SubSonic and RaspBerryPI

[jonsaddles]

Anyone have any experience with using raspberry pi as a client and if so what player software are you using?

[nutt318]

Just got my model B and installed Raspxbmc and used a xmbc subsonic plugin. Anyways had to make a few tweaks to get the plugin working and get the video quality looking good. Otherwise its using about 50%cpu watching at 1000kbps.

[haribos]

Here's my Subsonic build with Rasberry Pi:
latest Raspbian “wheezy” without GUI only console, installed openjdk-6-jre and Subsonic 4.7 so far so good. But when I'm logging in on the Subsonic webgui java will but the cpu under heavy load for several minutes with constant 100%. The is an java leap second bug and tried the standard fix, but it solves nothing. Browsing with Ipad/Android client goes very slow, but streaming is no problem. How can i fune tune this build?

[rwdolson]

Has anyone managed to get Subsonic to play directly on a Raspberry Pi through the speaker jack? I have no problem setting up Subsonic on my Pi and accessing it remotely to play music but playing directly doesn't seem to work due to perhaps the inability to have Flash installed? Jukebox mode driven by an iSub installation on an iPod doesn't give errors but once again, no sound. Any ideas would be appreciated.
*** resolved *** here is an external link to a build doc that is in progress. http://mj2p.co.uk/?p=7

[yellobes]

rastapi, what JVM are you using (hard/soft float?)

Anybody know if Wheezy is still experiencing the same NTP bug? Should I apply that fix off the bat and be done with it?

Thanks much

[Megamorf]

I'll get my hands on my raspberry pi on April 10th and will thoroughly test it with the various distros.

How is your general setup? My plan is to stick a 64GB SDXC in it and partition it. How much space do the various distributions need? I will mainly use it to stream mp3s, but have a few flac encoded albums. From the previous posts I figured that transcoding maxes out the CPU, can anyone confirm that?

[PRAEst76]

Transcoding always seemed a bit much for my Pi, however its a 256MB model. You may have better luck with a later 512MB one.

[zapt0]

From the previous posts I figured that transcoding maxes out the CPU, can anyone confirm that?

Raspberry Pi only has one CPU core so it will max out the CPU. However the speed is fast enough to transcode FLAC to MP3.

Transcoding always seemed a bit much for my Pi, however its a 256MB model. You may have better luck with a later 512MB one.

Transcoding speed will be the same since it's dependent on the CPU and not the amount of memory.

[frippee]

I have been using my pi with subsonic for a couple days now without issue. The OS I'm using is moebius. Its based on debian and command line only, which of course cuts down overhead. I've also used the subsonic plugin on openelec with limited success. I run my music off of a USB thumbdrive instead of the sd card, but that shouldn't make much of a difference. Good luck.

[Megamorf]

I have been using my pi with subsonic for a couple days now without issue. The OS I'm using is moebius. Its based on debian and command line only, which of course cuts down overhead. I've also used the subsonic plugin on openelec with limited success. I run my music off of a USB thumbdrive instead of the sd card, but that shouldn't make much of a difference. Good luck.

Can you give us an insight on the system performance?

[jonsaddles]

Have also finally got time to sit down and put subsonic onto my pi and am really pleased with the results.
Apart from jukebox mode as I can't get sound out of the little thing everything is running well.
Os is the standard wheezy with a straight forward install of subsonic, no plugins or add ons used.
Music is stored in a 3.5" hard drive hooked to the pi by a powered usb hub which also powers the pi itself.
Going to test more over the next few days and then I have a new power supply to setup which will give me 12v also so larger drives will be possible.

[frippee]

Performance wise the pi works pretty good. Accessing via the web interface causes cpu% to spike to high 90s, but after the page loads, it settles back to under 5%. Streaming internally from my phone does the same, but no problems on the phone side Streaming to multiple users works well too.

[alphawave7]

I'm curious how it does on large collections...I had no issues on my Android->Ubuntu with a small sample of my library, but near no functionality when I included nearly 500 GB of music. Keep us posted!

[jonsaddles]

Well been running for what, about 3 weeks and have to say had no problems at all.
Streaming across my home network is near instantaneous and over mobile data no different to my previous windows setup.
Of course posting this is probably the kiss of death but for those thinking about moving to a Rpi as a server I can only recommend it heartily.
Can't comment on large collections as mine is probably 150-200 Gb. Was worried initially as using the Rpi for web browsing is a very slow & painfull experience but it seems to cope admirably with networking tasks.
Next step is to experiment with bubble upnp, any any experience people? I've seen a tutorial that puts bubble upnp server & mini dlna on top of an exisiting media streamer which ends up with a fully dlna compatible system.
The ultimate goal is for any device to browse & select music held on any other device and direct it's output to any device on the network. The bubble system seems to do that but it wasn't running on top of SS so who knows.

[votti]

I can highly recommend this guide for installation of Subsonic on the Pi:
http://mj2p.co.uk/?p=57

Java 8 with hard float really boosted the performance compared to my previous installation with java 6 and my system runs now really smoothly (with > 10'000 songs).

The guide also includes how to setup the jukeboox mode, however I had no chance to test it yet.