Subsonic Forum

I'm a non-root user on a Debian slot. I am able to setup Subsonic stand-alone and access it from the internet at the port I specified in subsonic.sh.

I think this may be a permission-related issue, but I'm unable to play any of the FLAC & MP3 files in the music directories I specified. I can list all of them, but when I try to play something, it adds to the playlist but stays at 0:00 and doesn't play.

The flac, lame, and ffmpeg binaries are in the system path, and can be run from anywhere, so I don't think that's the issue.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
piaamp

Also, I am using the latest standalone. 4.6

Make sure the binaries or sym-links are in the subsonic\transcode directory.

Yep, I copied them from /usr/bin to ~/subsonic/transcode

No matter where I run ffmpeg, FLAC, or lame from though, I get the expected output.

Considering that I don't have root access, what would the syntax be for chown to get the correct permissions for my music folders as well as the subsonic installation folders?

The permissions on my music folders are rwxrwxr-x, and the permissions on my subsonic folder are rwx------.

I have tried both copying the actual files as well as creating symbolic links to the flac, ffmpeg, and lame binaries in ~/subsonic/transcode. That folder's permissions are rwxrwx---.

I still can't play FLAC files, but MP3's play fine. What could I be doing wrong?

Could it be that Subsonic doesn't like the transcode binaries that my slot is using?

I’m having the same problem. The video works fine but the audio stays at 0:00. The log file has no indication of audio streaming.

Did anyone ever solve this problem? I'm now experiencing it as well.

I get this error:

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[6/3/12 2:05:53 PM PDT]    DEBUG   InputStreamReaderThread   (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) /var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

I have not changed the ffmpeg command line from the default, and I have the same one on another PC that plays just fine. This one that's giving me the error on FLACs will play MP3 without issue as well.

It looks like it might have something with your meta_data, as I was having that problem as well.

Try this:

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ffmpeg -i %s -ab %bk -v 0 -f mp3 -map_metadata 0:0 -