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Subsonic 4.4.beta1 released

PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:02 pm
by sindre_mehus
Hi all,

Subsonic 4.4.beta1 was released today with the following changes:

New: Added https support.
New: Added option to open video in resizable window.
New: Improved search with accented characters (e.g., searching for "bartok" will match "bartók").
New: Added REST API method for scrobbling to last.fm.
New: Added Greek translation, courtesy of Constantine Samaklis.
Bugfix: When converting videos, always use a width that is a multiple of two.
Bugfix: Handle invalid pixel aspect rates (PAR) reported by ffmpeg.
Bugfix: Don't scrobble videos to last.fm.
Bugfix: Remember port number and memory settings when reinstalling on Windows.
Bugfix: Accessing "Newest" album list from Android sometimes caused an error.

Please leave your comments below!

Thanks,
Sindre

PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:43 pm
by bushman4
Bugfix: Remember port number and memory settings when reinstalling on Windows.


You have got to love a product that has such an active developer... this was a Feature Request that I submitted just 6 days ago!

He even handled the third part of the request, which was to kill the Subsonic-Agent.exe program during installation if it is running to surpress the "cannot replace subsonic-agent.exe" message that used to come up during an upgrade. It even killed the second copy running under a disconnected Remote Desktop session!

Thanks Sindre!

Glenn

PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:10 pm
by GJ51
Kudos! :D

I just upgraded one of my servers. Upgrade was flawless and effortless. Upgrade retained port number and all settings from previous version. It actually took longer to do the download than to run and test the install.

Great job Sindre!

PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:22 pm
by GJ51
Unreal!! All 3 servers upgraded, up and running, no observable issues in under 10 min.

Love the video pop out window.

Thanks again Sindre. Another donation on the way!

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:47 pm
by sindre_mehus
Thanks again Gary, glad you like it :-)

Re: Subsonic 4.4.beta1 released

PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:42 pm
by maxslug
Hi Sindre,

I agree, nice work on the "release often" philosophy. You're making the rest of us open source authors look bad. :)

sindre_mehus wrote:Hi all,
New: Added https support.


Could you elaborate? Does this mean you can browse as https:// and then stream as http:// ?

-m

PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:51 pm
by bushman4
in the windows version it's as simple as checking a checkbox to allow h t t p s support. Then browsing and streaming over the https port just work...

PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:23 am
by GJ51
Ok bushman4, now you've got my curiosity goin! Just where is that little checkbox anyway???

Never mind - I found it!! Thanks for the hint.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:44 am
by seanpkeown
Hi Sindre,
I have a quick question on how to make my name.subsonic.org redirect to https. When i try to browse to http://name.subsonic.org it will redirect me to http://x.x.x.x:442/subsonic instead of https://x.x.x.x:442/subsonic. Causing a blank page to show up.

OS = Windows Server 2008
WebServer = Running Tomcat 6
Subsonic = 4.4.beta1


Thanks for the wonderful product and the frequent updates.

~ Sean K

PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:14 am
by burjast
Question for all you subsonicguys out there:

How much cpu is ffmpeg taking when playing movies through subsonic?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:25 am
by sindre_mehus
seanpkeown wrote:Hi Sindre,
I have a quick question on how to make my name.subsonic.org redirect to https. When i try to browse to http://name.subsonic.org it will redirect me to http://x.x.x.x:442/subsonic instead of https://x.x.x.x:442/subsonic. Causing a blank page to show up.

~ Sean K


Sounds like a bug. It' supposed to redirect like this: http://name.subsonic.org -> http://x.x.x.x:8080/subsonic -> https://x.x.x.x:442/subsonic

Could you please post or PM me your subsonic.org address so I can look into it?

Thank you!

PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:02 am
by utopian
wonderful... the port changing always annoyed me a bit.. this is just great.

Well done as always..:)

PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:58 pm
by cabotine
amazing
thx for the easy way to https

btw. is it possible to have more than one server in the android app?
That means, does it make sense to convince my friends to set up their subsonic server? ;)

PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:01 pm
by bushman4
The android app has the facility to save three different server's information.

One thing I have not tried: can I add items to my playlist on the 'droid app from multiple servers? I'll have to go test...

HTH,

Glenn

Re: Subsonic 4.4.beta1 released

PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:33 pm
by maxslug
maxslug wrote:
sindre_mehus wrote:Hi all,
New: Added https support.


Could you elaborate? Does this mean you can browse as https:// and then stream as http:// ?

-m


I just realized my source of confusion. I reverse proxy the server, so https:// was already working. I realized that https:// was added to the native hosted server under port 442.

The problem I have is that most players don't support streaming over https. Is it possible to host the website over https but force the streams to default to http?

-m