8player Pro App Reviews

The only DLNA app where we h client app worked well. What a value!

Doesn’t work.

Used to be the best. Now it no longer connects to dlna server or HDD recorder.

It will connect but nothing else, does not play any video or show pictures.

I have been scripting a ubuntu server for personnel sync of all of my content from my cellular devices without corp business prying their eyes and me having to give my content to and signing my privacy over. For the time being, this has been what I needed to suffice.

Only thing really missing is security for settings, ability to turn off download ability, and ability to filter what is available on Home Screen to allow kids to watch and maybe only access a DLNA server or Favorites.

It's awesome but I need to play the files that are in my phone that I put under TV with iTunes how can I do that that's so important no sense in downloading files twice to make it work with your app other than that I give this app for stars

It was working fine but after the update SMB no longer works

Bad design, with icon takes too much space, cannot show full file name. Useless now.

Best DLNA music player for the iPhone. Only gripe: Download All does not play albums in the Music area in the right order. I have the order set to Track N, but it plays the downloaded music in alpha order. UPDATE: connecting to a Bluetooth speaker is very unstable. I use a JBL Extreme and a couple of other smaller speakers. Pausing music causes the DLNA connection to be dropped a few minutes later when continuing playing. This is with ios12 but has existed as a problem since gapless playback was introduced.

Great app. Sometimes it suddenly halts when downloading but even so it's pretty cool to listen directly from my storage using dlna and also locally after download. I recommend .

However, last version has a glitch. Trying to open file and the app keeps re-opening and closing non stop!!! Any fix to it! Thanks.

I love this app is awesome, I can see my movies and music from this app. Love it!!!!!

No help, no directions, no service. Don't waste your money. Would ask fir my $6 back, but I've wasted enough time trying to get the app to work.

Worked great for years. Now no longe discovers serviio dlna server. I thought it was the router or the server but another dlna app picked it right up.

I have been using this app for couple of months. It was very good and useful until it needed to connect to remote DLNA server over IP6. This app on my iPhone will not connect to server. My DLNA servers are working fine. If my phone is connected to internet through Wifi, app can connect to DLNA server. I have contacted developer, however they didn't/couldn't resolve this issue. So, app is just sitting here useless!!

Easiest mythtv frontend for iPad/iPhone.

I might be alone but the last update and removal of forward and reverse swipe, title when touching screen, and auto play next series. I have the paid version and truly hate the new layout and features.

This is the only DLNA video-playing app that I know of that lets me lock video playback into landscape mode. The app is also very stable, not glitchy, which speaks a lot these days. It also works well with the DLNA devices/software on my network and has a pleasing UX. Love it.

This app is unmanageable. It stops, hangs, crashed on its own. The features appear to be good, but most of them are unstable. Unless the developer fixes the bugs, it's a loss and a waste of money and should be reported to google and iTunes.

SMB playback is still broken. If you’re looking for something to play from your local network shares keep looking. A real shame as this app used to work great

Hi, why there is not a “next” & “previous” bottons in player ?

Among dozens of video players available, this is just the one playing all files right! Picture, sound, subs all good. Has been using this app for 5 years. Just transfer movies over iTunes. It supports all popular file formats! Amazing!

This app does what it boasts. Works on Apple TV, iOS, Mac OS.

Using this player with Chord Poly. I select Poly as the output and pick songs from Poly’s MicroSD card - it plays perfectly for about a minute or two and then no music is heard but the song counter continues. Then this app says cannot pause and the message has buttons missing. Bad app and a total rip off at $6.

Exactly what I was looking for. The new interface is perfect!

This app doesn't work with a NAS. It would not self-discover my Synology NAS so I had to enter the url. Once I entered the url every time I click on "servers" to connect to the NAS the app crashes. I then bought FileBrowser which is awesome - it self discovers and works perfectly for using any type of file (movies, docs, songs, pics, etc) stored on my NAS and is really easy, convenient and fast. I deleted this absolutely useless 8player app from my device and I am going to demand a refund (not sure how to do this on iOS app store but I will find out!).

When it works it is ok but it doesn’t very often.

Works great,best ever. It is a pity there is no “donate” button, i would eager give em few bucks more for many years of use,always with great satisfaction

Crashes after opening it. it worked fine earlier, but not anymore. Open and crashes.

This app is not perfect, and at the same time it is the best one I’ve seen that has a version for both Apple TV and iOS. I use it to connect to JRiver media server and it works better than JRiver’s own remote app. It also lets you download files directly to your phone from your network. Something about the video playback quality is not as good as VLC Media player so I use that for video and this for music.

I really love 8player as it has a simple and intuitive interface and plays everything from my home server via DLNA with ease! Whether I use my iPhone, iPad or AppleTV - I have a consistent and pleasurable experience! Their support is also excellent. I had a question on the Apple TV version and they responded really quickly. Overall great product and great support. I’ve removed all other players and this is my go to media app!

The chromecast icon never shows up on the screen (both iPad and iPhone), so I have no way to cast to the TV other than screen mirroring. For videos, I find VLC works better and has chromecast that works. 8-player pro seems to support all the videos, photos and music I have, but I gave three stars due to inability to cast.

I've been a long time user and reluctant fan of this app for several years now. I'll concede that I've strayed over that time, but I keep coming back. Hoping. I have a very large music collection (5k LPs-20k CDs, around 14TBs of digitized music total). First, I do appreciate the DLNA improvements and other similar enhancements, unfortunately those are not what's front and center for users. I'll just say it, the new interface is atrocious. - icons are way too large, at least for my tastes. Perhaps provide an option for S M L? - navigating MediaMonkey directories is painful, almost literally. You select server, then MediaMonkey (or other DLNA), then artist or location, or album, etc., then you go in again from there and so on... Now, the journey there is not bad at all, but getting back? Warm up your wrist and fingers. You have to swipe back once for each layer deep you went in. Cumbersome to say the least. - album/track selection interface suffers dramatically in that you are only presented with the cover art and title. Where's the artist? Album name? Option for detail view vs cover art? Why not provide options for displaying or hiding tagged metadata? This isn't as big of an issue when finding a song on an album, but from a playlist it's a complete nightmare. These are but a few of the frustrations with the interface. There are soooooo many new features that I've been hoping to see for years but instead you decide to focus on an interface update? I don't get it, unless the new interface is required for these elusive items on said wish list. perhaps?One can hope. I really do like this app and I love it's potential. Here's to hoping we live to see it one day.

This is a full-featured, easy to use media player. It works great with any DLNA or UPNP devices on your network. It's easy to set up and use. One feature this player has that no others have, is the ability to sort songs by the track number in the ID3 tag in folder view. Most players just sort them alphabetically. My only complaint with this app is that it is buggy when running in the background. About a third of the time tracks don't advance when the app is running in the background. Even when bringing it to the foreground, the music won't play unless you kill the app and restart.

Using with Mediamonkey gold, Bubbleupnp and Chromecast audio. Works great with MM collections, search and playlists. Flawless with Playon. Very little battery use on iPad Mini and iPhone6. Extremely happy with this app and my setup.

This controller enables DNLA playback from virtually any source (all sources that I tried) on any renderer on your network. In other words, it does what a controller is supposed to do, and it's fast, and it doesn't crash. This basic functionality is surprisingly hard to find for iOS! Furthermore, I had no trouble making playlists. To get a 5th star, I'd want to see two additional features that are missing: (1) display the format and nitrate of the track currently being played; (2) the ability to order tracks residing on a DNLA server by track number instead of alphabetically (this feature appears to be present in settings, but I haven't successfully gotten it to work).

Apple TV app, and iPhone app do not work with Cyberlink PowerDVD on Windows 10 PC

This APP needs an equalizer, besides that it’s great

Tell it to sort files by date and it can’t, also no mater what l try l cannot set it up to access it when away from home!

I really liked this app until I tried a movie with a asian language subtitle. It didn’t work. Only displays???? On the screen. I hate to go back to Infuse but until they fix this, I didn’t have a choice.

This works great with my home network and streaming all my media vi PS3 Media Server. However, I deduct 1 star because every now and then it hangs when switching tracks. It seems to be related to wireless. I run the program on my phone/ipad using a wireless network and then connect to my cordless headphones via blue tooth. When this issue is resolved, I will return the last star.

A lot of usability features need to be included in this paid version. One I immediately I need is the vertical BAR like menu which appears once click on an icon of landing page, must also be scrollable.

Works great as UPNP player! Big request is that the folder icons should be represented by the album cover artwork once you are at artist level or album level. Right now, the album artwork only displays when you drill down to the track level of a folder. It would really improve the browsing experience if at artist level it could be the artwork of the first album it finds or a composite quad image of 2 or more album covers. At the album level, displaying the album artwork would be ideal as opposed to the folder icon currently displayed. People connect to the artwork...not folder icons. Thanks.

Have enjoyed this product for well over 5 years now. It is fantastic in every way. I have recently started to build up a decent GIF library and was curious if it was possible to play gifs?

I've been looking for this app ever since I moved my music collection to a NAS. This is by far the best DLNA player I've found for any platform. Thank You!

Great App, works like a charm. Gets supported by developer. Latest UI update is awesome. Works without any hassles with my DLNA server. Def. worth purchasing, 5 Stars!

Was using since 1 year initially working fine and later become worst and thought of rid of this app and again tried today great suprise and complete new look working great! My Primary DLNA app! Thank You!