Hi Develephant,

I am completely enthusiastic about your widget (and rated it accordingly :-}).
For a while (actually a night or two) I tried squeezebox as music server on my home network. It failed and hung fatally on some 'unexpected formats' I suppose. Half a year later I found Subsonic and have been using it ever since. Been using it with PCs --> great! Phones (htc magic --> Android App, nokia n8 --> web browser because no symbian 3 App available) --> not so amazing.
Your widget is working great with my Chumby One at work (using DynDNS to access the server at home). It plays most files the subsonic web interface (firefox) plays. Possibly transcoding flac leading to too high bit rates.
I can't make it work at home though (even when setting up a separate channel using a static local IP in the widget config). At home I have a Chumby classic. The widget starts (it even shows some cover art sometimes), file and folder browsing is OK, but when I start a song there is only an initial click on the speaker system and then silence. I can browse on, but the behavior remains. I haven't found a song it would play at home. And I have tried songs that did work at work (whoa, a pun!)

Anyway, thanks for the widget and I am truly looking forward to future releases.

Stefan

Just curious, have you tried the chumby classic at another location? Does the clicking and silence happen with other audio sources, such as Shoutcast? I had this problem with my classic on Shoutcast. I went back and forth with tech support for some time. They finally wanted to see my classic, so I shipped it back to them and they sent me a new one.

Shoutcast works really well, so does mediafly. I'll need to try it somewhere else. Or run a wireshark trace on the server to see what the Chumby Classic is requesting. I wish there were some debug output available on the chumby side. (There actually may be some I just don't know about)

I've loaded the Subsonic Chumby widget on my Sony Dash but cannot get it to connect to my Subsonic server. I get the message "Could Not Connect To Your Subsonic Server", followed by the splash screen which never advances. My Subsonic server is hosted on a Mac Mini on my local network and works fine with all other clients. Here's what I've done so far:

1. Downloaded the crossdomain.xml file, but subsequently found that it was already in place (perhaps newer versions of the Subsonic server install already include this?)

2. Confirmed that the crossdomain.xml file already in place was identical to that which I downloaded.

3. Confirmed that the proper reference to crossdomain.xml already existed in the applicationContext-security.xml file.

4. Configured the Chumby widget to point to "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4040", where the server ip is on the same local subnet to which the Sony Dash is connected.

5. Configured the Chumby widget to use a known good username/password on the Subsonic server.

6. Restarted both the Subsonic server and the Sony Dash.

7. Confirmed that the same ip/port and credentials work from a computer browser and a Subsonic iPhone client app.

I'm not sure what else to try. Any suggestions?

Got it working now!
How?
Turn everything off. Go on vacation. Return and restart everything at home. :-}

Still can't understand why some folders seem to be recognized as files and thus can't be played.
Anyway. Wonderful app. It has got (and truly deserves) its very own channel.

Stefan

CBreeze,

I do have my music organized in folders and use Subsonic on my phone & on the web, frequently.

What appears to be happening is this:  If there is a directory  that contains both .mp3 files AND sub-directories containing more .mp3s,  then those sub-directories will appear as songs and be unplayable.   If I have a directory that contains only sub-directories, then they appear as albums and are brows-able/playable.

I have a lot of directories that contain both .mp3 singles and full album sub-dirs.  Currently your player won't play the sub-dirs unless I move the .mp3 singles into their own sub-dir.   (at least this seems to be the case based on 20 minutes of testing).

Is this fixable or should I re-arrange my collection? 

Thanks again for the app!  Much appreciated.

Hello,

I have pretty much exactly the same set-up using the latest Subsonic (45) but am not having any issues.  Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Subsonic internally to offer much assistance.  I am using a direct ip and not "localhost".  I also allow Subsonic to open the ports on my router automatically, which may help.  Again, beyond the widget working I am not to sure about what the issues could be.

I can confirm this behavior as well. I'll be moving the singles into their own folders.

I'm sorry I can't be of more assistance in this department, but thank you for the kind words.

-dev

Thank you for the kind words.  I'll take a look at the issues you mentioned.  I do want to give this widget a nice update as soon as I get more organized.  I did some recent experiments with video trans-coding from Subsonic and didn't have too much luck (massive lag and sync issues).  I've yet to try it on a larger chumby as I was hoping it would run on the smaller ones, like Orb did.  Stay tuned though, I should have something coming down the pipes "soon-ish."

Cheers.

Merry Christmas, and hope things are going well ...

Just wanted to mention that it looks like MP3 files will only play if they have "Contributing Artist" set - if it is blank it looks like the song is playing but nothing happens ... not sure if this is Subsonic or the widget.  It may be the widget since the display below the song changes in the song list.

Hope to see new versions!

Thanks again,
-Jim

P.S.  I'd be happy to help look into fixing things if the source is available somewhere ...