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Postby imasterxx » Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:52 am

Hello.

I'm running Windows 7 with Subsonic and I'm trying to stream music to my android phone. I have the Sonic server configured (and tested connectivity "Connection is OK. Server unlicensed" from my android - well within the trial limit). User is configured to play files and all that good stuff. And I can see all my music when I log into the server via Firefox (all the music is listed on the left). But for some reason I can't see any music on my phone. I keep thinking I missed something and continue to look through all the menus and settings but for the life of me I can't figure out what is wrong. Note: All my music is in a single folder (not sure if this is an issue). I skimmed through the tutorial but didn't see anything pertaining to my problem. I have about 2100 songs in the folder. I don't believe router settings are an issue because I've tested connectivity (successfully) from the phone. I'm stumped. Any help is appreciated.

Oh, And I've already tried the Update search index a couple times.

Update: I still can't see anything in my music library (on the phone), but when I search for part of a song I do see it come up. Sometimes it plays and sometimes it doesn't when I click on it (I think that's a different issue all together). But its strange that I can search for a song but I don't see it in the main library section. Shouldn't I be able to see all my songs I have in the folder in that library? When I click on Shuffle Play from the home screen it doesn't shuffle all my songs. Instead it seems like it only shuffles the ones that I searched for already.

Thanks.
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Postby GJ51 » Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:09 am

All the music in one folder is the problem. Subsonic organizes the music best when it's organized into X:\Music\Artist\Album\tracks folders. Create a new folder and place an Album in it to see if it fixes the problem. You can still maintain your current format, just create a new folder within the current folder and move the music down one level. I have many single tracks stored this way, i.e. X:\music\singles\tracks.

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Postby -Airwave- » Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:31 am

quick way

install itunes, add music, consolidate library, point ss to the itunes folder in your music folder
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Postby imasterxx » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:21 am

I'll give it a shot. Thx
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Postby fdullemond » Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:19 pm

Note: All my music is in a single folder (not sure if this is an issue).


Well, that is exactly the problem.....

The android client only shows files in a subdirectory under the music root...
Just move all (or a couple) files into a subdirectory directly under your music root directory and they will pop up in android...
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Postby imasterxx » Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:41 pm

yea that fixed it. i guess i didn't think it would be an issue to have everything in the root directory (especially since it all came up in the web console) but its no big deal.

thanks all!
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