Astiga
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Astiga is a music streaming service for your own music. Easily play back the music that is stored on your cloud service, directly in your browser or on your phone.
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- Subscription
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- Android Tablet
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
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What is Astiga?
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Elsten Software Licensing
Proprietary and Commercial product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $4 and $5 per month.Rating
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I've been looking for something like this for sometime now because the issue with 'locker' based music players seem to always have some kind of limit (like limited storage or doesn't support FLAC) or cost more than what I'm willing to pay. Subsonic is great (really!), but the issue I have with that is I don't want to leave my home computer on 24/7 just to stream music from it.
Astiga is a lot like Subsonic, but instead of turning your computer into a streaming server, it plays music from 'Cloud' services (that you're probably already using). For me, I'm using my 4 TB Lifetime plan that I got from pCloud to store my FLAC music collection.
Astiga does offer both a free version, which is very usable, or a premium version that adds a few more features, currently for just €4 a month (or about $4.41 US at current conversion rates).
What's also nice is the developer of Astiga also listens to feedback and adds new features based on peoples request. He has a feedback forum where people can add suggestions. I've already submitted some suggestions that have already been implemented.
Astiga was the missing piece for me to be able to enjoy my music from any device without the hassle of running a server myself! I keep my music library exactly where I've always kept it in Google Drive, and Astiga makes it trivial to stream my music on my phone and my laptop.
The cool thing about Astiga is that can read files from various sources, I happen to use Google drive to store my music, but Astiga is an agnostic player, it does not care where you keep your files. Forget trying to use Spotify or similar, they have severe restrictions regarding lockers, location and access. Google Play had a good system but that is history now. I had a problem recently with Astiga (I tend to overthink issues) and Dan, the author, quickly and patiently helped me solve the problem. The player has a slight learning curve but a minuscule problem in light of the app's main feature, that of reading most any depository. I have zero regrets in using Astiga.
Thanks @qpackard - if you get the time, could you drop us a line to info@asti.ga about what introduced a "slight learning curve" - if you can remember? Maybe the storage account setup? Or is it the look-and-feel of the player? Or something else?
It is just the look and feel. I have been too well trained by Spotify and Google Play and unfairly judge similar ideas by their implementations. Mine is a first-world problem. I intend to keep Astiga, I will not look elsewhere.
I started using Astiga when Google Music folded, which was a several years ago, and I have been very happy with it. It lets me play my own carefully tagged music collection from anywhere. I originally tried out Astiga because it lets me just stream from the cloud, rather than having to set up my own server or something like that. So if you have your own music library that's already backed up on the cloud anyway, I think this is the perfect service.
Indispensable app for me, loads my cloud backed up classical music database sorted by composer work performance. Other services don't support the folder based structure and load effortlessly from cloud. I use it daily to listen to my music collection at home or on the go. It downloads and caches tracks so you can always prepare some if you won't have Internet.
I'm an opera fan, and have thousands of hours of music that I want to organize by genre, composer, artist, and other attributes. Astiga connects to my personal library and lets me take control and stream it anywhere. No one else does this -- the others all act like I want shuffled songs, and not complete works that take over 3 hours to listen to in the right order. Can't use anything else.
Awesome experience!