Updated Subsonic?

[hgelpke]

I just discovered Amahi today and am very interested in moving my server over to it. My only concern is Subsonic. I see talks of 3.6 and 3.7 but the current version is 4.3. Is anybody successfully running 4.3 on their system?

[bigfoot65]

Hello,

Currently we do not have Subsonic live in Amahi. The last update was to 3.8 about 6 months ago by the packager. If you would like to help move it along, that would be great.

We need someone who can install it and make it work manually, then we can update the Amahi app. I will try to take a look at it at some point, but we are a small team and overwhelmed with Fedora 14 development.

If you can help, please document the steps to install and make it work (here or in the wiki). I can then use those to rebuild the Amahi app. Suggest posting them in the wiki if possible.

[cpg]

Better yet, you can take ownership of packaging that app and make sure it's always up to date.

[stueyboy]

Hi there. I have subsonic running on my HDA install but as a standalone server. As long as you make sure not to use a port already in use it should be fine. I don't really have the knowledge to help package it up for amahi I'm afraid.

v4.3 is pretty good and has support for video as well which works pretty well. The user forums are discussing how to also include picture support.

[cpg]

If you installed it once, you can package it for Amahi, that's for sure (we can help you)

If nothing else you can document it.

[stueyboy]

OK should I just read the "how to create a web app" wiki page and then document how I installed it standalone and give it a go? I'm keen to not bugger up my existing install but I think it might work side by side as a test service, maybe someone can advise if this is the case?

The only real issue with it is that over the past few months there have been quite a few updates from the developer.

[stueyboy]

OK I have had a go at transferring my subsonic install to a HDA web app and it went pretty smoothly. I can now access the app and it is installed in the right place. I do need to manually add the port number to the address so can someone tell me what to edit to enable this to be done automatically http://subsonic:4040 needs to be called when I type "subsonic". Once this is done, I can document it for everyone.

To get it to work what I have done is take an existing install and copy the original subsonic directory then edited the subsonic.sh file to change the home folder location. Not very elegant but it works.

[farfromrefuge]

I am very interested by this. COuld you please share info on how to install 4.3 on amahi?

THanks

[stueyboy]

I made some notes about how I converted my existing install to an Amahi web-app...

You should also read this wiki post as well http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Webapps

This was done with an existing Subsonic install which was completely functional and had a complete database with album art etc.

You can download the current subsonic RPM from here
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/download.jsp
Recommend you have a browse of the whole site while you are there.

So, before starting the process below, I had installed Subsonic using the developers package so that it installed all the relevant files in the various locations (e.g. /usr/share, /etc/sysconfig & /etc/init.d) I have no idea how I would have installed it straight into the web-apps/subsonic/html directory. I thought it best to let the package do the work and then move it. Also, I wanted to keep all the related data, playlists and album art from my existing pretty large media collection.

So, here are the steps I followed to get it (mostly) working (all done as root);

If you have subsonic service running close it (service subsonic stop)
Create web-app name = subsonic
Copy the contents of the existing Subsonic install directory /var/subsonic
Paste it all into the /var/hda/web-apps/subsonic/html folder
Copy existing subsonic.sh in /usr/share/subsonic/ folder and rename it to subsonic_correct.sh in case of errors.
Edit subsonic.sh
Change SUBSONIC_HOME location to point to web-apps location as above
Save subsonic.sh file to implement changes
Go to /etc/sysconfig and edit subsonic file
Change memory limit to at least 512Mb (optional but will help for multiple user access etc.)
Start the service again (service subsonic start)

You should be sorted now and the subsonic service should be looking at the web-app instead of the old location. I renamed the old one to be sure from /var/subsonic to subsonic_old to check. In the subsonic UI, go to the about tab and check the location of the log file and it should be the new /var/hda/web-apps/subsonic/html location

[bigfoot65]

The latest version, 4.4 I believe, has been packaged. It is currently in testing and anticipate it will be available in the near future if all goes well.

http://www.amahi.org/apps/subsonic