Unwanted player and playlist behaviour

[colin--r]

5.3 (build 4568) – October 24, 2015
jetty-6.1.x, java 1.7.0_95, Linux (119.0 MB / 145.0 MB)

Using via Safari/Chrome on OSX, external player of choice is Vox.

Premium license, if that makes any difference.

There are some behaviours which I do not like and cannot seem to solve.

(1) I cannot ever make Subsonic trigger Vox or any other external media player. It will therefore not load any playlists in external players. I am only able to commence playback in-browser, which is not suitable for my needs.

(2) If I play a track - any track - on the web interface, it loads every single successive track in that folder, into the playlist. E.g. if I play the first track inside a folder, all other tracks get added.

I don't understand why Subsonic is suddenly behaving like this. I've been using it for years and in the last two versions it seems to have a mind of its own. Any help or feedback would be most gratefully received.

[acroyear]

#2 became an option you can turn off in the Settings page. I can't remember if it is in the options in 5.3 or new to the 6.0 beta.

I can't speak for the external player stuff. I often would get a m3u file that triggered VLC which was never particularly useful to me (esp as i had to explicitly double-click it, plus all the finder hackery to get m3us to not open up in iTunes), so was always the built-in web interface until I went and built my own app.

[colin--r]

Thanks, I'll upgrade to 6 and see how that goes, because those settings definitely aren't in 5.3.

An m3u file is exactly what I want, but it won't give me one