Subsonic Forum

I have successfully installed the Subsonic standalone on my linux computer. I did customize the subsonic.sh and every time I reboot and start subsonic, it thinks its the first time I have run the application and wants me to set an admin password. All music folders and settings are like a fresh install.

my subsonic.sh

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JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java
SUBSONIC_HOME=/boot/subsonic_home/data
SUBSONIC_HOST=0.0.0.0
SUBSONIC_PORT=22889
SUBSONIC_CONTEXT_PATH=/subsonic
SUBSONIC_MAX_MEMORY=256
SUBSONIC_PIDFILE=
SUBSONIC_DEFAULT_MUSIC_FOLDER=
SUBSONIC_DEFAULT_PODCAST_FOLDER=/boot/subsonic_home/data/Podcast
SUBSONIC_DEFAULT_PLAYLIST_FOLDER=/boot/subsonic_home/data/playlists

My startup script

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installpkg /boot/subsonic_home/jre-6u6-i586-3.tgz
/boot/subsonic_home/standalone/subsonic.sh

I'm a complete n00b at linux so bare with me.

Another question, each time I run subsonic.sh it starts another process, right (the pid number)? Do I need to kill previous processes to a have changes reflected on the server?

Which distro are you on?

I'm actually running unRaid which is a "slimmed down version of slackware"

The default subsonic.sh creates the subsonic db/properties/ect in /vat/subsonic which will be re-created each time the computer reboots. I set the subsonic_home path to /boot/subsonic_home/data/ (boot is the root of the flash drive).

I can see thumbnails and play lists being save to this new location, but after a reboot subsonic doesn't seem to be looking in that directory even though its specified in subsonic.sh

This has to be a simple issue I would think.

I think the problem is this one:

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installpkg /boot/subsonic_home/jre-6u6-i586-3.tgz
/boot/subsonic_home/standalone/subsonic.sh


If you unpack the tgz every time you start subsonic then yes, all your settings will be reset back to standard installation. E.g. the subsonic_home-variable which as you mentioned is by default pointing to /var/subsonic

Could you try simply running the subsonic.sh to start it up and see if that doesn't do the trick? Not familiar with unRaid so I might be out of bounds

jigsaw,

installpkg /boot/subsonic_home/jre-6u6-i586-3.tgz

is needed since the /usr/lib/java directory doesn't exist after a reboot.

Plus I have noticed in the \db\subsonic.log file every min a new entry is added...

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/*C25404*/SET SCHEMA PUBLIC
CONNECT USER SA
DISCONNECT
/*C25405*/SET SCHEMA PUBLIC
CONNECT USER SA
DISCONNECT
/*C25406*/SET SCHEMA PUBLIC
CONNECT USER SA
DISCONNECT
/*C25407*/SET SCHEMA PUBLIC
CONNECT USER SA
DISCONNECT
/*C25408*/SET SCHEMA PUBLIC
CONNECT USER SA
DISCONNECT
/*C25409*/SET SCHEMA PUBLIC
CONNECT USER SA
DISCONNECT

Hehe.. My bad.. My eyes read installpkg (...)subsonic(...).tgz so for some reason I thought you were re-installing subsonic everytime you booted

Where did you install subsonic the first time? In other words, where is your db-folder where the subsonic database-file is stored etc.
If this is on /boot/somewhere then I think it should survive a reboot.

I think the first I tried to run subsonic I left the subsonic.sh file alone (except for changing the port). When I realized /var/subsonic would not survive a reboot, I set a path on the flash drive. Is there some "registry" in linux that would hold a pointer to a the old install location (I come from a windows background)?

I want to note that I neglected to "Install dependent packages" for JAVA as the instructions for FreeNAS say to do. Is this important? Subsonic wouldn't run without it I assume.

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$ pkg_add -v -r xtrans
$ pkg_add -v -r xproto
$ pkg_add -v -r xextproto
$ pkg_add -v -r javavmwrapper

Here is some more insight on the subject.

Why do I have to keep reinstalling a user application?

Sindre, what files are added to the linux OS that I might need to save to a non-volatile location before shutting down?

Hi kapz

Linux does not have a registry as windows does. I was merely attempting to get you to locate the db-folder where subsonic will write it's settings so that you could make sure this was not still in /var/subsonic.

In any case, to setup a brand new subsonic in a non-default location I would:
1) create folder for subsonic, say /boot/subsonic
2) copy the standalone subsonic.tar.gz to /boot/subsonic
3) untar ( tar -xvf subsonic.tar.gz )
4) modify all paths in subsonic.sh to /boot/subsonic where applicable
5) start it up

After this procedure all settings should be preserved after boot if I've understood the unRaid correctly. There should be a db-folder and a jetty-folder within /boot/subsonic/ and you should also see the two log-files subsonic_sh.log and subsonic.log in /boot/subsonic/.

Hope this helps

-jigsaw

jigsaw,

I was able to get subsonic to work finally between reboots (not really sure how). I moved the install directory to one of the hard disks in the array. It was slow running from a flash drive.

I'm having so much trouble getting transcoding to work now. I need lame, m4a, and flac at least. UnRaid is missing compiler libraries, so I found what I think was one already made. I downloaded lame-3.98.2-1.rh7.rf.i386.rpm and copied the files found inside like so...

/mnt/disk2/SUBSONIC_HOME/transcode/lame
/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0

Both .so files are also in the transcode folder too. When I type 'lame' from a telnet session I get the following error...

"error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0: file is too short"

These might not even be the right files. Would you happen to have working encoding libraries you could send me?

Does the downsample command in Subsonic stay the same too?

Thank you

Great to hear that you finally made it survive a reboot kapz I'm afraid I cannot be of much assistance regarding the libraries as I'm on Fedora and you're on... well.. that's kinda it, I don't know which distro unRaid is based on, hehe. I suggest you start looking about on either the faq, wiki or forum of unRaid to help you with that one.

-jigsaw

the syslog says: unraid kernel: Linux version 2.6.29.1-unRAID

I do plan to write complete instructions once I figure it all out. I'm installing the packages to compile on unRaid now, but its somewhat trail and error.