Broken Features Past 4.8

[MooseOnTehloose]

I recently upgraded from 4.8 to the beta for 5.0, and I'm noticing some features that are broken. After doing some testing with other releases, I've found that this functionality stopped working after 4.8.

Problem: Flac support is broken for many files.

Solution: You must add a new transcoding for FLAC files

Convert From
flac

Convert To
mp3

Step 1
ffmpeg -i %s -v 0 -f wav -

Step 2
lame -b %b --tt %t --ta %a --tl %l -S --resample 44.1 - -


Problem: Subsonic playback behavior is malfunctioning

Taken from the patch notes for 4.9Beta4:

New: When playing a song from a playlist, queue other songs in that playlist.
New: When clicking the play icon for a song, add whole album to play queue.


I do not understand the reasoning behind these two patches. Why is it assumed that you would even want to play all songs from a playlist if you select one of them? There is already a way to play all songs in a playlist, simply select the play icon next to the playlist or album.

This functionality is also broken. It clearly stats that the whole album is added to the play queue, but this is not how subsonic behaves. Pressing the play icon next to a song halfway down the playlist will only add subsequent songs, not preceeding ones.


Solution: Revert to Subsonic 4.8


As of now with the way subsonic is behaving, there seems to be no easier solution than to just stay on 4.8