Album coverart non-existent; Most Played links return error

[hoodscoot]

Is there particular content in the audio files that needs to be present to facilitate the coverart acquisition? I don't see any cover art while playing the music (which I've found works best with Winamp). In fact, I have no idea outside of the Media Player, the "Status" view, or the playlist in the bottom frame that a file is being played.

Also, clicking on the Most Frequently Played or Most Recently Played links in the "Playing" view gives the following error(s) ... kind of wonder if the two problems are related:

HTTP Status 500 -

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type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Exception in JSP: /home.jsp:125

122: boolean showLastPlayed, boolean showRating, boolean showLastModified) throws IOException {
123: StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
124: buf.append("<table>\n");
125: for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
126: MusicFile file = files[i];
127: if (file == null || !file.exists()) {
128: continue;


Stacktrace:
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:504)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:393)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.securityfilter.filter.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:188)


root cause

java.lang.NullPointerException
org.apache.jsp.home_jsp.getAlbumList(org.apache.jsp.home_jsp:32)
org.apache.jsp.home_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.home_jsp:265)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:332)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.securityfilter.filter.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:188)


note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.15 logs.


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Apache Tomcat/5.5.15

[sindre_mehus]

Hi!
You are using Subsonic 2.6.beta1, I guess?

Now, is coverart missing completely, or is it just that the current album is not displayed when you click the "Playing" button? Can you see coverart when you browse through your music? (The "Playing" page is supposed to display the album which is currently playing. If nothing is playing, it simply redirects to the Home page.)

Subsonic does not retrieve coverart from within the audio files, it only look for image files co-located with the audio files.

The error you describe with Most Frequently Played / Most Recently Played has been fixed.

Thanks,
Sindre

[hoodscoot]

>Now, is coverart missing completely, or is it just that the current album is not displayed when you click the "Playing" button?

Actually, both. It doesn't appear to be downloading any coverart (missing completely), and it says "Welcome to Subsonic!" in the main window, but little else.

This behavior is consistent for both the 2.5 (Redhat) and 2.6 beta (Debian) releases on my machines.

>The error you describe with Most Frequently Played / Most Recently Played has been fixed.

In a future release?

Thanks for the reply!

[sindre_mehus]

Actually, both. It doesn't appear to be downloading any coverart (missing completely), and it says "Welcome to Subsonic!" in the main window, but little else.

This behavior is consistent for both the 2.5 (Redhat) and 2.6 beta (Debian) releases on my machines.

Ok, there are two separate issues here:
1. Coverart is not displayed
2. The main page doesn't show any albums.

Comments to 1: You are saying that cover art does not display neither in the home page, nor when you browse through your media library (by clicking on artists and albums). Can you please check the following:

o That you have image files with cover art in the same directories as your albums.
o That the "Cover art mask" setting matches these files.
o That the settings for your player does not specify "Cover art size = OFF".

Comments to 2:
o "New" and "Random" should be available after the first media library scan (which by default occurs at 03:00 every night).
o "Highest rated" should be available immediately after you rate an album.
o "Most frequently/recently played" should be available immediately after you play a song.

If you see a different behaviour, could you please see if you find anything conspicuous in the subsonic log (TOMCAT_HOME/logs/subsonic.log)?

>The error you describe with Most Frequently Played / Most Recently Played has been fixed.
In a future release?

Yes, it will be available in 2.6.beta2, and of course the 2.6 final release.

[hoodscoot]

>Comments to 1: You are saying that cover art does not display neither in the home page, nor when you browse through your media library (by clicking on artists and albums). Can you please check the following:

>o That you have image files with cover art in the same directories as your albums.
There are no such image files

>o That the "Cover art mask" setting matches these files.
Set to the default

>o That the settings for your player does not specify "Cover art size = OFF".
Size is MEDIUM

Comments to 2:
>o "New" and "Random" should be available after the first media library scan (which by default occurs at 03:00 every night).
>o "Highest rated" should be available immediately after you rate an album.
>o "Most frequently/recently played" should be available immediately after you play a song.
Those links are there, although some of them misbehave as was mentioned previously. There are, however, no albums to choose from. The frame on the left side containing the list of songs says there are 5 albums.

>If you see a different behaviour, could you please see if you find anything conspicuous in the subsonic log (TOMCAT_HOME/logs/subsonic.log)?
Here's one error I've been receiving:

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[2006-01-28 22:20:55,778] DEBUG service.SearchService - Found 10 random files in
9 ms.
[2006-01-28 22:20:58,329] ERROR [/subsonic].[jsp] - Servlet.service() for servle
t jsp threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.jsp.home_jsp.getAlbumList(org.apache.jsp.home_jsp:32)
at org.apache.jsp.home_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.home_jsp:265)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper
.java:332)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:3
14)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:252)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:173)
at org.securityfilter.filter.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java
:188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:173)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperV
alve.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextV
alve.java:178)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.j
ava:126)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.j
ava:105)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineVal
ve.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.jav
a:148)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java
:869)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.p
rocessConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:667)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpo
int.java:527)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFol
lowerWorkerThread.java:80)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadP
ool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

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[sindre_mehus]

>o That you have image files with cover art in the same directories as your albums.
There are no such image files

Right, that's the problem. Subsonic only displays already existing cover art. (However, you can use "Change cover" to search for images for your albums.)

Those links are there, although some of them misbehave as was mentioned previously. There are, however, no albums to choose from.

Have you tried, for instance, to rate an album, and then click the "Highest rated" link?

Here's one error I've been receiving:

[2006-01-28 22:20:58,329] ERROR [/subsonic].[jsp] - Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.jsp.home_jsp.getAlbumList(org.apache.jsp.home_jsp:32)

Ok, that's the error discussed earlier in this topic.