Subsonic Forum

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:44 pm**

i am using Ubuntu Hardy Heron. i have LAME installed. its in /usr/bin. why can't subsonic find it there?

the music plays fine, but most of my mp3s have a high bitrate and i only have DSL, so i need to be able to downsample.

thanks in advance for your help.

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:01 pm**

It's a security feature:
The top one on 3.6 here: http://subsonic.sourceforge.net/changelog.php

# Security: For improved security, only transcoders installed in SUBSONIC_HOME/transcode are allowed to be executed. This includes LAME downsampling.

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:09 pm**

ok, so how do i downsample in linux if i don't know how to install it in a different directory?

is there a way to point subsonic to the version i have?

Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:10 am**

Assuming you installed Subsonic to /var/subsonic this command should do the trick.

Code: Select all: sudo cp /usr/bin/lame /var/subsonic/transcode/

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:10 am**

thank you so much. sorry it took so long, but i was away from home and couldn't apply that. it works great now

Posted: **Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:55 am**

Clifff wrote:Assuming you installed Subsonic to /var/subsonic this command should do the trick.
Code: Select all
sudo cp /usr/bin/lame /var/subsonic/transcode/

I would prefer:

Code: Select all: ln -s /usr/bin/lame /var/subsonic/transcode/lame

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Notice: LAME does not seem to be installed.

Notice: LAME does not seem to be installed.