MiniSub - Subsonic HTML5 Web App (Archive)

[kayvee]

Was also getting the blank screen until I added a / at the end of the url after the port number then all seemed to work fine.

/ added where? In the MiniSub app? Can you please explain?

[yochaigal]

Yup, a trailing slash helped.
For future reference, the URL I used was:
http://xxx.dyndns.org:4040/

[kayvee]

Okay, I finally got it to work - sort of.
In the MiniSub settings page, I was entering my server address as: xxx.subsonic.org Instead, I tried https://xxx.dyndns.org:1234/ and that worked. I see the albums/tracks populated. But the problem is that tracks refuse to play in Firefox on my Mac. Every time I try to play, Firefox crashes. This may be unrelated to MiniSub though because I notice the exact same behavior when I try to listen to tracks using the regular subsonic web interface on Mac Firefox.
On Safari, MiniSub works as expected. The tracks/albums list is displayed and I am able to select and play tracks. The problem here is that of the track lengths. As reported in the previous posts, I too see the NaN:NaN/00:00 for track length.

[tsquillario]

Okay, I finally got it to work - sort of.
In the MiniSub settings page, I was entering my server address as: xxx.subsonic.org Instead, I tried https://xxx.dyndns.org:1234/ and that worked. I see the albums/tracks populated. But the problem is that tracks refuse to play in Firefox on my Mac. Every time I try to play, Firefox crashes. This may be unrelated to MiniSub though because I notice the exact same behavior when I try to listen to tracks using the regular subsonic web interface on Mac Firefox.
On Safari, MiniSub works as expected. The tracks/albums list is displayed and I am able to select and play tracks. The problem here is that of the track lengths. As reported in the previous posts, I too see the NaN:NaN/00:00 for track length.

Have you tried using Chrome? Also it looks like your using https, you might run into issues with the Chrome App and a self signed certificate. You need to go to the main Subsonic interface and accept the certificate first.

[NLclothing]

Any chance we could see a darker contrast theme?

I love what you've done, with the exception of subsonic settings and other edit features (like tags/metadata) I am using your version of subsonic almost exclusively!

[tsquillario]

Just pushed a new release:

9/29/2012 - 2.0.7
Updated to SoundManager2 v297a-20120916
Implemented updatePlaylist API method. Allows for larger playlists.
Added support for Podcasts (Thanks to nithinphilips)
Added Genre support for Auto Playlists (Thanks to Concept211 & orangepeelbeef)

[tsquillario]

Any chance we could see a darker contrast theme?

I love what you've done, with the exception of subsonic settings and other edit features (like tags/metadata) I am using your version of subsonic almost exclusively!

Yea, I would like to make a darker version most def. Soon my friend....

[grumpwagon]

Not that I don't trust you, but what is the new permission for?

[tsquillario]

Not that I don't trust you, but what is the new permission for?

Apparently having this "http://*/" in the permissions of my manifest.json gives you that warning now. I don't even remember what that is for, removed it. Just pushed 2.0.8

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/permission_warnings.html

If it breaks let me know.

[grumpwagon]

Seems to work just fine, thanks for the update!

On a different subject, it seems like you scrape the auto albums from Subsonic, correct? I'd love a previous/next page option, if that's possible. I've just turned up the number of albums for now, and that's worked fine.

Secondly, If I'm wrong about that and you don't scrape them directly, would it be possible to filter out albums based on the folder they're in? I'd like to be able to select random from a specific folder.

[tsquillario]

Seems to work just fine, thanks for the update!

On a different subject, it seems like you scrape the auto albums from Subsonic, correct? I'd love a previous/next page option, if that's possible. I've just turned up the number of albums for now, and that's worked fine.

Secondly, If I'm wrong about that and you don't scrape them directly, would it be possible to filter out albums based on the folder they're in? I'd like to be able to select random from a specific folder.

I don't think scrape is the right word to describe it. I use the getRandomSongs method from the Subsonic API http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp

It only supports the "top-level music folders". That's what the Folder Playlists come from...

[tsquillario]

Just pushed another update.

9/30/2012 - 2.0.9
Added Dark Theme
Fixed issue with track duration display

9/30/2012 - 2.0.8
Removed "http://*/" permission from manifest.json (This was what caused the permissions alert)

[Slate8]

New MiniSub user here. Just wanted to say I am liking MiniSub big lots, so thanks
I know it has been mentioned earlier in this thread, but has there been any progress with Jukebox mode support?

Thanks, and keep up the good work. It's appreciated.

[tsquillario]

New MiniSub user here. Just wanted to say I am liking MiniSub big lots, so thanks
I know it has been mentioned earlier in this thread, but has there been any progress with Jukebox mode support?

Thanks, and keep up the good work. It's appreciated.

These are the controls provided by the Subsonic API for Jukebox mode.
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp#jukeboxControl

Tell me how you use the Jukebox mode so I can better understand it. I don't use it.

[Slate8]

New MiniSub user here. Just wanted to say I am liking MiniSub big lots, so thanks
I know it has been mentioned earlier in this thread, but has there been any progress with Jukebox mode support?

Thanks, and keep up the good work. It's appreciated.

These are the controls provided by the Subsonic API for Jukebox mode.
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp#jukeboxControl

Tell me how you use the Jukebox mode so I can better understand it. I don't use it.

From a user's point of view, you use jukebox mode in exactly the same way as you would the local playback mode that you currently have. The only difference is there would be a tickbox or similar on the player to dictate if music should be played from your local PCs speakers or from the Subsonic server's audo hardware. I think the current playlist will switch depending on if you are in jukebox mode or not, so one playlist for what you have queued on the jukebox, and one for local, but I might be wrong.

I've had a read of the API docs and am having a poke around with the Firefox RestClient extension so will try and get the procedure down. I'd love to say I'll get a pull request over to you, but I just know I won't have the time due to a young family & hectic job keeping me busy. I'll get the process down for the jukebox API though and document my findings here in the hope that it helps any future development.

Thanks