EASY streaming to mobile from WAP site

[braddyo]

NOTE: I did post this as a response in the Help forum, however I believe it also belongs in this forum as well:

How difficult would it be to add a feature to start the stream (M3U even) from the wap site? I have been able to stream to my mobile phone, however in order to stream I have to create a playlist using the wap page, then go to TCPMP (a great media player for Windows Mobile), key in the URL http://myhost/subsonic/stream?player=1&suffix=.mp3, then if I want to change a track or change the playlist, I do everything all over again.

It seems that it would be terribly easy to start the stream from the wap page. That is really the only thing now that makes me somewhat miss Orb, as their mobile streaming page and transcoding features are amazing, including a bandwidth test and auto-transcoding depending on that (to name one).

I actually believe that mobile streaming is one option that can set Subsonic ahead of all the other applications, and I think it's a feature that is more in demand than you may realize Sindre. Anyway, please consider this feature. You have done an amazing job with this application. Thanks!

[sindre_mehus]

Yes, I agree that would be very nice. I can't promise when, but I'll have a look and see what I can do.

Cheers,
Sindre

[sindre_mehus]

Hi,

I added a new WAP option "Play on phone" in Subsonic 3.3.beta1. It will send the playlist as an m3u directly to the phone's browser. I'm not sure how many phones support that. Please let me know if this works for you.

Cheers, Sindre

[braddyo]

Hi,

I added a new WAP option "Play on phone" in Subsonic 3.3.beta1. It will send the playlist as an m3u directly to the phone's browser. I'm not sure how many phones support that. Please let me know if this works for you.

Cheers, Sindre

I installed the new beta, and the "Play on phone" feature works like a charm. I'm running Windows Mobile 6 on my smartphone with TCPMP (shows up in Subsonic as NSPlayer/10.0.0.3802) as my media player. After clicking the link, it opened my default player (TCPMP - I assume it would work well for the mobile windows media player installed by default) and played perfectly.

When I did not have the "Playlist is managed by player" option checked it only showed one entry in the playlist view of TCPMP. When I checked that option, the entire playlist loaded in TMCP and I successfully browsed around the playlist and listened to random songs. I also was able to seek in the file itself. Beautiful!

The playlist even loaded the album art of the song I was listening to! In my example, I loaded all of my music under the artist Coldplay. The first album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, was obviously first in the playlist, and every song I selected in that album loaded the album art. Every other song in a different album, however, did not show any album art. I looked in the physical directories and the album art Folder.jpg was present in all the album directories. I wonder if the album art is being pulled from the mp3 itself? Perhaps the software is pulling the album art from the mp3 and not the Folder.jpg file. Any thoughts?

The beta works great, thanks for the improvements!

[sindre_mehus]

Hi,

Glad to hear that it worked

There is no support for cover art in the wap interface, so the images you see are probably embedded in the mp3 (or TCPMP is pulling them from somewhere else).

Sindre

[IndridCold]

Sindre,

My sweet boy - I know that you are not overly impressed with RANDOM PLAYLISTS - but with a music collection of several thousand songs - all of which I like (Hence why they are there ) it would be great to have the random option on the WAP side of things as well. It is rather difficult and time consuming to create playlists on the phone - sometimes I'd just like to listen to my music quick-n-dirty while on-the-road.

This would certainly be a nice feature to have included in the already nice feature sets.

Also - I know this is not the right topic for this question - but I love Subsonic - more than SlimServer - and recently I purchased a QNAP TS-109 NAS server. This is a NAS server running a Linux core. Most of the folks are really really wanting SlimServer integration. I feel that Subsonic would be just as good a candidate. Do you have any linux packages one can drop in place? Check out the buzz at http://forum.qnap.com under UPnP / Slimserver category. I put a good plug for Subsonic - and have tried to figure out a way to incorporate it into the system - but I'm no Linux expert - especially if it involves porting. I thought you might have an interest in this because the number of people wanting a good media solution on their NAS - Subsonic would really fit the bill for many folks - therefore giving Subsonic even more exposure to the Media Masses.

Kudos to you and Subsonic!!

-Indrid Cold

[sindre_mehus]

Hi Indrid,

I'll strongly consider adding functionality for random playlist in the wap interface.

I have been looking a bit into the UPnP stuff previously. I guess Subsonic could act as both a "UPnP MediaServer DCP" and a "UPnP MediaServer ControlPoint" (see the UPnP wiki page for a description). However, implementing support for UPnP looks like a massive task, and I don't have any immediate plans for it.

Cheers,
Sindre

[IndridCold]

Sindre,

I'm sorry - you are reading a bit too much into this... Subsonic having UPnP features would be AWESOME... but, it is not what I said. I simply said it would be great to have SubSonic be a good competition for SlimServer (but as it is - with its current feature set).

I have 4 PnP boxes here - and I'm not overly impressed with UPnP - I can do just as much good with SMB shares and streaming.

So, now take a look at my original request... how difficult would it be to create a basic Drop-In Linux solution?

Respectfully,
Indrid Cold

[takkischitt]

I'd love to see Subsonic on QNAP NAS's also...!

[benje101]

Indrid

I realise I repling to a yr and half old post but hey..

I think 'maybe' you were kinda the one who originally missed the point
....and that it's not really sindre's job to 'create a drop in version for your linux nas'. it's a java app ...and what you need to do it get java and tomcat running on you nas first and then fire up the subsonic .war version therein.

...it now being way after you original post, it probably would suprise you to know ppl have done just that now on qnap(x86) NASes. I believe it's probably possible to do the same on the qnap(arm) NASes too but both quite a bit more experimental and probably quite a bit slower...

if so, will also be poss to do on a sheevaplug type headless mini computer too. nice

regards