Sneak peek at itunes based subsonic web UI

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Postby kermit22 » Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:34 pm

Thanks for the update. I'll download it and give it a run through
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Postby mattgoldspink » Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:18 am

Hi all,

I don't want to spam you with new releases every other day, but I figured I had enough decent features done in the last few days to drop a new release. This version now has:

  • Random play
  • Loop modes (single track/all)
  • Create new playists
  • Rename existing playlists
  • Update playlists by dragging and dropping one or more tracks from the grid views on to the playlist in the tree


Please give it a go and let me know what you think. At the moment there's no way to delete tracks in the playlist, I'll look to do that in a subsequent release. Let me know if there's other features you'd like to see for the desktop version, the next release will have updates for the ipad version and also a proper installer for most types of subsonic installs.

Download link: http://code.google.com/p/subtunes/downloads/detail?name=subtunes-0.9.3.zip

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Postby stueyboy » Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:40 pm

Hi Matt

Your interface is pretty awesome so thanks loads for doing all this work!!

I have a slight issue that may be related to how I get subsonic to index my music; I have separate folders for various sections of my music collection, so I have a legacy iTunes folder then one for each year from 2007 onwards. Subsonic allows you to brows all music or just one of those folders which is a feature I really like.

In your subtunes UI, I see each subfolder listed along the left but when I click on them, it is browsing the entire collection instead of just that section of my library. Do you think this is a consequence of how I arrange my library or something else?

It really does look nice and functions really well
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Postby mattgoldspink » Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:10 pm

@stueyboy

Thanks for the feedback.

The way the grid works is it recursively gets all tracks from all sub directories based on the current folder you clicked in the tree. Does that sound like the behaviour you're seeing? If not could you give me a better idea of how you folders are structured and what you expect to see (do you use symlinks or anything like that?)

If needs be I can add setting to disable the recursive calls to get all tracks and just have an icon in the grid for rows that are directories and you double click to navigate into them (or not even show them at all and just show music tracks in that folder - I'm open to suggestions for whatever people think would work best for them)

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Postby stueyboy » Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:59 pm

mattgoldspink wrote:The way the grid works is it recursively gets all tracks from all sub directories based on the current folder you clicked in the tree. Does that sound like the behaviour you're seeing? If not could you give me a better idea of how you folders are structured and what you expect to see (do you use symlinks or anything like that?)



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This is how I present the library structure in Subsonic. I tend to rely on the search facility to find specifics so I'm never bothered too much about browsing by name etc. At present, Music 2011 only has 3 albums in it but when I click on it in subtunes UI I am seeing the whole lot. The Music folder has nothing but sub-folders in it.

I'm not sure if what you described is happening or not but thought the pic might help
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Postby lprager@compup.com » Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:39 pm

Hi Matt,

Your interface looks great. Easy to understand. I think you have a winner here.

I installed 0.9.3 with 4.3 beta. Here are a few issues I am seeing:

On Chrome:

- I can create a new playlist (click +). I get a Note icon but can't do anything with it.
- I can't drag and drop anything to a playlist. The cursor hovers between the playlists, not on them.

On Firefox:
- New playlist works fine
- I can add first track to the new list, then no more.
- Does not show the current song playing in header if I've been working on lists.

Hope this helps.

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Postby GJ51 » Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:45 pm

I'd be careful about the structure and approach for storage. I helped one user not too long ago that had a pretty complicated file structure and was having lots of problems. I pointed out that I was thinking that Windows, at least, had a limit of 255 characters for the total directory filename size. It's also possible that SS itself has a limit on how long a string it can handle for file location/name.

We then simplified his storage scheme and all his problems went away. On my system I use a seperate drive for all my media storage, so I point the SS folders to F:\Music which has subfolders by artist/album/track. If I were going to store and seperate by year I would use a seperate entry for each year, ie F\Music\20XX\Artist\track. in the Subsonic settings.

I would be carefull about getting too deeply nested in a complex file storage structure. At some point there is a limit either in the OS or the program that will cause problems.
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Postby stueyboy » Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:52 pm

GJ51 wrote:I would be carefull about getting too deeply nested in a complex file storage structure. At some point there is a limit either in the OS or the program that will cause problems.


That might be an issue. To be honest, it all works fine with the standard SS interface so I'm pretty happy. I just wondered if there was maybe a glitch in the subtunes interface and it was just me that organised my music this way.

My music is stored on a Fedora install running Amahi home server, so the /var/hda/files/music folder is where the DLNA and daap servers both look for the music so it's kind of fixed. SS server runs as a seperate service and just looks at the same locations.

I've got an XP based install in the office for the guys there so might try subtunes on it as it has the music in C:/Music

Saying all that, I think this interface is excellent and the fact that someone is doing this for nothing is amazing.
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Postby stueyboy » Thu Jan 06, 2011 3:25 pm

Just wanted to add another thing I have noticed.

After using the subtunes UI, I find that the player progress bar is missing in the standard SS UI. To get it back, select a different player from the drop down and then re-select the one you wanted. For instance, I have one for listening at home & office with different max bandwidth settings.
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Postby nickles » Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:21 am

Hi,
Thanks for developing this interface. It looks really awesome.

Unfortunately, I'm encountering a problem launching this site. I have subsonic loaded at http//mydomain.com:8080 and I'm launching subtunes from http://mydomain.com:8080/subtunes. I can't get past the window prompting me to enter the path to my subsonic server despite entering http://mydomain.com:8080.

Do you have any suggestions on fixing this?
Thanks.
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Postby stueyboy » Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:36 pm

nickles wrote:Hi,
Thanks for developing this interface. It looks really awesome.

Unfortunately, I'm encountering a problem launching this site. I have subsonic loaded at http//mydomain.com:8080 and I'm launching subtunes from http://mydomain.com:8080/subtunes. I can't get past the window prompting me to enter the path to my subsonic server despite entering http://mydomain.com:8080.

Do you have any suggestions on fixing this?
Thanks.


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Postby nickles » Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:16 pm

stueyboy wrote:
nickles wrote:Hi,
Thanks for developing this interface. It looks really awesome.

Unfortunately, I'm encountering a problem launching this site. I have subsonic loaded at http//mydomain.com:8080 and I'm launching subtunes from http://mydomain.com:8080/subtunes. I can't get past the window prompting me to enter the path to my subsonic server despite entering http://mydomain.com:8080.

Do you have any suggestions on fixing this?
Thanks.


Try another / on the end


I tried that before posting. It didn't work... :(
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Postby liquiddiet » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:25 pm

Is there instructions on how to install subtunes?

I have subsonic installed on C:\subsonic

and created a directory C:\\Subsonic\jetty\1913\webapp\subtunes

and extracted subtunes-0.9.3.zip into it.

If i open http://localhost/ subsonic opens

I have tried http://localhost/subtunes/

and receive:

Code: Select all
HTTP ERROR: 404

NOT_FOUND

RequestURI=/subtunes/

Powered by Jetty://


I even tired:
http://localhost:4040/subtunes/

even though subsonic is running on port 80.

ideas? advice?
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Postby mattgoldspink » Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:26 pm

HI all,
Sorry for the delay in replying for some reason I stopped getting notifications of updates to the thread:

@lprager@compup.com
I suspect this is because I was working around a bug in the playlist api in 4.2 which I reported to Sindre and he's since fixed. I'll take a look to get it working on 4.3 now it's released

@stueyboy

Is there anyway you could set me up a temporary account on your server so I could see what's going on? If that's possible just PM me the details and I'll take a look. As for the player issue back in the proper subsonic disappearing, I've seen this but I've not had time to figure out what's going on. I've added an issue to remind me to look into it: http://code.google.com/p/subtunes/issues/detail?id=52

@nickles @liquiddiet
What happens if you hit http://mydomain.com:8080/subtunes/index.html? (@liquiddiet try http://localhost/subtunes/index.html in your case) I'm wondering if the server doesn't automatically redirect to index.html for you.
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Postby nickles » Sun Jan 16, 2011 11:32 pm

mattgoldspink wrote:HI all,
Sorry for the delay in replying for some reason I stopped getting notifications of updates to the thread:

@lprager@compup.com
I suspect this is because I was working around a bug in the playlist api in 4.2 which I reported to Sindre and he's since fixed. I'll take a look to get it working on 4.3 now it's released

@stueyboy

Is there anyway you could set me up a temporary account on your server so I could see what's going on? If that's possible just PM me the details and I'll take a look. As for the player issue back in the proper subsonic disappearing, I've seen this but I've not had time to figure out what's going on. I've added an issue to remind me to look into it: http://code.google.com/p/subtunes/issues/detail?id=52

@nickles @liquiddiet
What happens if you hit http://mydomain.com:8080/subtunes/index.html? (@liquiddiet try http://localhost/subtunes/index.html in your case) I'm wondering if the server doesn't automatically redirect to index.html for you.


Hi,
I realized just now that I was not on 4.3. I updated and found that things are working swimmingly now. You've made an awesome interface for subsonic. Thanks a lot!
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