Planned features for Subsonic 6.1

[sindre_mehus]

Hi guys,

Just wanted to share with you what I've been working on for the upcoming 6.1 release:

New: Improved video streaming with HLS.
New: Bookmark support for podcasts, audio books and videos. Works across web players, SONOS and apps.
New: Improved artist radio feature. Prioritize top songs.
New: Improved search relevance.
New: Moved shuffle button next to player controls.
New: Added tooltip to player buttons.
New: Added controls for selecting all tracks in album/podcast/play queue.
New: Moved menu above play queue.
New: Show album and artist images on search result and "starred" pages.
New: Added tag support for AIFF files.
New: Added support for manually selecting video bitrate (in addition to HLS adaptive bitrate switching).
New: Added support for using MySQL or Postgres as database backends.
New: Upgraded default database HSQL to version 2.3.4.
New: Added table headers in web interface.
New: Nicer cover art images on hi-res screens.
New: Updated Dutch translation, courtesy of Toolman.
New: Updated Korean translation, courtesy of Rhetor Choi.
Bugfix: Fixed broken Chromecast support.
Bugfix: Avoid multiple submissions to Last.fm
Bugfix: Missing artist images.
Bugfix: "Save as playlist" broken in Firefox.
Bugfix: Left pane reloads when reloading random albums.
Bugfix: Download play queue broken if containing duplicate songs.
Bugfix: Windows uninstaller should only delete known files.
Bugfix: "Download all" sometimes causes corrupt zip file.
Bugfix: Some podcasts with https don't work.
Bugfix: Delete all pertaining files when deleting a podcast channel.
REST: Added getScanStatus and startScan methods.

I hope to release a beta version within a few weeks.

Take care
Sindre

[acroyear]

can you post, here or on the API google group, which of these are seen by the API? I know you talked about "similar songs" using the top-songs aspect, per "New: Improved artist radio feature. Prioritize top songs.", but wondering if the search queries' results will be different, etc.

Obviously, "REST: Added getScanStatus and startScan methods." is new. Not sure I'll add it to subfire directly, but maybe to SubFire Radio (the playlist generator). Is there a minimum security level (e.g., "must be Administrator") to use that feature in the API?

[Tak-MK]

Yaay! What about the "put the song I'm listening on the top when I click shuffle" Or the posibility to "Play Random" playlists.

¡Thanks a lot!

[phazzard]

Great news - high hopes for the announced improved search - Thanks again!

[jonda]

New: Bookmark support for podcasts, audio books and videos. Works across web players, SONOS and apps.

Hey, that's really cool. I'm just messing around with our audiobooks.

What about an option to put a book-description somewhere (tag or textfile like booksonic does)? Would that be complicated?

[rubbersoul]

Any chance of supporting VBR transcoding?

[texxasrulez]

I am stoked with the mysql capabilities coming. I look forward to what is implemented with new database options. I can't wait to test it out .... Thanks for your hard work ...

[degan6]

Awesome Glad to your still working on it.

[toolman]

Can't wait for the Beta. Thanks for your efforts,

[timlance]

Ability to search/sort by Composer would be very welcome.

[utopian]

excellent..looking forward to this...

[zeroday]

Great cannot wait to test the MySQL database

[Neil Hunt]

[fletchowns]

This is great news! So video transcoding will work again? I haven't been able to stream videos since v5.

[Tak-MK]

This is great news! So video transcoding will work again? I haven't been able to stream videos since v5.

It works for me, including subtitles