Certain items won't play (And a few other questions...)

[Blau Rascon]

Haha, this is probably a really nooby question..

I've got a bunch of WMA files that won't play. I know about the transcoding thing changing wma -> mp3... I'm starting to think that's taking a lot of time and that's why the files won't play.
Seeing as the majority of my music is .wma, what should I do?
All the settings for transcoding are default... like, when I go to Settings -> Transcoding, the only checkboxes that are checked are the Default checkboxes.

Downloaded LAME just now, thinking it'll help, and I... well. I'm completely lost. I don't even think I installed it right.

Haha, I'm really new at this... sorry.


EDIT: More questions haha ._.;
How do I find the link I give to people? Like the http:// ip : port kinda thing.
And does anyone know how to set things up like that with no-ip.com? everything i've seen on there wants me to pay something.

[braddyo]

WMA - I've had problems with those in the past too. Have you downloaded the transcoding pack (available here)? That will install the codecs you need to get going. If you've already done that and it still doesn't work, go into the... can't remember, the help button up at the top I think, and look at the log. You can also find the log in your subsonic directory as subsonic.log. Check that out, it'll tell you how the transcoding process is going.

I used no-ip.com and it worked great. You just need to set up an a-record on your no-ip domain to point to your external IP - go to http://www.whatsmyip.org/ to find out what it is - and be sure to open the correct ports on your router. The default port is 80, so open that to point to your computer running subsonic. If your ISP blocks port 80, just set it up on port 8080. Hope that helps, just ask if you need clarification.

[Blau Rascon]

EDIT: Hoo-rah I figured out what was wrong; I didn't have the wma -> mp3 thing enabled >>;;


I'm pretty sure I got the no-ip thing right now, haha. o-o took a while.
It takes me to my Subsonic login screen. Where do I go from there?
(It just shows up as a network time-out error on my friend's screen...)

[braddyo]

Try pinging your no-ip url from your friends computer (Start, run, cmd, ping [no-ip address]) and see if it shows the IP you get when you go to whatsmyip.org - if it's the same, that means that no-ip is working and you should check on your router or windows firewall settings. If it isn't, then it's a no-ip issue.

[Blau Rascon]

Will do later on, it's kinda late now, haha. Thanks for your help though, I appreciate it
Thing is, there are two IP addresses I get. One is the one that the "What is my IP" websites give you, and that doesn't work. The other is the one my modem gives me that goes to my computer, and that one works, at least, for me. Strange.

[braddyo]

Yes, if you are at your computer, and you use the IP of your computer, Subsonic will work great because when you type in your no-ip address, it resolves the DNS which says something like "192.168.0.x", and your local computer sees that and thinks "oh, that's me" and it works just fine.

When you're at your friends house that IP that no-ip is set up to use doesn't work because your friends computer isn't behind your router. What you need to do is set up port forwarding on your modem/router. Go to http://www.portforward.com/english/rout ... rindex.htm and find your router. Go through the steps to forward internet traffic that hits your router at whatever port you've set subsonic to (port 80 by default) forward to your local computer IP. That way, when anyone, yourself included, types in your no-ip address the DNS will give back your modem's ip (which is the ip returned by whatismyip.org) which will hit your router, and your router will say "hey that needs to go to local IP 192.168.0.x or whatever" and your computer will get it.

At least, that's what I think you need to do to get it to work by making some assumptions about your situation

[Blau Rascon]

I understand somewhat where you're coming from, but the site you gave doesn't seem to have the right version of my router...

This is the one I have to use, but this is what I see for the last step.

[braddyo]

If I'm reading your last screen correctly, find out what your computer IP is (probably 192.168.2.x) and put x in the first text box. Leave protocol at TCP, punch in 80 for lan port and public port, check enable, click set, and see if that gets it going. You may have to reset your router and then change the IP no-ip is using to your public (external) IP.

[Blau Rascon]

mmmk, punched in all the stuff for router forwarding, and the external IP thingy works on my computer now.
though, when i give the no-ip thing (now set to external ip thingy) to my friend, it still gives her the firefox error.

I'm gonna try offering it to a few more friends and seeing if it works for them... how does sharing the URL work? If I give them the URL, what's it supposed to do / take them to when it loads? and do they need Subsonic installed?

[braddyo]

That's interesting - so when you punch in your external IP on your ome computer it works? How about the URL? When you ping it you see your external IP? And when you punch that no-ip URL into your browser you see your subsonic install?

The great thing about subsonic is that they don't need anything installed on their computer besides a browser- as long as they're connected to the web they'll have access.

[Blau Rascon]

When I ping the no-ip url, I get my external IP, yes.

for some reason something's getting weirded...

A few minutes ago I could go to my no-ip address and end up at my subsonic login. Now it won't do that.
I was looking at the IP's for my players on subsonic (the ones under settings -> players; the ip next to the name) and that's showing up as some IP i don't know. There was also a random player I didn't create, but it had my computer's IP address on it. I switched to that, attempted to connect with my no-ip url, and it switched that to the strange IP the others have.

[braddyo]

Hmmm maybe your modem gave your computer a new IP - they usually do every 24 hours or so unless you tell them differently. I'm not familiar with your router, so I can't tell you how, but maybe search online for how to assign your computer a permanent IP from your router. If your router gave you a new IP, the port forwarding will be forwarding to your old IP and not getting to your computer.

[Blau Rascon]

My router has a thingy about dynamic IP's, it lets you choose between static and dynamic....
here's a screenshot of that page:

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with Dynamic selected (as it is when i go to that page; i don't think anything was set up there), when I hit Next, it asks for a host name. I don't know what to put there... (I tried it just now and left it blank; all it really did was log me off of MSN.)
I should probably be doing the PPoE thing since I have a DSL router, but I have no clue what my username/password are and I don't want to glitch my internet (which has happened numerous times already).
If worse comes to worse, I'll tinker with the PPoE thing over the weekend (i have school this week and i need the internet for it).

[braddyo]

WAN means wide-area network. Most people (w/ DSL, cable, etc) have dynamic IPs, so your ISP will give you a new IP once in a while. That's where no-ip comes in handy - they will give you a little program you install on your computer that will update the IP they are sending your traffic to when your ISP changes it.

So, that doesn't have much to do with your LAN (local-area network) ip assignment. Your router has its own little DHCP server to give unique IPs to each of the computers connected to it. You need to find a setting there that will let you add your computer to a list (on my d-link router it's called a DHCP reservation list) so your router doesn't give your computer a new IP.

[Blau Rascon]

Downloaded and installed the no-ip client, check-boxed the thing for my no-ip address, and it still refuses to load when I type it in. subsonic's localhost thing won't work anymore, either.

So far on my router, I see a page that shows me all the computers communicating with the router (DHCP client list, I think it's called), but I don't see any lists.
I do see though, a thing that says this:
"The DHCP server function makes setting up a network very easy by assigning IP addresses to each computer on the network. The DHCP Server can be turned off if necessary. Turning off the DHCP server will require you to manually set a Static IP address in each computer on your network. The IP pool is the range of IP addresses set aside for dynamic assignment to the computers on your network. The default is 2-100 (99 computers) if you want to change this number, you can by entering a new starting and ending IP address and clicking on "Apply Changes"."

That could possibly be why my computer has two IP addresses going to it (one from router, one from external). Should I try turning that off?