Play music in webbrowser without logon

[alfenkillz]

Hi,

is there any way to get rid of the Logon screen, so people can play music directly in their web browser without having to logon.

but only play music, not change any settings?

Any help would be appreciated.

[ytechie]

There is a way. It requires you to change the login.jsp file.

First, you'll want to create a user that isn't able to edit settings or password.
Make sure all of your settings are as you want them because they will be hard to change once you enable the auto-login.

Locate the login.jsp file, and add this function:

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function init() {
      document.getElementById('j_username').value = "guestUserHere";
      document.getElementById('j_password').value = "guestPasswordHere";
      document.getElementById('submit').click();
   }

Next you have to add "id="j_password"" to the password field, and "id="submit"" to the submit button.

The final step is to change the onload= in the body tag to "onload="init()" and save the file.

Every user will automatically be logged in as the user you specified, and to make changes at a later time, you will want to simply comment the last line of the function we added, make your changes, and uncomment the line.

Hope this helps!

[alfenkillz]

Hi,

Thanks alot, it was very effective!

=)

[bluetooth]

Perhaps an easier method is to just put the username and password in the url shortcut
http://yourhost/subsonic/login.view?use ... word=guest
Just replace whatever username / password you like, make sure the guest has the privileges you want and there you go.

[ytechie]

Perhaps an easier method is to just put the username and password in the url shortcut
http://yourhost/subsonic/login.view?use ... word=guest
Just replace whatever username / password you like, make sure the guest has the privileges you want and there you go.

But that means you have to set the url to include all the information.

With the method I provided, the root url logs in without any user interaction, and the url does not need to be modified.

[bluetooth]

Always good to have a choice.

[ytechie]

Always good to have a choice.

Absolutely! Thanks for showing us the other way to do an auto login.

With the more complicated way, you can hand out the url (http://[subsonic]) and the user is logged in!
No need to set up a bookmark containing the login info.

[chugmonkey]

With the method I provided, the root url logs in without any user interaction, and the url does not need to be modified.

Interesting method ytechie. I would suggest that modifying Sindre's code for stuff like this is actually not the best way to go about making life easier for public login. In this case, I think you would be better off rewriting the URL using the application configuration for whichever J2EE server you're using, perhaps by using J2EE UrlRewriteFilter. This would enable you to have a URL for sharing like http://subsonic/free_pass which wouldn't need amending in the next SS release.

If you would like step by step guidance on implementing this, please let me know.

Cheers

[ytechie]

I don't think that would be easier at all. Not for what the OP wanted. Either way, can you post your method so I can check it out for future use?

[chugmonkey]

can you post your method so I can check it out for future use?

Absolutely - I'll draw it up this weekend. It can also be done in Apache, arguably much more easily. Is there anywhere we can see some stats on what server setup people have got?

[ytechie]

Yea. Take a look: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7147.

Thanks for the info! (In the future.) I would love to know how to make separate urls for different things. I'm guessing it's the same concept as what the /share/[random] does?