Original Subsonic Playlists

[norcalscott]

Just installed MusicCabinet, and it appears that my original Subsonic playlists are gone. I know that MusicCabinet can automatically create playlists, and that is good, but I had a few playlists that I have been building for years. I do have backups for them, and also backed up Subsonic settings prior to the installation of MusicCabinet, but I am wondering if the loss of my existing playlists is expected?

Is there a way to import these into new MusicCabinet playlists?

Thanks

[hakko]

MusicCabinet is built on top of Subsonic 4.6, and handles playlist that way (i.e, as .m3u files). Are you referring to playlists created within Subsonic 4.7? Those would have to be exported to .m3u format to be readable.

[norcalscott]

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, in Subsonic, in the upper left hand pane, there would be a list of my existing playlists. After installing MusicCabinet, this is no longer there. I can now import the backed up (not a fresh backup, unfortunately) .m3u files and they load fine. I did have to create the folder C:/playlists and copy the backed-up .m3u files into that folder to get MusicCabinet to see them. (I am running Windows 7 64-bit)

I guess this operation is OK, but I wish I had known that installing MusicCabinet would blow my existing playlists away, I would have done a fresh backup of them prior to the install - maybe something to note in the installation instructions.

[norcalscott]

Found another issue when managing these playlists from DSub - If I long press a song and choose "add to playlist", then select the playlist from the server, I get a
"ServerTooOldException" error.

Any idea if this is an issue with DSub or something with MusicCabinet?

I've confirmed this on two different Android devices, both running Jelly Bean and the latest version of DSub.

[hakko]

That's also because MusicCabinet uses the playlist management system from Subsonic 4.6. Sindre introduced some news for playlists in 4.7 (keeping them in the internal database instead of saving them in a readable format on disk) but I haven't walked down that road. DSub correctly recognizes MusicCabinet as a Subsonic 4.6 server and therefore cannot update playlists.

http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp#updatePlaylist

[norcalscott]

Hi Hakko,

Thanks for your replies in this thread. Just to clarify - are you saying that DSub cannot manage playlists at all in MusicCabinet, or would it be possible for me to downgrade to 4.6 in order to get this to work?

I am also finding that I cannot make changes to playlists from within MusicCabinet via the browser interface.

I guess what I am asking is there anything I can do (downgrades, etc.) in order to make these playlists work in MusicCabinet?

For me, MusicCabinet is sheer genius. The only thing missing for me is the ability to add songs to existing playlists (either via DSub or the web interface). If I could find a way to make that work, it would be the perfect solution for me.

[hakko]

Just to clarify - are you saying that DSub cannot manage playlists at all in MusicCabinet

That's what I'm saying.

or would it be possible for me to downgrade to 4.6 in order to get this to work?

No. It doesn't matter what version of Subsonic you run before installing MusicCabinet. MC completely overwrites your previous install (only keeps users and their settings). DSub uses some functionality from Subsonic 4.7 that MusicCabinet has never supported.

I am also finding that I cannot make changes to playlists from within MusicCabinet via the browser interface.

I guess what I am asking is there anything I can do (downgrades, etc.) in order to make these playlists work in MusicCabinet?

The only thing you can do is write code that makes it work. No-one has done that yet afaik.

For the web interface, I guess you can load a certain playlist, add files to it, and then save it overwriting the previous .m3u file.