Samba Network Music Player

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.4
3.02K reviews
100K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Listen to your network stored music collection as if it was all on your phone!
Enjoy music right away, no complicated setup required. Samba Player works with shared folders from Windows, Linux, Mac, home routers, media players, network drives (NAS) or any network device that can share folders.
- works over WiFi, Ethernet or even in Hotspot mode.
- can also play files from the device's memory or external sdcard
- music formats: MP3, MP4 audio (m4a), Ogg Vorbis (ogg) and FLAC
- save passwords and quick jump to shares using Bookmarks
- smart streaming lets you enjoy your music better on slow networks
- download the playlist with one click and listen to it on the go!
- edit, shuffle and repeat your playlist
- supports Bluetooth, AVRCP metadata, album art and media controls on accessories, car stereos, Android Auto and Android Wear

Samba Player is still undergoing development, please email the developer for any issues! 3Cats want you to be a happy listener!

Please support 3Cats Software by rating this app if you like it!
Updated on
Mar 9, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
App activity and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5
2.45K reviews
Kev D
March 9, 2024
I like the very easy access this gives to SMB music shares. I love the way this is folder based. The only thing missing from this app is buttons to jump back 10 seconds or jump ahead 10 seconds while playing a track. I hate scrubbing the seek bar to try to cue to the middle of a track. Please add a button to jump ahead or back 10 seconds while track is playing (long press seek button maybe?). Podcast apps can do this. I wish this app could.
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A Google user
March 16, 2020
This app does all I need and does it very well. I'm using Android 9.0 on a smart phone. The app let me easily connect to my samba "public" share set up on a RaspberryPi 3 running the Linux Raspbian OS. The music library is about 25GB of MP3s, and this was scanned reasonably quickly. It is easy to select a folder and play all tracks. Can't speak to the Playlist options because I generally just play an album and then select another. Performance/usage statistics are collected by default, but that can be disabled. This is a great app - recommended.
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Bob Symington
December 10, 2022
Great music app. I have a bunch of old Christmas CDs that I wanted to listen to and this app did the trick. I justed used Media Player on my Windows PC and ripped them as MP3 to my external hard drive attached to my WiFi router. I play the songs on my tablet but also bluetooth to my Echo Plus device. Alexa will pause, play next, etc... I couldn't ask for more.
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3Cats Software
December 11, 2022
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What's new

2.5.2
- Fixes for Android 14
2.5
- Sleep Timer!
- Go to bed listening to music that automatically stops when the timer is up!
- Or even better, when the timer is up and the current song ends!
2.4
- Multiple Playlists support!
- Playlists are saved automatically. Recall them, rename them, delete them!
2.3
- You can now add all Music in selected Folders recursively!
- To select a Folder, Long-Tap on it!
- To select all Folders, use Select All when something is already selected!