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Just installed Subsonic 5.1 and noticed these new features in the changelog:
New: Show artist image and bio.
New: Show similar artists, with radio feature.

My question is - where are they? I could not seem to locate the feature to find similar artists or to play a radio. I have my last.fm credentials entered and am able to scrobble to last.fm just fine. Does this feature require last.fm premium subscription?

I also can't see this and non of my artist is showing any artist image.

Could anyone provide a quick guide step by step guide on how to have those features working for new users ?

Thanks

If I understand correctly, the Last.FM integration matches artists' info based on folder names, not ID3 tags, which is unfortunate.

So basically if your artist folders are named:

Doors, The = No info from Last.FM
The Doors = Last.FM info will be displayed

Jackson, Michael = No info from Last.FM
Michael Jackson = Last.FM info will be displayed

I posted about the issue here but have not received any replies: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15168

titooo wrote:I also can't see this and non of my artist is showing any artist image.

Could anyone provide a quick guide step by step guide on how to have those features working for new users ?

Thanks

In regards to my question.
I noticed that the artist image only appears from the subsonic website.

Edit: the new dsub update also shows the artist image once you have clicked on the artist name

So this works only if I have my entire library arranged in folders <Artist>/<Album>/<Track.mp3>?
It is very unfortunate if that is the case because I have my entire library arranged as <Album>/<Track.mp3> right now.

kayvee wrote:So this works only if I have my entire library arranged in folders <Artist>/<Album>/<Track.mp3>?
It is very unfortunate if that is the case because I have my entire library arranged as <Album>/<Track.mp3> right now.

Well then where would Subsonic even try to display the artist info since you go directly into the album.

I thought it would be based on id3 tags. I wasn't sure where the artist info will be displayed to start with. That was the reason for this question to start with. Anyway, I am more interested in similar artists radio than info about artists. After I posted my last response I looked further and found out Subsonic getting started page clearly says that the folder structure should be in the artist/album/track manner. I have been using subsonic since 2.x days and since it always worked fine with the way I have it I never bothered to check the getting started guide... Now I have a weekend project to reorganize my library.