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Starring any track, whether cached or currently downloading from the server, returns a "ServerTooOldException" error message and it does not get scrobbled to last.fm as a starred track.

I would also love the ability to star a track from the widget and/or notification controls.

What server version are you running? It sounds like you are running an older version of Subsonic, or Music Cabinet (which uses an old version of the REST API that does not support star-ing tracks).

GLenn

I am using MusicCabinet 0.7.22.

I am able to star tracks from within the MusicCabinet web UI.

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Subsonic, originally written by Sindre Mehus. Built with MusicCabinet plugin, version 0.7.22, on February 13, 2013.

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jetty/8.y.z-SNAPSHOT, java 1.7.0_17, Windows 7 (92.5 MB / 145.0 MB)

This is a music cabinet issue.

[edit]: See here:

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=11268&p=51843&hilit=ServerTooOldException#p51843

flvinny521 wrote:I am able to star tracks from within the MusicCabinet web UI.

The WebUI does not use the REST API, which is the remote application programming interface. The REST API of Music Cabinet is not running at subsonic version 4.7 like the rest of the app is.

Glenn

Thank you for the push in the right direction!

Starring via REST API is actually supported in MusicCabinet (and would automatically "love" the track on last.fm), even though the server reports itself as version 4.6. I wish it was possible to report versions a bit more fine-grained. Maybe I have to start reporting it as version 4.7 and throw exceptions on the methods that aren't implemented.

I also somehow need to be more clear about what MusicCabinet is and what it's not. Originally, I started working with the Subsonic 4.6 code base which was the latest stable release at that point in time. Then I threw out the whole media handling because it was super inefficiently written and wrote my own library to handle it. Then I incorporated some changes that I liked from Subsonic 4.7 (or actually only the new starring system, I think. but only the icons, I had to write the code myself again). I'd guess that around 50% of the code from Subsonic 4.6 is left and the rest is written by me. I'm striving to get that percentage even further down.

I do strive to be compatible with the 4.7 release though, so sooner or later I'll add the missing methods and start reporting myself as 4.7 even though the code base behind it is completely different.

Yah there just isn't really a good way for the client to tell what is going to be available on the server without using the version. Honestly, I think the tipping point will be adding support for the update playlist command. That seems to be 99% of what I get asked by, so after you added that you could relatively safely start reporting as a 4.7 server.

We're getting off-topic here but in this method:

http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp#updatePlaylist

do you assume that playlistId is an integer, or could it be the full path of a playlist?

The playlist ID is literally whatever string is passed into http://subsonic.svn.sourceforge.net/vie ... iew=markup. My app treats it as a String, though I'm not sure if others such as iSub do as well. So in my case you can make the id whatever the hell you want, as long as the id's match up in both places.

Thanks!

Is this the same reason that the newest Clementine release (1.1.1-433-g3e01d32) does not seem to work with MusicCabinet?

I haven't looked into the requirements of Clementine, but that sounds very likely.

About Clementine, I have tested the latest version of Musiccabinet (that uses the same REST api as subsonic4.7). Clementine connects to Musiccabinet (the id/password work), but when it comes to updating the library it does nothing.