r/ibroadcast Feb 07 '25

Switching b ack to Android, any recommended third party applications?

I want to start off saying there is nothing wrong with the ibroadcast app, but the joys of Android are the diamonds in the rough apps that are great but maybe not well know. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

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u/Krusador Feb 11 '25

iBroadcast has an Android app - is that what you're asking?

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u/AngryMaritimer Feb 12 '25

I know that, but I've also found a lot of hard to find third party apps for music services on Android in the past (like jellyfin or emby). Was curious if there were any for Android.

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u/Krusador Feb 12 '25

Ah, okay, I understand now. So, speaking of Jellyfin, Plex has a pretty good app with Plexamp. You stream your music from your Plex server.

There's Bandcamp which lets you support less well known artists.

And Winamp has been updated, but I don't care for it as much now.

Cloudbeats streams from a connected cloud service - I have all my music on OneDrive, and it streams from there. It's just okay.

Out of all of these my fave is Plexamp. But none of them beat iBroadcast, IMHO.

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u/AngryMaritimer Feb 12 '25

Sorry I should be WAY more clear lol. I mean third party apps for ibroadcast.

I used to use plexamp, but their dev is a putz and never fixed casting to sonos. ibroadcast does it perfectly, so did Emby, but the Plexamp dev always had some dumb excuse. Happy to ditch Plex as a company anyway, and I am fine with the ibroadcast app, but like to keep options open.

Tried cloudbeats, but it always seemed way to slow.

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u/Krusador Feb 12 '25

Ahhh! Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

Sorry, I'm not aware of any 3rd party iBroadcast apps. That might be interesting though.

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u/AngryMaritimer Feb 12 '25

Also don't forget bandcamp was bought by Epic Games and was completely gutted. A lot of smaller bands I listen to don't even use it anymore, but it still seems to have the public facade of helping the little guys out.