New to subsonic .. is this a replacement or just new UI

[igbar]

I have just found Subsonic and am trying it out. So far it seems to be nice and there is an app for andoroid so can use on the road.

But I have just seen MusicCabinet in the forum and wonder if it is a replacement for Subsonic or an add on. In looking at the installation it appears that you are using Postgres database .. where it appears that Subsonic is more a 'read directories on demand' type of system.

So .. just trying to get a handle on this. Can anyone take a few minutes to explain .. or point me to a page somewhere that discusses the pros/cons of both.

Thanks a log
Igbar

[hakko]

I guess you've read this thread: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10587 ?

Subsonic 4.6 was "read directories on demand". Subsonic 4.7 is different, it scans your directories in advance to speed up browsing (but your library has to be scanned before newly added files appear in the interface).

MusicCabinet works more like 4.7, although meta-data is stored in a PostgreSQL database instead of the HSQL database that's used in Subsonic 4.7. The reason for this is reliability and feature set - there have been many reports on the forum of HSQL databases going corrupt, and also of directories not being properly updated in Subsonic 4.7 even after scanning. I don't believe that these bugs exist in MusicCabinet.

MusicCabinet is a replacement for Subsonic, but it strives to be backward compatible. That means that you can still use your Android app. But as a bonus, you'll be able to browse your artists by genre, generate playlists based on a genre or an artist, browse related artists etc. Both in the web interface and in the app.

I'm obviously biased as I wrote most of MusicCabinet, so feel free to discuss pros/cons!

[igbar]

hakko, Thanks for the quick post.

As this is actually on the Subsonic Forum I can only assume that the MusicCabinet has the blessing of the Subsonic author .. so that must be good.

I have some q's on Subsonic but will give MusicCabinet a try to see if some of these are answered. I especially like the idea that the client still works. Speaking of the client .. do you know if there is any updating being done on that interface. I have something like 151K songs across 10952 artists and 10,100 cds. So possibly better ways to search on the phone/tablet would be nice.

Once again, thanks so much for the quick response. I'll give it a try

have a great weekend
Igbar

[hakko]

I believe that the currently most active project for the Android app is DSub, which is also based on the original code by Sindre and then modified: viewforum.php?f=16

Regards