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Inspiration by various posters in a feature request here: Set default view to NEWEST instead of random

to have the suggested mod (newest view instead of random view in main tab) not only show up when manually navigating to home.view or when first logging in, but also when staying there refreshing as often as the randow view to keep the newest view almost updated in real-time, follow below instructions acurately!


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[OPTIONAL]
(to make "newest" appear leftmost in the main tab)
In home.jsp in subsonic/jetty/xxxx/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp find:

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<c:forTokens items="random newest highest frequent recent users" delims=" " var="cat" varStatus="loopStatus">

replace with:

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<c:forTokens items="newest highest frequent recent random users" delims=" " var="cat" varStatus="loopStatus">

save!


[NEEDED]
in index.jsp find:

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<frame name="main" src="nowPlaying.view?" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

replace with:

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<frame name="main" src="home.view?listSize=10&listType=newest" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">


save!


in top.jsp find:

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<td class="logo" style="padding-right:2em"><a href="home.view?" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="logoImage"/>" title="${help}" alt=""></a></td>
    <c:if test="${not model.musicFoldersExist}">
        <td style="padding-right:2em">
            <p class="warning"><fmt:message key="top.missing"/></p>
        </td>
    </c:if>
    <td>
        <table><tr align="center">
            <td style="min-width:4em;padding-right:1.5em">
                <a href="home.view?" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="homeImage"/>" title="${home}" alt="${home}"></a><br>
                <a href="home.view?" target="main">${home}</a>


replace with:

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<td class="logo" style="padding-right:2em"><a href="home.view?listSize=10&listType=newest" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="logoImage"/>" title="${help}" alt=""></a></td>
    <c:if test="${not model.musicFoldersExist}">
        <td style="padding-right:2em">
            <p class="warning"><fmt:message key="top.missing"/></p>
        </td>
    </c:if>
    <td>
        <table><tr align="center">
            <td style="min-width:4em;padding-right:1.5em">
                <a href="home.view?listSize=10&listType=newest" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="homeImage"/>" title="${home}" alt="${home}"></a><br>
                <a href="home.view?listSize=10&listType=newest" target="main">${home}</a>


save!

DONE!
enjoy!

EDIT: works now!
fixed error in code snipped

hey

I try to use this but I can't find the line

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<frame name="main" src="home.view?" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

in my index.jsp

weird

benzubi wrote:hey

I try to use this but I can't find the line

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<frame name="main" src="home.view?" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

in my index.jsp

weird

That IS weird, as this file defines the main frameset and only contains some 27 lines. Have you tried looking by hand/eye? In my case its line 16, you should really be able to find it.

Take a look at my file

/var/subsonic/jetty/2169/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp

MOD: Removed pic link as no longer showing correct image

Am I blind or did I miss somthing?

nope I'm sorry. I was stupid and forgot I had edited the "nowPlaying.view" to "main.view". Use that line and it should work just fine. The line with "name="main" src="nowPlaying.view" it is.

ok

works fine indeed.

this feature should be in the next release, it's so nice to have new stuff as home page when using it with friends!

Nice

Awesome work working fine +1

Does this tweak :

1) Differentiate NEW from MODIFIED? If I select New I do not want to see modified entries come up!
2) work on version 3.7?

Thx!

If you modify files inside folders nothing will be registered, but if you change folder it will be shown as new in your library. About version 3.7 i think it will work fine just back up before u change anything.

does this still work? I cant find the code in the top.jsp

boognish43 wrote:does this still work? I cant find the code in the top.jsp

Where does it say edit top.jsp

3R3 wrote:Inspiration by various posters in a feature request here: Set default view to NEWEST instead of random

in top.jsp find:

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<td class="logo" style="padding-right:2em"><a href="home.view?" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="logoImage"/>" title="${help}" alt=""></a></td>
    <c:if test="${not model.musicFoldersExist}">
        <td style="padding-right:2em">
            <p class="warning"><fmt:message key="top.missing"/></p>
        </td>
    </c:if>
    <td>
        <table><tr align="center">
            <td style="min-width:4em;padding-right:1.5em">
                <a href="home.view?" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="homeImage"/>" title="${home}" alt="${home}"></a><br>
                <a href="home.view?" target="main">${home}</a>


replace with:

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<td class="logo" style="padding-right:2em"><a href="home.view?listSize=10&listType=newest" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="logoImage"/>" title="${help}" alt=""></a></td>
    <c:if test="${not model.musicFoldersExist}">
        <td style="padding-right:2em">
            <p class="warning"><fmt:message key="top.missing"/></p>
        </td>
    </c:if>
    <td>
        <table><tr align="center">
            <td style="min-width:4em;padding-right:1.5em">
                <a href="home.view?listSize=10&listType=newest" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="homeImage"/>" title="${home}" alt="${home}"></a><br>
                <a href="home.view?listSize=10&listType=newest" target="main">${home}</a>


save!

DONE!
enjoy!

EDIT: works now!
fixed error in code snipped

In the original post.. am I missing something?

I think we both need new glasses
Yes you are right but I just checked my top.jsp file (4.6beta2) and the code is there.

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<td class="logo" style="padding-right:2em"><a href="help.view?" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="logoImage"/>" title="${help}" alt=""></a></td>

    <c:if test="${not model.musicFoldersExist}">
        <td style="padding-right:2em">
            <p class="warning"><fmt:message key="top.missing"/></p>
        </td>
    </c:if>

    <td>
        <table><tr align="center">
            <td style="min-width:4em;padding-right:1.5em">
                <a href="home.view?" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="homeImage"/>" title="${home}" alt="${home}"></a><br>
                <a href="home.view?" target="main">${home}</a>
            </td>
            <td style="min-width:4em;padding-right:1.5em">
                <a href="nowPlaying.view?" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="nowPlayingImage"/>" title="${nowPlaying}" alt="${nowPlaying}"></a><br>
                <a href="nowPlaying.view?" target="main">${nowPlaying}</a>
            </td>

Thanks a lot for this!