by nipar » Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:49 am
How to upload properly:
First
make sure you have a program that can create zip files such as whatever_your_file_name_is.zip.
Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 have this built in and it works with this site. Right click on a file or folder and choose "Create Archive".
Linux programs such as tar gzip and others: tar can make file with zip extensions just by ending the archive name in .zip. Most do, but it pays to be sure.
Second
Understand how to arrange your music so it is stored properly when you upload it. How folders are structured is very important.
Say you have a song and it's songname of album abc by artist/group/band singer.On my site music is arranged by artist first.
On your home computer/laptop you would make first a folder for the artist called "singer", then inside that you make a folder for the album called "abc", then inside that you copy the song(s) that belong to that album.
Do not worry about track numbers, titles, genres and such. Those can be edited on the music server using the "Edit Tags" menu.
Third
Now use your zip program to add the artist named folder to a new archive and the folders inside will be automatically included.
In Windows you right click the artist name folder and choose "Create archive". You will be prompted to give it a name and a place to save it. Remember the name and place so you can upload it later.
In Linux you will have to follow the instruction for you particular archiving program. Make sure you create a zip file.
Fourth and last
Once you have your zip file ready, click the "More" menu button at the top of Subsonic. Scroll down and you will find the Uploader.
There are 2 text boxes: "Select file" and "Upload to".
Click the "Browse" button next to the "Select file" to find the zip file of music on your computer. When you have found it, click on it and click the "Open" button. Now pay close attention to the box labelled "Upload to"!!
The text in the box should read "/var/music/Incoming" if you used the default from install. If you are unsure that you arranged you music properly and you would like to check how it works first, make sure the "Automatically unpack zip-file" checkbox is CHECKED and just click the "Upload" button. You will still be able to play the music by clicking on "Incoming" in the left index. You can move it by sftp or ssh to the correct main music folder later.
If you are confident you did it right, change "/var/music/Incoming" to "/var/music" or where ever you put your main music collection,make sure the "Automatically unpack zip-file" checkbox is CHECKED and click the "Upload" button.
If you have more than one album just repeat the above steps. If you have multiple albums by the same artist, just create inside the artist named folder a folder for each album, put the right songs in each folder and then create your archive/zip file.
Hope this helped you.
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