WebDAV a Music Library for Playback via PowerAmp

[BourgeoisDirk]

Hey, first off, love your app. Am using it for CalDAV, and have tried to use it for WebDAV.
Mainly, because my new phone no longer seems to support MicroSD cards, i am stuck with a large Music library on my NAS which i can only carry a fraction of on my on-device storage :x
I'm an avid user of the PowerAmp Android music player, and succeeded in using DAVx5 to have my NAS Music library show up on the phone using WebDAV.
After adding this WebDAV library to my PowerAmp player, all seemed fine. Except buffering ..

I am guessing this is more their turf than yours ? But i might ask anyway.
In LAN or WAN, doesn't matter, i get a lot of skipping in the music playback due to buffering issues.
Is there anything that can be done on your end to resolve this ?

I have asked to same on the PowerAmp side, but so far it seems to be on the wishlist for a long time with not a lot of votes for implementing this.
(Yes there are alternatives to PowerAmp, which natively support Web playback properly, but i am still to come across one that can hold a candle up to PowerAmp)

TLDR: is it somehow possible to implement a buffer through DAVx5 WebDAV ?
If not, just close this..

[rfc2822]

Hello,

It's exicting to see how WebDAV over DAVx5 can be used!

There's surely much room for WebDAV caching and buffering improvements. Would be very cool to make these improvements, but currently we have other big projects (like WebDAV-Push), so I don't know when we will find time for it.

[q-wertz]

Didn't play too much around with it (or maybe got your setup wrong) but I have installed the Nextcloud Music app. It has a Ampache (and Subsonic) streaming API.

After setting up the NC app in the browser I connected Power Ampache 2 (on my phone) using the link that you can copy from the NC Music app webinterface. For me it works flawlessly so far...
Note: You need to generate an API password in the NC Music app. Took me a while to find out why my normal NC password was not accepted 😁 😆

[BourgeoisDirk]

So, let me get this straight..
Your idea of an argument is "I haven't tried much, but here is an app which is designed with streaming and buffering in mind and it works fine" ... ?
Duh, i could choose any streaming app and it would work fine, you're entirely missing the point of this conversation.

The target is to have a Media Player, like PowerAmp, which is built for playing local media, not streaming.
And to use DAVx5's WevDAV feature to have my NAS Music Folder available to this player.
It does work, but neither DAVx5 or PowerAmp are currently built with buffering (streaming) in mind ..

You are presenting a moot point, I suggest you actually take the time to read what a conversation is about before "contributing"

[q-wertz]

No need to get abusive. This is a discussion platform not an issue report.

You statet

i am still to come across one that can hold a candle up to PowerAmp

so i interpreted it as "I would like to use this app to listen to music that is stored on a WebDAV server".

It was quite late and I had some NC related stuff/issues in mind when I read the report and tried to help you but yeah, you don't have Nextcloud, only a NAS and I mixed up PowerAmp and Power Ampache 2. Again, local time was about 1am when I stumbled into your post. I event stated I might have gotten your setup wrong. I'm very sorry and I hope you can forgive me.

With "Didn't play too much around with it" I tried to emphasize, that I cannot make strong statement how well my described setup works in every day usage as I only use it occasionally.

As you give life advises I would like to give you one back: Don't insult people in a OSS discussion forum when they try to help you.