Music folder via WebDAV

[lowpull]

It's only possible to add music folders that are located on the server subsonic is running on. It would be a nice feature to be able to add new folders via WebDAV. If the diskspace of your server subsonic is running on is getting low you could add some folders that are located on other servers in the internet like online space of dropbox or other providers that allows the access via WebDAV. I'm aware that there could be some performance issuses while scanning your library because the access via WebDAV is slower than direct access on the same server subsonic is running on but at least the playback of music (MP3 files) should be possible without any performance loss.

[gingerbeast121]

Maybe you could map a drive / use a mount point to 'pull in music' from another location on your network. I use subsonic on Ubuntu server and mount a share located on my file server to /media/<location>. This works well and means the subsonic server remains a manageable size

[Stormwind]

+1 from me. Would make it so I didn't have to set up a separate WebDAV share for my music.

[acroyear]

I'm with gingerbeast121: I've just been using CIFS shares from a network web drive mounted onto the Linux box running Subsonic and it works just fine. WebDAV is actually a horridly slow and unreliable protocol in my experience, but your mileage may vary.

That said, there are ways to mount a WebDAV service on both windows and linux (davfs) to make it a file system like any other, and once that's done, Subsonic should work without issue. Why overload Subsonic with the feature when the O/S can handle it instead. I'm the same with the requests to support S3: just get software that treats your Amazon S3 host as if it was a file system and Subsonic will just work without modification.