Subsonic Does not Respect the File Type Filters Anymore

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After waiting a long time on an older version because I had no real reason to upgrade, I noticed after updating tags on my m4a collection that the Subsonic web streamer was no longer capable of playing random files for some reason so I thought I'd see if upgrading fixed it.

Well the good news is upgrading fixed that bug, but much to my surprise I noticed that my music collection had doubled in size! In my media folders I keep my mp3 originals and I have a background task that scans and offline transcodes them to m4a and keeps them in the same folder with the same name. Normally this wasn't a problem because you could easily remove mp3 and just leave m4a in the Music Files setting under the General section and subsonic would ignore the mp3s.

Apparently in 4.8 this is completely broken. Subsonic will index and list absolutely everything it can find, and I guess that setting box is just for fun now. Can someone tell me if this is the new expected behavior, or just a bug that needs fixing?

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Alright, so it turns out it DOES obey the setting, however upgrading to 4.8 sets it back to defaults, AND it is literally 100% completely and totally impossible to make subsonic forget files it has indexed in a particular path. You can use the cute DB cleanup button, completely delete and re-add the media folder, and do both of those things in combination with restarting the Subsonic service but absolutely nothing will make it forget.

I ended up just changing the actual path of my media folder in Windows to fool Subsonic into thinking it was a new folder and it finally worked.

This is why people don't like to upgrade.

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4.8 apparently also defaults your transcoding settings, another bug there.

I apologize for getting angry though, Subsonic is still a great product and I appreciate all the work that goes into it, but it's frustrating that seemingly so little testing would go into a release before it gets published.