Subsonic Forum

[kapz]

unRAID Server is a Network Attached Storage server operating system designed to boot from a USB Flash device and specifically designed for digital media storage. More information can be found on the website.

I have been a Subsonic user for many years. I have found it to be invaluable to me. I see no reason to be limited by a portable mp3 player (or waste money). Most cell phones these days can play music anyhow. Subsonic allows access to your entire music collection, not just what you have on the internal memory of your ipod/whatever. And there is only one device to carry around. My unRaid hardware consists of a 2.7GHz single-core and 2GB RAM. This runs Subsonic great (even better than WinXP/Apache on a faster computer). I’m new to linux/unRaid, but I hope this guide helps others try Subsonic on unRaid for themselves.

Remember, unRaid runs completely in memory and files need to be copied to non-volatile memory before rebooting/shutdown. I’ve written these scripts to make life easy.

Just Get It Working…
Note #1 The settings and paths below are from my configuration. All scripts are written with the paths used in this guide.
Note #2 I recommend using unRaid 4.6-beta11 or above. There is a significant performance increase with listing large music folders.

1. Download Subsonic Stand-alone.

2. Unpack subsonic-x.x-standalone.tar.gz files to “/subsonic/standalone/” on the flash drive (you must unzip the .tar to get the real files).

3. Extract the all files in transcode.zip (these are codecs I’ve compiled on unRaid) to “/subsonic/data/transcode/” on the flash drive.

4. Download the Java JRE Package jre-6u6-i586-3.tgz and copy it to a directory called “/packages_custom/” on the flash drive (no need to unzip it).

5. On your flash drive, open “/subsonic/standalone/subsonic.sh” with your favorite unix editor (here is one: metapad).

* At the top of the file you will see Subsonic's configuration variables. Add "JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java" to the top (see below).
* Optionally you may change the port number, context path, and increased the memory allocated for JAVA (I have a ton of music). The PID.txt path is used by the “subsonic_stop.sh” script.
* The default podcast and music folder are not needed and can be set later in the Subsonic interface.
* The Playlist path should be set to a non-volatile memory location. I am saving mine in on the flash drive.
* Save this file as “subsonic_RAM.sh” in the same directory (eg. /subsonic/standalone/subsonic_RAM.sh). It is important to save this file in unix format (metapad will display this in the status bar).

[sindre_mehus]

Thanks for your hard work, kapz!

I've added a link to this tutorial on the http://subsonic.sourceforge.net/installation.php page.
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[kapz]

I found a typo in one of my scripts. It's nothing that would cause Subsonic to not work. The cron_subsonic_copy_from_memory.sh script was scheduling to run the subsonic_copy_from_memory.sh script at 7pm. I used * for the rest of the values which made all the minutes between 7:00pm-7:59pm valid (essentially running the script 60 times). I have fixed this and uploaded scripts02.zip in the original instructions.

WRONG:
* 19 * * * /scripts/subsonic_copy_from_memory.sh

CORRECTED:
0 19 * * * /scripts/subsonic_copy_from_memory.sh

I also updated the subsonic_copy_from_memory.sh script to create the destination folders if they don't exist and to exclude copying the Subsonic source files from RAM (since they don’t change).
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12,768 artists
7,714 albums
102,570 songs
481.43 GB (~ 7,478 hours)

[kapz]

Path to download v3.9 changed in OP. The new version fixed the playlist order problem.

* Was notified that the crontab script had a wrong path in it. I have fixed this and added scripts03.zip to the OP.

Upgrade from 3.8 to 3.9 is fairly simple...
1) run the "/boot/scripts/subsonic_copy_from_memory.sh" This will save any changes made.

2) replace all the files in /boot/subsonic/standalone" with the new version (keep the subsonic_start_RAM.sh script)

3) delete "/boot/subsonic/tmp-subsonic-ehcache/" and "/boot/subsonic/data/jetty/" directories from the thumb drive if they exist. (only the jetty folder has the web files)

4) and reboot
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Paid Subsonic User
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12,768 artists
7,714 albums
102,570 songs
481.43 GB (~ 7,478 hours)

[daquint]

Hi there,


Thanks for the tutorial - but I am bit lost here.

I am editing these files directly on my flash drive and completing these steps through step 7.

It seems my go script is having issues finding the sh scripts its calling, and I am wondering if you could give me a hand (bit of a noob with the Linux stuff)

my go script:

#!/bin/bash
# Start the Management Utility
# JAVA Runtime
installpkg /packages_custom/jre-6u6-i586-3.tgz

# Run Subsonic and add Backup Job.
/scripts/subsonic_start.sh
/scripts/cron_subsonic_copy_from_memory.sh
/usr/local/sbin/emhttp &

Note: I am not using the /boot/ menu as I was a bit confused by steps 3 and 4 not mentioning a /boot/ but your step 5 explaining to copy files to the /boot/ (it is not a default directory for the flash Unraid). Perhaps thats my problem?

Here is my file structure:
Flash Root contains the following folders:
config
packages_custom (created by me for the JRE file)
scripts (the folder I created for your scripts03)
subsonic (folder I created to place the standalone,data, etc directories)

any help is appreciated - i really dont want to keep a windows box up for subsonic

thanks

mark

[Neph2010]

kapz, excellent tutorial.

I have Subsonic running on my Unraid box though I do have one issue that I hope either you or someone else can help me figure out. the problem I'm having is the folder directories. I have my music in shares which spread over two drives. How would I add the share to subsonic's settings?

Thanks

[kapz]

daquint,

I think I see the confusion. The unRaid system mounts the flash drive to "/boot". It shows up as "flash" on the samba share, but if you used ssh to log into the system /boot would be your flash drive.

You need to add "/boot" to the start of the following lines for the full path to the files.

# JAVA Runtime
installpkg /boot/packages_custom/jre-6u6-i586-3.tgz

# Run Subsonic and add Backup Job.
/boot/scripts/subsonic_start.sh
/boot/scripts/cron_subsonic_copy_from_memory.sh
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Paid Subsonic User
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12,768 artists
7,714 albums
102,570 songs
481.43 GB (~ 7,478 hours)

[kapz]

Neph2010,

If you are using shares in unRaid, you can just us the path to the share in the folder settings in subsonic. Shares are mounted in unRaid under "/mnt/user/". It does not matter what drives the files are on.

An example of my paths...

/mnt/user/MUSIC/CD ARCHIVE
/mnt/user/MUSIC/OLD SCHOOL

"MUSIC" is my unRaid share and the bold would be the music folder you want to show up in Subsonic.

Remember paths are cAsE SeNsItIve
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Paid Subsonic User
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12,768 artists
7,714 albums
102,570 songs
481.43 GB (~ 7,478 hours)

[daquint]

HI - Thanks for the quick reply!

Ive tried it this way as well (with boot) with the same directory structure I noted in previous post and get two errors after it loads the JRE and the transcoding lines:

Please see image

http://img99.imageshack.us/i/201004231901331.jpg/


Thanks for your help and patience!

[kapz]

daquint,

When editing the "/boot/subsonic/standalone/subsonic.sh" file (Step #5) did you save it as "subsonic_RAM.sh"?

The tmp-subsonic-ehcache error is normal the first time and will not happen once you get subsonic running.
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Paid Subsonic User
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12,768 artists
7,714 albums
102,570 songs
481.43 GB (~ 7,478 hours)

[daquint]

I did - I now have two files in the

I have both the original 'subsonic.sh' and the new 'subsonic_RAM.sh'

in my directory (editing the flash directly through windows) of

(root of the flash)\subsonic\standalone

Do i need to delete the original subsonic.sh once I rename it to _RAM?

thanks!

[kapz]

No you do not need to delete subsonic.sh. Were you able to get subsonic working? I've had some issues with subsonic sometimes not coming up even when the process has been started correctly.

If there are no errors when you run subsonic_start.sh and subsonic doesn't display a reboot works for me.

Remember the URL is whatever you added to the SUBSONIC_CONTEXT_PATH=/subsonic setting in step #5.

From within the network, this would be http://<IP ADDRESS><COLON><PORT>/subsonic
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12,768 artists
7,714 albums
102,570 songs
481.43 GB (~ 7,478 hours)

[SCSI]

Thanks for your tutorial which I discovered in the lime-tech forum and I've been hooked to Subsonic on my unRAID server ever since.

Are there any tutorial to get HTTPS/SSL configured in Subsonic on unRAID? I would like to access my Subsonic via HTTPS is possible.

Thank you!