Subsonic 4.9.beta3 released

[sindre_mehus]

Subsonic 4.9.beta3 was released yesterday:

New: Modernized web interface. Nicer fonts, colors and layout. Larger album art.
New: Show thumbnails for "siebling" albums.
New: Generate automatic album art.
New: Replace Download button with Play next.
New: Use max gain 0 dB in jukebox mode to avoid distortion caused by clipping.
New: When playing a song, queue rest of album.
New: Added album lists "By decade" and "By genre".
New: Support playlists in DLNA.
New: DLNA now browses by folder, not tags.
New: Updated Dutch translation, courtesy of Toolman.
Bugfix: Fixed DLNA song duration and album art.
Bugfix: Newly added media was sometimes not picked up when scanning libraries.
Bugfix: Fixed font problem when using https.
Bugfix: Validate input in Settings > Internet TV/radio.
Bugfix: Honor "subsonic.host" system property when resolving local IP address.
Bugfix: Playlist management was broken on Tomcat 7.
Bugfix: Settings > Users was broken on Tomcat 7.
Bugfix: Settings > Personal was broken on Tomcat 7.
Bugfix: When clicking "Create new playlist", automatically expand list of playlists.
REST: Add year and genre to albums.
REST: Added "byYear" and "byGenre" to getAlbumList and getAlbumList2.
REST: Add "bookmarkPosition" to songs.
Performance: Fixed slow queries on large media collections (>100,000 files): get starred, get files in playlist, get genres.

This is planned to be the latest beta version before the final release.

Thanks in advance for your feedback!
Sindre

[daneren2005]

I love the list of stuff! Can you explain what these items mean?

New: Show thumbnails for "siebling" albums.
New: Generate automatic album art.

[jol]

I love the list of stuff! Can you explain what these items mean?

Good question, please also for:

Bugfix: Honor "subsonic.host" system property when resolving local IP address.

Why does Subsonic have to know it´s IP address, and how is that affected when run behind a proxy?
Thanks & Best regards, Joachim

[joost]

New: DLNA now browses by folder, not tags -> HARDCORE...

Is it possible there is something messed up in de special character support? In the previous (not beta) versions i could play songs with "é" characters in it, now he displays them as a folder. In general, special characters could be better supported.

Thanks for the update. New touch to the UI is looking good.

DLNA function not working with xbmc over here. Is there a change that it works in the final 4.9? Would be very nice... Can browse the folders and see the files. Can not play anything and do not see album art. Also the dlna server seems to be crashing a lot. Restarting the dlna makes the share browsable again.

[Jebba]

Cheers for the update!

Question: Is the automatic album art generated on the fly every time it is displayed? I see Java resources spiking tremendously every time a page with album art is loaded

[sindre_mehus]

I love the list of stuff! Can you explain what these items mean?

New: Show thumbnails for "siebling" albums.
New: Generate automatic album art.

The first item means that thumbnails for other albums by the same artist is displayed at the bottom of the page when you look at an album.

The second item means that a simple image displaying the album title and artist is generated if there is no album art for an album.

Sindre

[sindre_mehus]

I love the list of stuff! Can you explain what these items mean?

Good question, please also for:

Bugfix: Honor "subsonic.host" system property when resolving local IP address.

Why does Subsonic have to know it´s IP address, and how is that affected when run behind a proxy?
Thanks & Best regards, Joachim

It needs the local IP address for the DLNA service (telling DLNA clients where music can be streamed from), and for the UPnP port forwarding service.

Sindre

[baxtr]

Very nice update...one item is the Genre droplist doesn't contain any genres therefore making no albums show up....group by decade works fine but By Genre is empty...at least for me.

[daneren2005]

I had the same thing until I ran a scan

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[baxtr]

Thank you Daneren2005...That did the trick

[Kid Twist]

I prefer to wait until 4.9 is out of beta before I upgrade, but I'm very excited about the changes (thanks Sindre!) and I'm curious about the new look. Would someone mind posting posting screen shots? Thank you!

[joost]

http://appie.servebeer.com/screenie.tiff

New looks...

[joost]

A library rescan made the DLNA functionality show the album art in XBMC. Don't crashes anymore, however I'm still not able to play a song. Can see the song duration, title, number etc.. If i click on it, nothing happens or I get an error; could not play item.

VLC on OS X seems to deal with the same problem btw...

While reading about Upnp i had an idea, but I dont know if its possible? Upnp-clients get all of the meta-data from their server. When the server is capable of scraping artist info, album info and covers / fanart, it could pass that to media-center software (via upnp) or mobile apps / web-ui.

Keep up the good work, love subsonic.

[erikfig]

How come screenshots never get posted from update to update so WE THE USERS WHO PAID AND SUPPORT THIS PROJECT can decide if to upgrade or not? I'm waiting for the final anyways but please... Stop missing the basics Sindre.

[Kid Twist]

http://appie.servebeer.com/screenie.tiff

New looks...

Thank you very much.