Getting started

[elchafa]

Hello, I downloaded Subsonic and think the idea is great. however, I have no clue as to how to use it. (NO CLUE AT ALL )

I would like some help on that, please!

elchafa.-

[regnowsin]

Seriously. Any help? Maybe a how to? Something? Or am I just missing it?

[sindre_mehus]

Please start here: http://subsonic.sourceforge.net/installation.php

[regnowsin]

I've made it that far. I guess I just don't understand what to do from there.

[mojoxojom]

well i just tried out subsonic last night and i made pretty good progress. i went with the "WAR" file option on installation. I already have apache2 running on that box, and installed tomcat5.5, the java virtual machine for the server. it is set up to run on port 8180 by default on ubuntu server (installed from the ubuntu repositories). once tomcat is installed, i opened port 8180 on the firewall, modified it's config to disable tomcat security as instructed on a howto i followed (here: http://onlyubuntu.blogspot.com/2008/09/ ... hardy.html ), created the subsonic directory under /var and changed the ownership for the tomcat55 user. i also downloaded subsonic-3.4 and unzipped it, placing the subsonic.war file (the web archive - the site in a bundle, very nice) in the /var/lib/tomcat55/webapps directory. AT FIRST it didn't want to run because the subversion.war file was not accessible to tomcat. i don't think the howto mentioned that. but i changed the owner of the subversion.war to tomcat55:nogroup and it works now.

caveat: i am having a problem with tomcat crashing and can't figure out why... but i can repeat it ad nauseum... i am on 3.4 so i tried 3.5 but got errors.. that is why i am here on the forums, to work that out. but other than that it looks really nice. i have managed to stream transcoded music already... had to install several programs on the server (flac, vorbis-tools, faad, lame, etc) but it was not hard to do since they're all in the repos already.

so for my system i access http://myserveripaddress:8180/subsonic from my browser

remember, you install tomcat over apache2 then you install the subsonic.war file in tomcat's webapps dir and that's the gist of it.

good luck

[mojoxojom]

hey for you guys above, maybe you should post some more info on your set-up (windows, linux, whatever), how far you got with the steps on whatever instructions you followed (and a linky), and what your errors were or results were from what steps... you know, more info if you expect someone to be able to help. not that i am your man but you know if someone can help you more details are always a good idea. just suggesting...

peace

[mojoxojom]

my problem with tomcat 5.5 crashing happened when i tried to go two levels into my music archive... i have folders like A B C already so under A on the left you would see "A"... click on that and you'll get all my A artists. in the main pane. Fine. But tomcat crashed at this point, i can tell by checking with

ps aux |grep tomcat

and i see only my grep command line, no other processes ... tomcat screwed the pooch and left no log i can find.

well i went ahead and installed openjdk-6-jre and -jdk and set all my java related alternatives with

sudo update-alternatives --all

and pressed enter to leave the settings as they were for most the alternatives but selecting the openjdk-6 java stuff wherever appropriate.

After this I can navigate thru my artists to the albums and tracks no problem. crossing my fingers that this was my last hurdle!!!

be well!

[mojoxojom]

well putting the openjkd-6 stuff on also makes the subsonic 3.5 .war work for me as well!! hurray i think it's all working great, so far, at this early hour.

thanks to the devs! i am running this concurrent with ampache ( http://ampache.org/ ) to see which we like better. So far I think subsonic is a bit more intuitive and prettier, and i really like the embedded flash player being on the same page. you can detach it, too... but on ampache so far i can only get it to be a separate tab/window using the jwmedia player, though some have tried to hack it onto the front page.

anyways this is cool and i am appreciative.

kudos!

[slepton]

I've downloaded and installed the iphone app and the desktop app.

Where do I go from here?

It doesn't say anywhere in the app store that I have to set up another account to use this?

Is this as easy as running OSX app and the iphone app then they'll sync automatically?

[oeh]

I've downloaded and installed the iphone app and the desktop app.

Where do I go from here?

It doesn't say anywhere in the app store that I have to set up another account to use this?

Is this as easy as running OSX app and the iphone app then they'll sync automatically?

Read this!
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/documentation.jsp