MusicCabinet - artist radio, genre radio & related artists

[hakko]

Many people use the solution of having separate copies of all music: one for seeding torrents and one for your actual library (where you can then use an external tool like beets to clean up all tags).

I haven't spent so much time transcoding but it "should" work, I've seen other people using MusicCabinet doing it. So I guess it's a matter of finding a working ffmpeg/lame, making sure the user running the Subsonic process has execute rights etc. The subsonic.log file should give quite a lot of info on what's going on.

[hakko]

I've tested it with iSub to browse my library, play music, list recently added albums etc and it has been working just fine. Not sure about the search function though. Can you explain in more detail how the browsing does not work?

To verify, you could also start a browser and surf to host:port/rest/getIndexes.view?u=admin&p=admin&c=ff&v=1.7.0

Exchange "host:port" with your own domain, and admin with your own username/password. (u=user, p=password)

[orangepeelbeef]

Seems like a neat mod, but it completely screws up the search folder ui on the android app.

Also, it doesn't display ANY of the video files. I use subsonic for video streaming too, and your mod seems to break it. (at least for the android app) The search index contains no video files only audio ones. Selecting a different folder in the android app ui, shows the same data no matter which folder i select.

[hakko]

Sounds like I have to look into the app search function! I was re-making it for the Subsonic server so it probably needs an overhaul.

I listen to music a lot, but I never ever stream videos. So I left the ability to access videos from the Subsonic server (although clunky via the file-based browsing), but I didn't even consider it for the apps. It's harder for them as they have a more limited interface. There are a few workaround I can think of but they'll all come out a bit weird and non-intuitive.

I think that if you use video streaming a lot, this is probably not the mod you want to use. It's much more likely that I'll add new ways of generating playlists, finding new music, searching for similarities between artists etc than that I'll even start working on videos. This is just the music server I'm making for myself, and which I figured I might as well share with the rest of the world. Maybe I need to make that more clear, sorry for false adverts.

[vollbr0t]

When using the checkboxes to select some songs from the current playlist (lower frame), the automatic-refresh of the playlist-frame deselects all checked songs. Since the refresh-timer is pretty fast, it is rarely possible to check more than 5 songs and perform any action with those.

[Caleb]

Great Mod, thanks for your wonderful work!

One question though: what do I need to do in case there's a new subsonic version? (I'm using 4.7beta3 right now and obviously planning to install the final). Do I need to reinstall the mod after installing the new subsonic?

[hakko]

Thanks! This mod is complete replacement for the normal Subsonic server. So if you're using it, you're not really using Subsonic 4.7 beta3 anymore. I've incorporated some features from 4.7 (like the starring) into MusicCabinet, and left out others (like the playlist import).

This project is completely about creating a more advanced streaming music server for people with large music libraries, while Sindre seems more into video streaming right now. So I'd say that MusicCabinet and Subsonic are moving in different directions, and you just have to make a decision which one fits your needs best based on the different functionality they offer.

[hakko]

Regarding integrating more Last.FM data and functionality - I would LOVE to have the ability to select and play Last.FM (user) group radio in MusicCabinet much like we can now play genre radio. They have some really amazing group radio stations available like Brainwashed, The Real Dark Ambient Group, Cold Meat Industry, etc.

@Hakko - Would such a thing be possible?

I'm happy to announce that Last.fm groups are now integrated into MusicCabinet/Subsonic. See viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9777&p=45742#p45742. To use it, go to Settings -> MusicCabinet -> Group settings, and add "Brainwashed" or some other group of your taste. Head over to Genres, and it should be displayed below your genre cloud. If it doesn't, go have a coffee, and come back and press Genres again, last.fm might just be slow.

Also, searching has been fixed for mobile clients (works on my iSub at least).

[hakko]

When using the checkboxes to select some songs from the current playlist (lower frame), the automatic-refresh of the playlist-frame deselects all checked songs. Since the refresh-timer is pretty fast, it is rarely possible to check more than 5 songs and perform any action with those.

This must be the case for a normal Subsonic installation too, right? I totally agree that it's broken but I think Sindre should fix it. : )

[maxxh]

This mod looks really interesting, just wanted it to try, but

Is there any configuration setting to specify the PostgreSQL user and database name?

I really don't want to use the default 'postgres' Superuser for MusicCabinet (from a security perspective).

[hakko]

There's no setting for that, but it should be possible to to edit the subsonic.war file (it's just a .zip file actually). Look for the file applicationContext-service.xml. The database connection details are specified here: https://github.com/hakko/subsonic/blob/ ... e.xml#L237

It should also be possible to run the subsonic.sh script with extra parameters to achieve this, like java -Dmusiccabinet.jdbc.username=USERNAME -Dmusiccabinet.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/DATABASENAME (but I haven't tried).

postgres should be set up as a user with very low privileges, though. No connections to the database are allowed from the outside world unless you explicitly allow it.

[maxxh]

Thanks hakko, -Dmusiccabinet.jdbc.username=USERNAME works.

I had to make 2 small changes in the code though:
1) username is hardcoded here.
I changed it to ds.getUser()

2) musiccabinet-server/src/main/resources/sql/setup/1026.sql: create extension if not exists pg_trgm; (added if not exists)

It would be nice if you could add these changes to your git.


In case anyone else needs the steps to use a dedicated user to connect to the postgresql server (Ubuntu Linux):

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apt-get install postgresql-contrib
su postgres
  createuser --no-superuser --no-createdb --no-createrole --pwprompt subsonic
  createdb --owner=subsonic musiccabinet
  psql -d musiccabinet
    create extension pg_trgm;
subsonic.sh: add -Dmusiccabinet.jdbc.username=subsonic \


[hakko]

Nice! Sorry you had to get your hands dirty working with the code, although it seems it was a no-brainer for you. I'll add those two changes!

Let me know if you run into any other issues or find other optimizations.

[maxxh]

Media scanning just finished, the last.fm integration is awesome -- thanks again.

Another small bug: Log out button ignores --context-path.
change link to href="j_spring_security_logout" here.


Do you plan to port the Subsonic 4.7 playlist feature into MusicCabinet?
Proper playlist support is the only thing i am missing right now.

[hakko]

This is so convenient, I don't even have to code anymore!

I'm not really aware of what Sindre has done since 4.6, other than that playlists has been moved from .m3u files into being stored in the database. And that made a lot of people upset on the forum. What feature are you looking for, more specifically? Having playlists appear in the left frame? Has Sindre done any other improvements to them?

In general, I think that the current <frame>+<table>-based UI is old and outdated and I'm hoping for a makeover from scratch. Plus I'm more of a back-end developer than a designer so I rarely make big UI changes just for fun. But I'm of course open for ideas, even though there's no such change in the pipeline.