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Postby MonkeyJamboree » Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:42 pm

Hey guys! I am having a few odd issues that I was wondering if you could help me out with... Here's a bit of background into my setup: I have Subsonic installed as the WAR version via Tomcat using Apache on Windows 8. My firewalls both in Windows and the router are set up appropriately, and I CAN access the server and play music. However, occasionally I will have an odd occurrence in certain songs where there's a "skip" via Subsonic that's not in the original file. I'm not entirely sure what's causing this, but it has caused some songs to stop playing completely as a result, sometimes freezing the app up completely. I also have the occasional song (in an album ripped all at the same time) that refuses to play at all, and occasional issues with FLAC files buffering but never playing... This all happens on the Android app, via Web player (in a browser like Chrome or Firefox), etc. Versions are all completely up to date as well: WAR version is 4.7, and I'm on the latest Google Play app.

Until recently, I could not play ANY FLAC files at all, but figured out the issue was that I did not have ffmpeg in the subsonic/transcode/ folder. That is now fixed, but the other issues are still present (and have been issues for quite some time now). I was just too lazy to make a post or search for info until now heh... getting some new phones soon (probably windows 8) and want this all working right since I am sadly losing my unlimited data plan. :( Stupid Verizon. Anyway...

I have my settings as unlimited bitrate (because I really just want to stream the files without transcoding and play them wherever I go), but is Subsonic still doing a null transcode in the background? Could this be causing my issues?

The only problems within the subsonic.log file are ones where java basically goes nuts with exceptions. Maybe my java version is incompatible?

Any of you guys have any other ideas what the issue might be?
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Re: General playback issues

Postby joelli007 » Thu Mar 28, 2013 12:00 pm

Dear all,

I also have playback issues using the android app.
What happens is that a song starts to play, after several seconds I see that the song is buffered, then a few seconds later the song stops to play and then restarts from beginning. I have seen this re-start up to 3 times per song. Always on the first song of a playlist. Rarely on the second song of the playlist.
I already have updated the Java machine on my WHS2003 machine. I use the latest subsonic server software.
The issue happens "every time" when I play something that is not yet buffered.
It happens on both of our "LG P880 X4 HD". Already tried to re-install. I have the latest available firmware on my LG.
People using Samsung phones don't seem to have this issue hooking on my subsonic server. Using subsonic from PC on any tested browser works properly.

Has anybody an idea how to solve that android playback issue?

Kind regards,
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