Subsonic 4.2.beta1 released

[sindre_mehus]

Hi all!

Subsonic 4.2.beta1 is now ready, please try it out!

o New: New & improved search engine based on Lucene.
o New: New & improved cover art search based on Google Image Search.
o New: Mac installer now includes transcoders, courtesy of einstein2x.
o New: Updated German translation, courtesy of deejay2302.
o New: Improved LAME integration (preserve ID3 tags, avoid skipping in Android client).
o New: Added new REST API method for searching.
o Bugfix: Fixed bug in startup script in standalone Subsonic (readlink).

Thank you,
Sindre

[stueyboy]

Nice one! Seems to be functioning well. I have one thing that i have noticed for now and that is that the now playing link along the top doesn't seem to be working for me. Is this the same for anyone else?

EDIT: Seems to be working now. Maybe it was doing some indexing that was screwing things up.

[potatiking]

Nice for me too!

Works like a charm. The Google Album Cover Lookup work very good.

The only trouble I´m having now is the frame top left. When I dropbox "All Folders" - the total amount is very wrong.
It drops from:

1 640 artister
1 521 album
21 461 melodier
129,54 GB (~ 2 012 timmar)

into:

81 artister
21 album
363 melodier
1,65 GB (~ 25 timmar).

All my other choices in this dropbox shows the first numbers.

[deejay2302]

*Bad:

I find the new Version of Search engine is not good.

I Test it with an Interpret with the the most Albums on my Harddrives.
(The Albums are all ID3-tagged!!!)

The Interpret have normal over 50 Albums and 1183 Songs. The More Button is meaningless when i not see really more search results.

Subsonic find only: 10 Albums and 5 Songs. wth?

And i miss the Search for Albums, Interprets, and titels.

Sorry, but back to old Version.

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Good:

The New Google Cover Search Function. Works a little bit better.

[utopian]

Nice for me too!

Works like a charm. The Google Album Cover Lookup work very good.

The only trouble I´m having now is the frame top left. When I dropbox "All Folders" - the total amount is very wrong.
It drops from:

1 640 artister
1 521 album
21 461 melodier
129,54 GB (~ 2 012 timmar)

into:

81 artister
21 album
363 melodier
1,65 GB (~ 25 timmar).

All my other choices in this dropbox shows the first numbers.

yeah all my totals are wrong as well but the music folder beneath is fully populated...

[wally.nl]

I really like the new cover art search.

The new search needs some getting used to, not sure yet if I like it better than the old one.

[barretta]

Agree about the Lucene search. Doesn't seem to search for artists by default, though it will automatically search through albums and songs. Only way I could get it to search for artists was to prepend the string "artist:" to a search.

Google Image Search is excellent.

jetty-6.1.x, java 1.6.0_22, Mac OS X.5

[wraithdu]

I'm just trying this out running on Tomcat 6 x64, Win7 x64 Ultimate.

I have two problems.

1) I get a Java exception when trying to transcode from mp3 to ogg via ffmpeg and oggenc2...

**Edit
My bad, I had a subfolder named 'ffmpeg' in my transcode folder so it was trying to execute the folder, doh.

2) None of the tokens %s, %t, %a, %l are being replaced in step 2 of the transcoding process. The command line being passed to oggenc2 has just -t %t, -a %a, etc.

[wraithdu]

Well for whatever reason, problem #1 was solved by using ffmpeg.exe in the command. I don't know why. On another note, ffmpeg is failing to decode the mp3 file... annoying but not Subsonic's problem. Problem #2 still remains.

[soonerrob]

artist search seems to work on my install.. but it only displays the artist block if it finds results..

[kroken]

Tried it and find out that coversearchservice download pictures with bad quality and wrong cover, if i do a manually search for pics ialways find a better alternativ at the top results. seems like it dont update my new added albums either, am i dumb or just tired... how does the new function work exactly? i really like the new search feature. keep up the good work!

[tj78492]

the default search should use the tag info for artist search instead of checking the top-level directory structure like its currently doing "artists:*"

I think the advanced search page needs to be brought back where we can select values for the different fields, it'd be nice if the android app had a page similar to this too

We also need a way to get all results again, when you select more, you get more results but not all of them, and you can only press it once

[modemhead]

I really like the new cover search function (Google) , but i didnt find any way of "auto search" the covers, is there a way to do that on this new version?

[rodan1967]

Did the new Beta lose the display albums with no cover art? I like the new google image search but it would be easier to be able to loacate all the albums that are missing cover art like in the previous version.

[Kirk]

Loving the new Search index and Google Image album art search! Keep up the great work!