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First of all, thank you once again Sindre! Amazing app!

Now with the video streaming. Some videos I have is compressed in multiple rar archives.

At home i run xbmc that supports this. Is there any possibility that it's easy to implement in subsonic?

OH, i have the same situation.

XBMC handles it great, would be nice if this feature can go into subsonic too.

RAR isn't free... Most network servers use GZIP (.gz) compression...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip#Other_uses

agree even zip is not free

gz rules !

Isnt the unrar free?

XBMC is GPL and it has this feature.

I dont wanna pack my files, they are already in rar format....

unrar is free... I use it, but in a script, that unrars all content that is compressed, so further application's don't need to depend on it

XBMC is software
Subsonic is web software.

I think that's why.

And rar for freebsd here http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/archivers/rar.html
So we need to see what Sindre says:)

XBMC has a webfrontend too.

Websoftware = software

Subsonic is in java.
xbmc in c/python?

It would be nice if you could automatically unrar albums that are uploaded like you do with zips as well

tj78492 wrote:It would be nice if you could automatically unrar albums that are uploaded like you do with zips as well

Exactly, dont forget the uploading folks

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In my book support for RAR to auto extract RAR uploads is more important than using it to stream multi-rar archives which seems like a dirty hack anyway. Arent most download tools able to auto extract so you end up with one or two files instead of 50+ .RAR files?

Anyway, my oppinion would surely be different if transcoding videos for 2+ users wouldnt bring my cpu to its knees :/
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But RAR support in any area is never a bad thing, so I support both feature requests.
Here is another thread specifically about RAR support for uploads:
Subsonic Forum Forum Index -> Feature Requests -> RAR decompress support?

i also like to see this