4.7 beta

[gurutech]

I have everything in folders by artist name, then by album name, so I have anywhere from 15-20 files in each folder (plus the album art stuff).

I'm actually running right now on a celeron processor with 2gb RAM, and the music is on a cifs share on another machine on my network, and the only time anything runs slow is around 2-3am when I have the index configured to re-sort or whatever it does, and that lasts about 30-60 mins.

[GJ51]

Remember also that you can always go to Settings/Search and select when you want the indexing to update.

CIFS is a dialect of SMB which I've seen a lot of users struggle with. Please share if you have any good tips on how you were able to get good performance, if you can. I'm sure there are many users that would appreciate knowing how to get smb shares to work well with Windows.

[gurutech]

It really wasn't all that difficult for me, even considering the fact that I'm not even close to being an "expert" in Linux.

Running Fedora 15:

I installed the Samba service, then modified my /etc/fstab file to include the line:

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//{windows IP address}/share_name       /media/music    cifs      rw,auto,user,credentials=/etc/.smbcreds    0 0


For those who know about auto-mounting a share, the items in the line above are:
Folder path
Mount Location
Mount type (cifs)
Parameters (rw=read/write, auto=automount, user=allow user access (not just "root access"), credentials= path to file with username and password)
The 0 0 tells fsck (the file system check utility) not to scan the location if it detects errors, and tells Linux not to mount it if it's not found.

That's really all I did. If you have a "space" in your share name, be sure to replace it with a "\040". ie: //ip_address/share\040name

[evanrich]

4.7 beta 1 used to be available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/subsonic/files/subsonic/4.7.beta1/ but looks like it's been removed.

[hakko]

I've built it from Subversion just to see what he's been up to.

The handling of MusicFile (now MediaFile) is re-written quite a lot to speed it up. Doesn't add much new features except this (and some changes to ratings and stuff):

http://i.imgur.com/toMH2.png

it's awesome that path has finally been replaced by id as main parameter to pass around!

[supra92]

Long time no see. Been away from SS forums for awhile, as I lost my job last August and spent some time in North Carolina for awhile. Came back to Texas in March and within a week had a job offer from my old company, so all's well that ends well. Been a hectic first couple months but finally back in the groove again.

The link to 4.7b1 looks like it's back up -- I snagged the WAR version and installed just now. The initial indexing takes some time, as expected (about 25 minutes to scan 59,300 files), but definitely nice to have an animated "Scanning files: xxxxx" counter in the upper right corner, rather than having to constantly click Refresh on the Logs screen.

One thing that's a notable departure -- the albums no longer show in their usual sorted order by directory name. It appears it is taking the ID3 tag of the album and going by that instead. All of my directories for, say, Dire Straits, are: 1978 - Dire Straits, 1979 - Communique, 1980 - Moving Pictures, 1982 - Love Over Gold, etc. etc. Now I'm seeing them purely alphabetical: Brothers In Arms, Communique, Dire Straits, Love Over Gold, Making Movies, etc. I'm guessing there's a way to change this, but haven't found it offhand -- will reply back if it turns up.

Cheers,
Supra92

[BKKKPewsey]

Hi Supra welcome back

One thing that's a notable departure -- the albums no longer show in their usual sorted order by directory name. It appears it is taking the ID3 tag of the album and going by that instead

That will be fine (for those that of us that tag correctly ) but it also needs to do a primary sort on the year tag.
This may get a bit confusing depending on what version of tags you are using eg: ID3.2v3 or ID3.2v4.

However, as we all know, the 4.7 betas are very much WIP at the moment so we will have to wait until Sindre decides that they are good enough for public consumption before cheering (or booing )

[GJ51]

I just downloaded and installed the Windows 4.7 beta1 and I get the same results with Java 6.31 and Java 7.4 on two servers. Anyone else seeing the same issue?

[GJ51]

Java 7.4 is the problem. 4.7 still not working with Java 7.4.

Scanning library on a clean 4.7 b1 install now, testing to begin shortly.

Installation over working 4.6 gave a 503 error.

EDIT: Just on a hunch, I uninstalled Java, and Subsonic and did a clean install of Java 7.4 and SS 4.7 beta 1 and it's working now, currently scanning files.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/subsoni ... 4.7.beta1/

The beta is back up.

[GJ51]

Got my 4.7 Beta 1 mojo back!

wtv and all video fromats performing perfectly. I used a different version of ffmpeg to get some video files working again, I'll be happy to post it for download if anyone else is having video issues. Even indexing is now working on wtv files.

I also have mp3 to ogg set up for Android. I wish that SS would automatically use the settings for all Android devices that log on, but for now I'll just have to define the transcoding to ogg for each individual player as they log on.

All videos now display "null" instead of the name of the video in the "Now playing" section.

[GJ51]

Lyrics is still not working.

Anyone figured out how to import playlists?

[bushman4]

Interesting that Sindre has not announced the availability of a new beta yet... doesn't he usually?

Glenn

[GJ51]

yeah, I wondered about that too, but maybe since this thread is already started, he just decided to let it ride. 4.7b1 is smokin fast! I've got all the basics working and already gave Sindre a few bug feedback reports, but i"m getting the impression that he's keeping the release low key to keep the influx of chatter at a reasonable level. I know he gets flooded with trivial emails and is looking at cutting it down.

http://XW8600.sunsonic.org

I forgot your Creds; send me a PM withU/P if you want to go for a test drive.

Try search - incredibly fast.


Cheers

G

[alphawave7]

yeah, I wondered about that too, but maybe since this thread is already started, he just decided to let it ride. 4.7b1 is smokin fast! I've got all the basics working and already gave Sindre a few bug feedback reports, but i"m getting the impression that he's keeping the release low key to keep the influx of chatter at a reasonable level. I know he gets flooded with trivial emails and is looking at cutting it down.

http://XW8600.sunsonic.org

I forgot your Creds; send me a PM withU/P if you want to go for a test drive.

Try search - incredibly fast.


Cheers

G

Excellent...we get a lot of search related posts...so speed and accuracy will be welcome.


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[mesc]

Heya,

just installed 4.7b1 last night and it is still scanning my media folders... why is the first time scan taking THAT long? Hope that won't take so long on every update scan which i perform every 2 days. This would make the new subsonic pretty useless for me...

subsonic.log excerpt:

[2012-05-16 19:31:40,948] INFO MediaScannerService - Starting to scan media library.
...
[2012-05-17 12:25:41,013] INFO MediaScannerService - Scanned media library with 414500 entries.
...
and still counting.

Thanks the help.