, but where?
- Tooltips for all the things. Not only is this imperative for accessibility, but some things are confusing, attempting to hold on them for an explanation would be nice. Like what’s the ascending chart thing for?
- There’s no way to get from Now Playing to an album
- Allow users to configure the how much we need to scrobble as my preference is 30 seconds or 30% whichever is lower
- Allow users to set where cached/downloaded songs are stored.
Regarding #5 go to the now playing song and tap on the album cover. 4 options should come up. Its the bottom right option.
Side note. I know the other options have download and add to playlist, but I have no idea what the option with the arrow going up does.
I think this is the first subsonic android client that is not an eyesore. I wanted to use something like this for a long time but the clients were simply to ugly and aesthetics are important to me. I will definitely give it a try and maybe even submit some PR if I find something missing and have time to contribute. You have my star.
Thanks for this! I tried tempo like a year ago but kept using substreamer. Time (haha) to give it another shot.
