A few questions about MusicCabinet
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:32 pmI’ve always wanted to try MusicCabinet in addition to the regular Subsonic installation, it looks great. I’ve never pulled the trigger because of the downtime involved (I typically have users listening late at night and early morning) and the fear of screwing up and losing everything.
However, I’ve grown tired of waiting for an update to 4.7 for two reasons. First, the handling of Various Artists releases. All my VA releases are tagged “Various” in the Album Artist field. The fact I can’t see artist by individual track drives myself and my users mad. Also, I hate how playlists function now. In the past I could edit an .m3U in Foobar or my media player of choice, and have it reflected immediately upon load in Subsonic. The fact I now have to edit my playlists from the archaic Subsonic playlist interface, or re-import them every time I make a change, is maddening. I've ceased creating new playlists entirely since 4.7. It seems like a step backwards, really.
I’m pretty sure I saw that MusicCabinet would fix the VA situation, does it affect the way playlists are handled at all? At this point for me, it’s either upgrade to MusicCabinet, or downgrade to a previous version of Subsonic. How difficult is downgrading?
One other question about the last.fm 3,000 artist scan limit. Is there a waiting period between initial scans, or can I do them back to back? I definitely have more than 3,000 artists and wouldn’t want to wait 48 hours or something crazy like that between scans.
However, I’ve grown tired of waiting for an update to 4.7 for two reasons. First, the handling of Various Artists releases. All my VA releases are tagged “Various” in the Album Artist field. The fact I can’t see artist by individual track drives myself and my users mad. Also, I hate how playlists function now. In the past I could edit an .m3U in Foobar or my media player of choice, and have it reflected immediately upon load in Subsonic. The fact I now have to edit my playlists from the archaic Subsonic playlist interface, or re-import them every time I make a change, is maddening. I've ceased creating new playlists entirely since 4.7. It seems like a step backwards, really.
I’m pretty sure I saw that MusicCabinet would fix the VA situation, does it affect the way playlists are handled at all? At this point for me, it’s either upgrade to MusicCabinet, or downgrade to a previous version of Subsonic. How difficult is downgrading?
One other question about the last.fm 3,000 artist scan limit. Is there a waiting period between initial scans, or can I do them back to back? I definitely have more than 3,000 artists and wouldn’t want to wait 48 hours or something crazy like that between scans.