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by **fonsoy** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:20 pm

Core i3 2100
Asrock H67-V PRO
Highpoint RocketRAID 2322 doing raid5.
Samsung HD204UI 2TB HDD x 4

Running on Windows Server 2008R2

Very fast setup compared to what I had, used to have an Atom, hopefully I can use this machine for quite some years. I get 300MB/s read and 180MB/s writespeeds.

by **Hellscream** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:43 pm

@wiobyrne
Folder accordion make faster loading of SS page on slower PC with slow net, also help me navigate faster through folders. About upload function: window that open on new tab or new window (depend what browser u use and what settings u have) is pretty functional with names of person that upload to your SS so i always know what is going on.
And what i like most is Revolver Maps

its fancy and provide me a lot of statistics about visitors generally and currently active visitors on page.
Similar Artist widget its awesome works perfectly and its good for expanding your library ( no more browsing on FM).
Style is in developing faze this is only a makeup later i will add custom icons, later if i can figure out how to customize scroll bars hm that will be final faze.
Still need few advise about colors i use its a good contrast but i like to hear other peoples opinions.
Feel free to visit and post some suggestions.

by **wiobyrne** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:56 pm

Looks great. Now I need to decide if I want to keep my library organized as is...and add accordion folders...or move everything to genre folders....

Hmmm... choices.

by **mellofone** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:33 pm

- AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition Deneb 3.0GHz Quad Core processor.
- 8GB RAM
- Runs Arch Linux
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250G as root drive
- External Array cage: Sans Digital TR8M-BP 8 Bay SATA to eSATA (Port Multiplier) enclosure.
- 6 RAID5 drives (mounted /mnt/raid5): Western Digital Caviar Green WD7500AADS 750GB (5 in array, 1 hot spare).
- runs MythTV 24/7 with 4 HD tuners and 3 SD tuners

I still haven't messed with video much, only audio with Subsonic. I use Samba to share out video shares to different devices in the house for movies and such, and MythTV does it's own uPNP sharing for recorded television.

by **wiobyrne** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:46 pm

@mellofone...

I have been trying to read up on Samba to share the music around my house. Currently I have Subsonic running on three different iPhone/iPod Touches..and my Incredible. I just start up the apps and run the music using the home wireless. What would I gain by using Samba?

Thanks in advance...

by **mellofone** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:59 pm

@wiobyrne

All samba does is emulate windows file sharing for a linux server (that's very drastic oversimplication, but perfect for this discussion).

I have several frontends (an LG BluRay network player for example) that has CIFS/Samba client support that allows me to connect directly to Samba shares to play music and videos. Unless your specific clients support it, adding Samba wouldn't help you at all.

by **wiobyrne** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:36 am

Thanks @mellofone

I don't think I would gain anything yet by working on Samba shares. I think my next steps are...short of really overhauling my machine:

reorganizing my library to sort by genre...artist...album...
figuring out how to port forward my VNC so we all can access outside my network

Thanks again

by **trickydick** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:54 pm

So i see alot of hardware, but nothing on the software side. How are you hosting Subsonic?

Hardware (nothing special):

Code: Select all: ASUS M4A785-MICRO AMD Phenom III 8750 (triple-core) 8GB DDR3 Memory Total 2.65 TB Drives

Software:

Code: Select all: Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Apache Tomcat 6.0 (64-bit) Subsonic 4.5 beta 1 (modified)

I can tell you this: Tomcat makes all the difference in speed, expecially 64-bit.

by **GJ51** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:53 am

Is Tomacat just a ball bearing mouse trap? Just kidding. I gotta try it when I get the motivation.

by **trickydick** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:47 pm

So i now run my subsonic through IIS that redirects to tomcat all on port 80. the great thing is I can now host my asp/asp.net sites as well.

by **haifa** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:26 am

thanks for sharing!!!

by **csobsidian** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:53 pm

I have just reinstalled my server. I migrated from Fedora12/Amahi as I found it to be a real pain in the butt with sluggish support.

Hardware wise my server is an Intel Xeon X3430 Quad Core running @ 2.4GHZ. The processor is running on a SuperMicro MBD-X8SIE-O motherboad residing in a matching SuperMicro CSE-822T-400LPB 2u rack-mount chassis with 8GB of memory. I have 1x 500GB OS and Client backup hard drive and 5x 2TB drives used for a combination of file sharing and backups.

My new setup utilizes Windows Home Server 2011, though without Drive Extender I was loath to go this route. I believe, now that I have my setup up and running, that my decision will ultimately be rewarded as this system is rock solid. I did not go RAID, mostly from a lack of experience and comfort diving into something new when I was already diving into a new OS.

I have nightly backups for all my PCs in the house and I have a persistent VPN to my sister's network which will be used to replicate my server to a duplicate rig at her house. I also have a persistent VPN to my workplace and perform nightly encrypted backups of our mission critical data (because I perform this service for them, they shared the cost of the hardware purchases).

I am serving Subsonic 4.5 (just upgraded this morning) with Tomcat 6.0.32 through an IIS proxy (see my tutorial for more details). I serve music to PCs at home but also to laptops and mobile phones abroad.

My audio collection is fairly modest compared to others here:
158 artists
1,602 albums
19,207 songs
148.36 GB (~ 2,304 hours)

If you tack on my video collection, most of which is not available on Subsonic, you can throw about 2.5TB on top of that. I stream HD video to my TV via a WD TV Live Plus.

by **wiobyrne** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:59 pm

Hi all,

Thanks for sharing. I plan up updating to 4.5 on Ubuntu as soon as I finish up this post. That being said, how many of you worry about securing your set-up...or better off...should I be worrying about securing my set-up?

I have about 400 GB of music now as a couple friends and family upload their libraries. At a given time we have anywhere from 1 to 4 people streaming. I didn't see anything wrong, or different from what I've got running and what I can get from Google Music. Do I have to "turn on" SSL, or anything else to really secure my library?

by **tricksel** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:23 am

I'm running Subsonic on my (Debian) fileserver at home. In total, the fileserver consists of 16 disks at the moment:

Code: Select all: Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes Disk /dev/sdd: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes Disk /dev/sde: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes Disk /dev/sdf: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes Disk /dev/sdg: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes Disk /dev/sdh: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes Disk /dev/sdi: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes Disk /dev/sdj: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes Disk /dev/sdk: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes Disk /dev/sdm: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes Disk /dev/sdn: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes Disk /dev/sdl: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes Disk /dev/sdo: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes Disk /dev/sdp: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes

Music is being served off a RAID5 array of 4 500GB drives (sde-sdh), so in total I have 1.5TB available for my music, of which about 350GB is used right now. I'm still in the process of re-transcoding all my music to lossless (AAC), from a variation of mp3 bitrates. A tedious process which I dearly would have been able to automate. Unfortunately, CD-feeding needs some hands...
For transcoding I use XLC on my Mac. For tagging MusicBrainz Picard is used, which I think does a very nice job.

by **ccandreva** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 3:33 pm

I have Subsonic running on a 2.8ghz Pentium D machine with a bit over 3gig ram, currently running Fedora 15. It's an old desktop a client was using as a server, a BTX form factor machine if you ever heard of one of those. The server sits in my basement and does double duty, running both Subsonic and a MythTV backend http://www.mythtv.org/.

It has three 2Tb drives, two 750gb, and 1 500gb. One of the 750gb drives is dedicated to music, the rest to MythTV recordings and ripped videos.

It has 2 sound cards (built in and USB). One is dedicated to Subsonic's Jukebox, going into a distribution amp where it feeds the living room stereo (directly above), and a small FM transmitter for audio anywhere else in the house. The other is used my a MythTV frontend running on the machine itself, hooked to the basement gameroom TV.

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