Disappointing Upgrade

[daneren2005]

With other programs out there like Plex and XBMC, there isnt much of a place for Subsonic. Both PLEX and XBMC really do everything Subsonic does 100000s of times better.

Unless I am completely wrong - not having used both programs, the great thing about Subsonic, apart from the simple and straight forward GUI, is that no listener needs to install anything. A working IP address and a browser is all you need. Both Plex and XBMC seemingly need to be installed on every device and in every location.

Transcoding is another great thing: while I can still play high end lossless music files locally, streaming is - in my case - downsampled to 192 kbps, making it possible to have a lot of streams to the outside world simultaneously without any hiccups or delays. I stick with good ol' Subsonic - still 4.8......

I HAVE used both and they both suck for music.. no where near the simplicity and intuitiveness of Sub. I think Plex does vid better than Sub, but I'm not much of a video person lan-wise as I prefer putting my stuff on YouTube and cloud storage for ubiquity. Far more 'collective' and finicky about music. I think xbmc is nearly unusable for anything but stealing content, which it does well.

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I have to echo this. I keep hoping one day Subsonic will actually be usable for video, but Plex/XBMC are nowhere near replacing Subsonic when it comes to using them as a music driver.

[joost]

Only thing that im using subsonic for is music. I think the webui needs a replacement. The rest of the existing functionality is good, just bugfixing than its very good in the music part.

The video part is not my game, but i understand it stays behind.

So im not really disappointed, just hoping an webui redesign for v5 (and upnp working better)

[mr_nobody]

The only time I use the webui now is to refresh when adding new content. Even on windows, I use dsub in an android emulator just because I prefer its featureset!

I'm another only using subsonic for music. I only care about video at home and I have a simple solution there that works perfectly for me: windows dnla server and wifi bluray player hooked up to my tv. It just works.

Subsonic isn't perfect but it sounds like it is still the best thing going in terms of music so I'm stuck...