Subsonic Android 1.3 released

[sindre_mehus]

The Subsonic Android app version 1.3 was released today, so please pick it up from Android Market.

This update is mainly a major facelift of the user interface. I will continue working on the Android app, focusing on new features and bug fixes.

Thanks for your attention
Sindre

[mjones73]

I've been using it for about an hour this morning, so far so good. It sounds like you resolved the playback gap on partially downloaded files, thank you so much for that.

Matt

[dcastellani]

Sindre,

Awesome work, I think its a step in the right direction. first thing i noticed was when doing fast scrolling (artist by letter) in the Music library, the popup that tells you what letter you are on comes up black. When i have my Nexus One in my car dock, it is very very hard to see the letter.

Other than that it has been working better than ever. Thank you!

[woohah]

Working as intended on the Motorola Droid. Awesome job Sindre!!

[AmazingLarry]

Very cool, looks great. Can't wait to see the new features!

[chiefz0r]

I am having a problem with using subsonic android 1.3 in conjunction with subsonic 4.0.1 on my PC.

The new player is able to play songs that were previously cached as well as browse my library perfectly. However, whenever I try playing a song that is not cached, it fails with a message "Error downloading 'song name'"

To make matters worse, once this fails, pressing stop on the player doesn't seem to stop subsonic from trying to play the song. I had to force stop it. Is anyone else having this problem? There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with my setup that I know of and it worked fine with Subsonic 1.2 on android.

[sindre_mehus]

Can you please click on the error notification and post the details?

When this happens you can long-click on a song in the playlist and select "Remove all".

Hope to fix this, but I gotta understand what's going on first.

Thanks

[chiefz0r]

I was able to fix the problem for myself, but it was a bit of an odd fix.

I tried clearing Subsonic's cached music through the application. It appeared to clear, but gave no feedback as to whether it succeeded or failed. I then went and checked and all cached music was still there on my SD card.

I tried using Astro file manager to delete the folder from my SD card, and it gave me an error saying it could not be deleted (I assume that this error is why Subsonic could not delete it as well but am not sure).

By mounting the SD card to my PC I was able to delete the entire subsonic folder from my SD card without any issues. Now that I have done this, Subsonic appears to be back to working 100% normally.

Unfortunately I was not able to click that error to get more details for you since I have already resolved my problem and am not exactly sure how to reproduce it. Hopefully this information is useful though.

[hyatari]

sindre, i just wanted to let you know ive been running android 2.2 on my moto droid for a few days and the issue with the first couple tracks skipping while popping up a notification seems to have disappeard. so it may have been an OS issue mostly. tested on both subsonic 1.2 and 1.3 android app.

[Headcase_Fargone]

I just recently discovered Subsonic and as I'm on a shiny new Android phone have been playing around with it a bit. Awesome work so far, really.

As far as 1.3, I know this might seem petty, but... any chance of getting the old black theme back as an option?

[eightpock]

Sindre,

I also am experiencing the "Error Downloading" problem. Notification:


Error

Error Downloading "Title of Song"

/sdcard/subsonic/music/artist/song.mp3.partial
(FileNotFoundException)


There is nothing in the playlist, I've restarted Subsonic (linux based), Cleared cache, deleted subsonic folder on phone.. Error message won't go away. I've had *some* success at starting another track and it will go away.



BTW... Love the new look of Subsonic Andriod app!

[amiantos]

I have no complaints.. other than that I hope my Last.FM de-integration suggestion is taken to heart (turn off last.fm scrobbling on the server when listening from Android and allow Last.FM on the device to scrobble).

Looks real nice.

P.S. Yesterday I had about 20 people on my Subsonic server at once, transcoding and listening... actually overheated and crashed my laptop, but now it's running fine. Just an FYI so you know it scales up pretty good.

[ccandreva]

I think I had a problem with the previous Android version downloading songs with non-ascii characters in the file name or path. I say "I think" because I was trying a number of things and I'm not sure which one solved the problem.

Sorry I can't be more specific, but it's something to check if you had this problem. See if the file having a problem has an accented letter or anything like that.

[baaldemon]

Still having issues with "largerish" files and trying to download them to the phone.

In the error dialog it says error download <song title>

Failed to rename <filename>.tmp to <filename> (IO Exception)

This seems to only happen on files which are larger than 8MB and not consistently on them. Looking at the files on the phone I see a .complete file with the correct file size and a .partial file from the new try of downloading the file. If I manually rename the .complete to .mp3 its the full file. This happens whether im on wifi or on 3g. Heres what the server side log looks like when this happens

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[2010-06-09 22:34:54,470] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 09 - An deiner Seite.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:35:09,530] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[8992578,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:35:09,531] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 09 - An deiner Seite.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:35:19,534] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[8992578,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:35:19,535] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 09 - An deiner Seite.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:35:29,618] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[8992578,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:35:29,619] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 09 - An deiner Seite.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:35:39,783] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 10 - Die Bestie.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:35:50,133] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 09 - An deiner Seite.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:36:10,159] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[8992578,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:36:10,160] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 09 - An deiner Seite.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:36:20,162] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[8992578,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:36:20,163] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 09 - An deiner Seite.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:36:30,182] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[8992578,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:36:30,183] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 09 - An deiner Seite.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:36:42,311] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 11 - Lampenfieber.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:36:52,395] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 09 - An deiner Seite.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:37:17,449] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[8992578,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:37:17,450] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 09 - An deiner Seite.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:37:27,149] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 12 - Wie viele Jahre.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:37:47,554] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[6984123,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:37:47,555] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 12 - Wie viele Jahre.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:37:52,595] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 13 - Glaub an mich.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:38:02,670] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 14 - Spielzeugmann.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:38:17,745] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[8281236,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:38:17,746] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 14 - Spielzeugmann.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:38:32,841] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[8281236,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:38:32,842] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 14 - Spielzeugmann.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:38:42,862] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[8281236,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:38:42,863] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 14 - Spielzeugmann.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:38:52,869] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[8281236,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:38:52,870] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 14 - Spielzeugmann.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:39:02,878] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[8281236,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:39:02,879] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 14 - Spielzeugmann.mp3"
[2010-06-09 22:39:12,888] INFO StreamController - Got range: Range[8281236,9223372036854775807]
[2010-06-09 22:39:12,889] INFO PlaylistInputStream - user listening to "Puppenspiel/Unheilig - 14 - Spielzeugmann.mp3"


[James Hart]

looks awesome! runs great so far on my Samsung Moment running a rooted and tweaked install of 2.1

Thanks for all the hard work on this Sindre!