Subsonic 4.6.beta1 released

[utopian]

just noticed this.. i can see the Donate link.. i have a subsonic address registered.. is this right.??. i thought the donate disappeared with a registered subsonic name ? i could be wrong.. ?

ah now showing that i only have til Dec 3rd to use this... Been using since March 2010

PM to Sindre

[bbrinkmann]

Looks good.
standalone Ubuntu Server VMWare 5 esxi
5,009 artists
6,471 albums
69,802 songs
1223.07 GB (~ 18,999 hours)

[sindre_mehus]

Lately there has been an increasing problem with people using illegal license keys. This version uses a new and stronger verification that the license key is indeed valid. If you have purchased a license and still get this error, could you please contact me by PM or email so I can look into it?

Thanks,
Sindre

I believe I have identified the error and I'm working on a fix. Will keep you posted.

This should now be working again. Please restart your Subsonic server.

Again, sorry for the inconvenience!
Sindre

[utopian]

Lately there has been an increasing problem with people using illegal license keys. This version uses a new and stronger verification that the license key is indeed valid. If you have purchased a license and still get this error, could you please contact me by PM or email so I can look into it?

Thanks,
Sindre

I believe I have identified the error and I'm working on a fix. Will keep you posted.

This should now be working again. Please restart your Subsonic server.

Again, sorry for the inconvenience!
Sindre

yep working for me now.. brilliant

Many Thanks as always...

[archrival]

Lately there has been an increasing problem with people using illegal license keys. This version uses a new and stronger verification that the license key is indeed valid. If you have purchased a license and still get this error, could you please contact me by PM or email so I can look into it?

Thanks,
Sindre

I believe I have identified the error and I'm working on a fix. Will keep you posted.

This should now be working again. Please restart your Subsonic server.

Again, sorry for the inconvenience!
Sindre

Working for me as well, thank you.

[matzmann]

Hi Sindre,

thanks for the update!

May I ask what exactly the 'new jukebox features' are?

(I didn't test the new release yet, since the mainboard of my living room server is on repair right now.)

Best regards
Matthias

[sindre_mehus]

Hi Sindre,

thanks for the update!

May I ask what exactly the 'new jukebox features' are?

(I didn't test the new release yet, since the mainboard of my living room server is on repair right now.)

Best regards
Matthias

Take a look at "jukeboxControl" on http://subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp and look for "Since 1.7.0".

Cheers

[vollbr0t]

since the new update i have a lot of trouble with the transcoding...
i'm downsampling everything to 128bkit... and since the update a lot of mp3s don't play correct. the play just stops at specific mp3s. always on the same spot. there is no error-message in the log. the mp3s just won't play above some point.
i realised that some mp3s work after i recode them...

my server is running under windows 7. i do have the problem with both my client-pcs: windows 7, google chrome; ubuntu, google chrome

[BKKKPewsey]

Sorry to burst the bubble but they can't
SS will report the original bitrate. Check your log you should see FFMpeg doing it stuff.

[sindre_mehus]

Adding new settings in the transcoding applies them to existing players. This really screws things up when trying to add transcodings only meant to be used on the Android player.

This new system is much simpler, but takes a lot of flexibility away. I'm not sure I'll be able to use it over the long run. I frequently get 70 to 80 players generated. If I add Android specific transcodings, but have no control over the setting being default or not and it applies to all existing players already in use, I'll foul up all the desktop players when I add the android specific settings.

This is exactly the opposite behavior of previous versions that allowed you to select whether or not a transcoding was a default setting and it then had to be added to any previously generated player.

Adding the default check box back in would be helpful and probably make things easier to manage. I wouldn't have an issue with default setting being updated on all exising players if new settings NOT checked as default could be added without updating all players automatically.

I'd like to have the "Enabled" checkbox back as well. This was invaluable in the past for trying different transcodings without losing previous work. Perhaps, just enabling an "Advanced Mode" on the transcoding page that reverts to the old style for us old timers. This way, new users have a simplified interface and tweakers would still be able to have the power and flexibility of the previous setup.

Let's say you want to use ogg transcoding for streaming to Android. Then I think it should work to create a new entry in Settings > Transcoding, making sure it's below the existing "mp3 audio" entry. The new entry, call it "ogg audio", will be almost identical to "mp3 audio", but of course convert to ogg rather than mp3.

Then turn off the "mp3 audio" transcoding for your Android players and you're good to go.

I haven't tested this myself, but I think it should work. Subsonic picks the first eligible transcoding in the list when it transcodes a given file for a given player.

Sindre

[GJ51]

Thanks Sindre,

I'll give it a try and let you know how it goes.

[corbincc]

what is the command line to transcode mp3 to ogg?

[sindre_mehus]

what is the command line to transcode mp3 to ogg?

Try this:

ffmpeg -i %s -ab %bk -v 0 -f ogg -

[corbincc]

ffmpeg -v 0 -i %s -f ogg -vn -acodec libvorbis -ar 44100 -aq 2 -ac 2 -map_meta_data 0:0 -

this is what i got working on the android player.. but now i have to uncheck all the other players.. because the webplayer in subsonic now will NOT stream unless I uncheck mp3>ogg... why?

[GJ51]

Adding new settings in the transcoding applies them to existing players. This really screws things up when trying to add transcodings only meant to be used on the Android player.

This new system is much simpler, but takes a lot of flexibility away. I'm not sure I'll be able to use it over the long run. I frequently get 70 to 80 players generated. If I add Android specific transcodings, but have no control over the setting being default or not and it applies to all existing players already in use, I'll foul up all the desktop players when I add the android specific settings.

This is exactly the opposite behavior of previous versions that allowed you to select whether or not a transcoding was a default setting and it then had to be added to any previously generated player.

Adding the default check box back in would be helpful and probably make things easier to manage. I wouldn't have an issue with default setting being updated on all exising players if new settings NOT checked as default could be added without updating all players automatically.

I'd like to have the "Enabled" checkbox back as well. This was invaluable in the past for trying different transcodings without losing previous work. Perhaps, just enabling an "Advanced Mode" on the transcoding page that reverts to the old style for us old timers. This way, new users have a simplified interface and tweakers would still be able to have the power and flexibility of the previous setup.

Let's say you want to use ogg transcoding for streaming to Android. Then I think it should work to create a new entry in Settings > Transcoding, making sure it's below the existing "mp3 audio" entry. The new entry, call it "ogg audio", will be almost identical to "mp3 audio", but of course convert to ogg rather than mp3.

Then turn off the "mp3 audio" transcoding for your Android players and you're good to go.

I haven't tested this myself, but I think it should work. Subsonic picks the first eligible transcoding in the list when it transcodes a given file for a given player.

Sindre

This does not work for mp3's because mp3's are not transcoded (normally), therefore new players pick up the mp3 to ogg transcoding defined for the Android Player and try to convert any mp3's to ogg on the desktop player, which of course won't pkay in JW like they will on Android.

The only way to make this work is to add back in a check box for "Default" that if unchecked prevents the new setting from automatically being applied to all Players. If there is a "Default" setting we could then just apply new settings to specific players without disabling new players. Alternatively, you could set up a transcoding area specifically for mobile devices that would not affect the desktop players.

I would also like to know what you do on the demo site to deal with the multitude of generated "Guest" Players that you must get. I know how to clear them through the dbview window, but most users probably don't. It would be very nice indeed if there was a daily routine that ran to clear the guest players. Perhaps a selection on the Players screen to auto clear once per day with an option to clear them manually from time to time.