I just hit Rescan The app then proceeded to delete everything previously imported – MusicStreamer Review

This app had actually recently been performing better with the VPN connection but has for some reason, now completely stopped functioning. It will no longer connect via my VPN connection no matter how many times I close and restart the app or restart/reboot my phone. The VPN connection works fine with the Stratospherix FileBrowser app so it’s not the connection. Any feedback would be appreciated. I’m now rating this app 2 stars in the hope that somehow, it may start functioning again. Original review: This app seemed to be exactly what I’d been looking for as an alternative to the iTunes/Apple Music app. I needed something that would approximate iTunes functionality but with FLAC capabilities. I was glad when I finally found something. I interfaced the app with one music file directory on a network drive to start off. It quickly scanned the entire directory and neatly summarized all my music files into album/artist format for quick and easy access to search for and listen to anything contained in the directory. The music player functions reasonably well and sounds great either through my device or streamed to my audio system. I invested some time with the features of the app running searches, sorting music, building playlists and downloading tracks I wanted to store on the device for listening on the go. However, there seem to be some serious limitations with the system. While the rescanning function initially seemed to work well picking up additions and changes to the directory, it eventually became clear that if I tried to import any music from a different directory, system warnings appeared indicating my saved playlists would be deleted and the app would totally reset to the subsequent directory I wanted to pull additional music from. Still within the main directory I set up the app with, I just hit Rescan on the menu and the app then proceeded to delete everything previously imported including all the files I directly downloaded to the device for future use while on the go ? I have no idea why it did this and no warning signs appeared giving any indication something like this would occur. So in summary, there appears to be no ability to accumulate and maintain data or downloaded files imported to the system from multiple sources. If you need to add anything from a different source directory, it will completely wipe everything out and start over again from the new source directory. In other words, it’s all or nothing at all from a single location and anything added from elsewhere will blow up everything previously done. Obviously with a huge music library this is not reasonable or sustainable. I can’t rely on a system that purges and resets itself every time I need to add more data from another source. I need different music to be stored separately on my network drives. This app only seems to work on the basis of pulling absolutely everything in from a root level single source location without the ability to pick and choose from multiple sources as you go along. Am I missing something here?? I would like to stick with this app as it essentially does everything I need it to do. I just can’t use it under the circumstances with its current apparent limitations. Short of having to move things around on my source directories or bogging down the system with thousands of files I don’t want or need to include, is there anything else I can reasonably do that I may not be aware of or are there any system fixes that could be implemented?? Update: Seen some more of this app and some others that don’t even come close so I’m now going with 3 stars. That being said, as an iTunes alternative with FLAC capabilities this app is good but not great. As many have pointed out here, it just lacks some features and capabilities that users would expect that would make it easier to use and/or bring better results. It’s a great start but it just hasn’t reached the finish line. I’d like to stay with this app and would really like to see the developers push it across the finish line into “great” territory.
Review by sdk022769 on MusicStreamer.