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sherl0ck
September 15th, 2008, 01:07 AM
Subsonic is a great web-based media streamer.
URL: http://subsonic.sourceforge.net (http://subsonic.sourceforge.net)

Step1: Dependencies
sudo apt-get install tomcat5.5
cd; wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/subsonic/subsonic-3.4.zip

Step2: Modify Init For Tomcat & Start
sudo nano /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5
Change TOMCAT_SECURITY=yes to TOMCAT_SECURITY=no
*If anyone has a better solution for this please post.
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 start

Step3: Unzip/Install Subsonic
unzip subsonic-3.4.zip
mv subsonic.war /var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/
mkdir /var/subsonic
chown tomcat55:nogroup /var/subsonic

Step4: Test
firefox http://127.0.0.1:8180/subsonic

Enjoy! -Sherl0ck
GeirS73
October 11th, 2008, 07:37 PM
I run a 8.04 server edition and Subsonic works like a charm, except that thumbnails weren't shown. I got the following exception in /var/subsonic/subsonic.log

...
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageReaderSpi.cr eateReaderInstance(JPEGImageReaderSpi.java:89)
...

I googled for it and found an article (http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1783454) suggesting that the reason for the exception was probably that java didn't find the proper libX*.so libraries.

It seems that the java libraries are referencing /usr/X11R6/lib when looking for some low level image libraries, but on a server edition that directory doesn't exist (until you install X i guess). The solution is to do the following:


cd /usr/X11R6/
ln -s ../lib
TwiceOver
October 11th, 2008, 09:15 PM
Hrm.

Tomcat keeps crashing for me, I have to keep restarting the service. Also the site is really laggy for me. Other pages are just fine from my home server.

My dad was looking for something similar and I see it has a Windows installer, so I'll have him try it out. I use Jinzora2 for my streaming and that seems to work fine.
TwiceOver
October 13th, 2008, 07:05 PM
OK Got mine working... So far anyway. Just for reference. Subsonic requires both Java JRE and JDK in order to run and not crash I guess.

Nice program, the detachable web player is excellent. Finally my own music at work!