Subsonic Forum

hi everyone,
I am a subsonic user for around 2 years now and even donated. I haven't reinstalled it on a fresh OS for some months though and tried to give it a shot.

anyway, although it has been working for me half a year ago, this fresh installation on my WindowsHomeServer gives me a headache. I tried both the standalone version and a deployment on Tomcat. Both worked so far when I use the integrated flash player. BUT as soon as I select to play to an external player (tried VLC and Win Media Player), it simply does not work:

* first way:
I connect VLC to the stream http://server:port/stream?player=2&suffix=.mp3
It connects and shows correctly "welcome to subsonic.."
Then I open the web interface, add some songs and click "play"

* second way:
I open the web interface and add some songs and click "play"
VLC opens with the M3U (automatically)

=> both ways' result/problem:
VLC plays 0-2 seconds and then disconnects completely. This happens again when I press play in VLC to reconnect.

Win Media Player is even more weird: It plays a while, but the songs in subsonic seem to skip automatically after 5-10 seconds, through the playlist. after some songs, winmediaplayer just stops.

What only seems to work (but is not usable for me because I want to connect my Popcorn Hour C200 to the mp3-stream) is the flashplayer and the external-playlist-option.

My WHS is capable enough (worked with ealier versions some time ago), my network is Gbit/WLAN combined, my client PC is a Windows 7 Pro Laptop. Firewalls are all configured properly (even tried to turn them off completely). Memory is enough there and I gave up to 500MB to the standalone version. No change.

I am totally confused, can someone help me out?!

Nobody out there with the same problem?
If you're too lazy to read my first post (I wrote too much eh?): "External Player"-usage in the web-interface is not working..

heeelp!

I don't know; just tested it now and it worked fine. This was on a Mac with Safari and iTunes.

Anyone else having problems?

hi sindre, thanks for your message!

well, seems like this is mostly VLC-related, as in http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2333 also had that problem.

gonna have to live with that. since I actually wanted to connect my popcorn hour to the stream I wonder now, is there a possibility to change the stream or generate a different kind than mp3 over http? maybe mms? could that solve the problem both for VLC and my PCH?

anyway, I love your work, thank you very very much for this!

same problem here. the server is 9.04 linux.

On Client Ubuntu LInux (9.10) - Firefox or Chromium :

*The flash web player won't play any sound, and there's no progress on the bar, or anything else really.

*Additionally, when I try to read a playlist with VLC, it plays 2 seconds then stops, which kinda sucks

[*Finally, on my iTouch, Z-subsonic can't seem to be able to find my server, which also kinda blows ] --> this kinda solved itself, I think it was a funny firewall or something.

On Client Win7:

*flash player works like a charm
*VLC plays one second

=> So, does anyone have any idea how to fix any of it?
Someone Somewhere seemed to suggest augmenting the RAM subsonic can use, but I can't find where to do that.

Thanks a lot already
D.A.

dudealfred wrote:On Client Ubuntu LInux (9.10) - Firefox or Chromium :

*The flash web player won't play any sound, and there's no progress on the bar, or anything else really.

Can you please check which version of the Flash plugin you have? Try upgrading it and see if it helps.

Thanks

my flash version is : Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32 in chrome

can't really upgrade, but I saw 4beta1 fixed the problem. I'll try soon.
Cheers.

D.

I had this problem for quite awhile. It didn't always happen and it happened most frequently with very large podcast files (>20mb). I checked my upstream bandwidth and it seemed to be very stable at ~420k. But If I checked the WAN throughput on my router, it fluctuated too much to support 256k streaming. Checking status in subsonic showed the same pattern.

Since I use DD-WRT firmware on my router, I tried tweaking DDWRT but it did not help. I checked for a new recommended firmware for my router in the DDWRT database and there was a new one, so I flashed the router with the new firmware. Since then I have had no issues with subsonic. Upstream bandwidth is unbelievably stable at 480 +/- 20.