Version history for Subsonic
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Changes for v6.1.4 - v6.1.5
- Bugfix: Fix error in getIndexes REST method causing wrong/missing artist name to be returned
Changes for v6.1.3 - v6.1.4
- New: Bundle Java 8 JRE with Windows installer.
- •New: Update French translation, courtesy of Denis
- •REST: Added artistImageUrl to Artist and ArtistID3
- •Bugfix: Upgrade to reCAPTCHA V2 (for resetting password)
- •Bugfix: Avoid duplicate Last.fm scrobbles
Changes for v6.1.2 - v6.1.3
- Bugfix: Avoid player getting stuck when playing transcoded tracks.
- •Bugfix: Externally modified tracks disappear in Subsonic.
- •Bugfix: Hide links, buttons etc in the web interface if a user is not allowed to play music.
Changes for v6.1.1 - v6.1.2
- Bugfix: Make it work with latest Sonos firmware.
- •REST: Added create/update/deleteInternetRadioStation methods.
Changes for v6.1 - v6.1.1
- Bugfix: Fix broken streaming for some apps.
- Bugfix: Fix error in REST getLyrics method.
Changes for v6.0 - v6.1
- New: Support lyrics in ID3 tags.
- •New: Add Shuffle button to playlist
- •New: Update Japanese translation, courtesy of ChameleonCyber.
- •Bugfix: Fix broken jukebox.
- •Bugfix: "Clean-up database" throws exception when using MySQL/PostgreSQL
Changes for v6.0 - v6.1 beta 2
- Bugfix: Reverted to HSQLDB 1.8 due to performance issues and errors. If you previously installed 6.1.beta1, please restore your database backup when upgrading to 6.1.beta2.
- •Bugfix: Reduce memory usage. (Fixed a serious memory leak in the embedded Jetty used by the Windows, Mac and Linux packages).
- •New: Updated Dutch translation, courtesy of Toolman.
- Subsonic 6.1.beta1 - Mar 11, 2017
- •New: Improved video streaming with HLS.
- •New: Added support for manually selecting video bitrate (in addition to HLS adaptive bitrate switching).
- •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: Added support for using MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB as database backends.
- •New: Upgraded default database HSQLDB to version 2.3.4.
- •New: Show album and artist images on search result and "starred" pages.
- •New: Added tag support for AIFF files.
- •New: Added table headers in web interface.
- •New: Nicer cover art images on hi-res screens.
- •New: Nicer top and left menus.
- •New: Added controls for selecting all tracks in album/podcast/play queue.
- •New: Moved menu above play queue.
- •New: Moved shuffle button next to player controls.
- •New: Added tooltip to player buttons.
- •New: Updated Dutch translation, courtesy of Toolman.
- •New: Updated Korean translation, courtesy of Rhetor Choi.
- •New: Updated Estonian translation, courtesy of Olav Mägi.
- •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.
Changes for v5.3 - v6.0
- New: Updated French translation, courtesy of Christophe
- •New: Updated Dutch translation, courtesy of Toolman
- •New: Updated German translation, courtesy of deejay2302
- •New: Updated Japanese translation, courtesy of ChameleonCyber.
- •Bugfix: Fixed broken "External player with playlist"
- •Bugfix: Embedded internet radio player now works with most streams.
- •Bugfix: Don't queue following songs when playing from search results / starred songs.
Changes for v6.0. beta 1 - v6.0 beta 2
- New: Replaced JW Player with native HTML5 (audio) and Flowplayer (video).
- New: Use HLS transcoding (with Flowplayer) for video playback.
- New: Improved breadcrumbs for easier navigation.
- New: Keyboard shortcut "q" to toggle play queue.
- New: Keyboard shortcut "l" to toggle list/grid mode.
- New: Use tabs for media folders on Index page.
- New: New page for playing internet radio stations.
- New: Added repeat button in player.
- New: Added "View as list" option for podcasts, playlists and starred pages.
- New: Show [+] icon when hovering over cover art.
- New: Nicer play queue action buttons.
- New: Updated Japanese translation, courtesy of Kenji Maekawa.
- New: Show last 100 chat messages (instead of 10).
- New: Store converted videos in configurable directory.
- New: Added option to set bitrate when converting videos.
- New: Configurable disk usage threshold for video conversion.
- New: Added option "Show index in left sidebar" in Settings > Personal
- New: Added button to show/hide play queue. Only visible if "Settings > Personal > Auto-expand play queue" is turned off.
- New: Add button to star currently playing song (keyboard shortcut "*")
- New: Increase default transcoding bitrate from 192 to 320 kbps.
- New: Self-host fonts (internet connection no longer required).
- New: Use Open Sans font.
- Bugfix: Play count and "last played" not always updated.
- Bugfix: Play queue doesn't collapse in Firefox.
- Bugfix: Play queue shows wrong format for transcoded files.
- Bugfix: Unstarring from starred.jsp broken
- Bugfix: Hide index letters when filtering on Index page.
- Bugfix: Use correct protocol and port from custom URL (in Settings > Network)
- REST: Support for retrieving converted videos (see stream method).
- REST: Added getVideoInfo method.
- REST: Added getCaptions method.
- REST: Added "audioTrack" to hls method.
- REST: createPlaylist now returns the created/updated playlist.
- REST: Added avatarLastChanged to User.
- REST: Return error code 41 if trying to authenticate LDAP users by token.
- Sonos: Added option to play all top songs for an artist.
Changes for v5.3 - v6.0. beta 1
- New: Completely overhauled user interface.
- •New: HTML5 audio and video playback.
- •New: Integrated video converter for converting to streamable MP4 format. Selectable audio track.
- •New: Video subtitles, also on Chromecast. Supports SRT and VTT formats.
- •New: Keyboard shortcuts (press "?" to get started).
- •New: New "Index" page replaces artist list in left frame.
- •New: Artist thumbnail image and album notes (from Last.fm).
- •New: Show album year, song count, genre and duration
- •New: Show personal rather than average rating.
- •Sonos: Star/unstar tracks.
- •Sonos: Artist bio and album notes.
- •Sonos: Improved radio feature.
- •Sonos: Artist top songs.
- •Sonos: Nicer presentation on Android and iOS controllers.
- •Sonos: Show artist image, if cached.
- •REST: Added getAlbumInfo and getAlbumInfo2.
- •REST: Added playCount.
- •REST: Added musicFolderId parameter to getArtists.
- •Bugfix: Reimplemented cover art search using Last.fm.
- •Bugfix: Ensure changed cover art is displayed.
- •Security: Authenticate stream endpoints with tokens.
Changes for v5.3 beta2 - v5.3
- New: Show sidebar by default. Remember state across sessions.
- •New: Update Japanese translation, courtesy of Kenji Maekawa
- •New: Update German translation, courtesy of deejay2302
- •New: Added "Show all albums" overflow button.
- •Bugfix: Fixed error with list of newest podcast episodes.
- •Bugfix: Much faster artist bio.
- •Bugfix: Display shorter artist bio.
- •REST: Add method to get newest podcast episodes.
- •REST: Improved performance of getArtists.
Changes for v5.3.beta1 - v5.3 beta2
- Bugfix: Fixed performance issue when retrieving "top songs".
- •New: Allow custom URL as an alternative to *.subsonic.org
- •New: Display proper message when visiting a non-existent or expired share.
- •New: Added option to delete all expired shares.
Changes for v5.2.1 - v5.3.beta1
- New: Show top tracks for artist.
- New: Improved artist bio design.
- New: Redesigned podcast pages.
- New: Hide left frame by default, added toggle button.
- New: Support custom subsonic.org redirects.
- New: Make default album list on home screen configurable.
- New: Make play button behaviour configurable (Settings > Personal > Queue following songs on play)
- New: Improve UI when no media is found.
- New: Updated German translation, courtesy of deejay2302.
- New: Show Last.fm info even if artist name is slightly wrong
- Bugfix: Ensure correct playback speed for mono and high sample frequency files in jukebox mode.
- Bugfix: Grant access to media folders when auto-creating LDAP users.
- Bugfix: Improved performance for podcast channels with many (>1000) episodes.
- Bugfix: Chromecast stops casting before movie ends.
- Bugfix: Expiration date not updated when upgrading from normal to lifetime subscription.
- Bugfix: Starred image not shown for videos
- Bugfix: "Show artist info" should be turned on by default when creating new users.
- Bugfix: Include cover art when downloading whole album.
- Bugfix: Downloading png album art doesn't always work.
- Bugfix: Limit number of concurrent cover art requests, to avoid out-of-memory.
- Security: Fixed some XSS vulnerabilities
- Security: Log failed login attempts. Can be used by fail2ban for IP banning.
- Sonos: Manage Subsonic playlists from the Sonos controller.
- Sonos: Show track numbers
- REST: Added more secure authentication scheme.
- REST: Added getTopSongs
- REST: Consider disc number in sorting for getAlbum
- REST: Added original width and height for videos.
- REST: Added album rating to getIndexes and getMusicDirectory.
- REST: Added maxBitRate to getUser, getUsers and updateUser.
- REST: Added license and trial expiration dates in getLicense.
- REST: Added cover art (and original image url) for podcast channels.
- REST: Support reverse chronological album lists.
- REST: Improved metadata updates of ID3 albums, e.g., changing cover art.
- REST: Add changed date to playlists.
- REST: Avoid duplicate Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers.
Changes for v5.2 - v5.2.1
- Bugfix: Fixed popping sound when starting songs in jukebox mode.
- •Bugfix: Download playlist is broken.
- •Bugfix: Hide dock icon on Mac OS.
- •Bugfix: Unable to play podcast if located outside media folders.
- •Bugfix: Scrobbled songs don't appear in "Now playing".
- •Bugfix: Support native streaming of ALAC and AAC to Sonos, see description.
- •Bugfix: Support streaming to Sonos from remote Subsonic servers, see description.
Changes for v5.1 - v5.2
- New: Added option to save/load current play queue, including current song and position.
- •New: Bundle Java 8 JRE with Mac installer.
- •New: Use Java 8 for Windows installer.
- •Bugfix: Fixed bug in Settings > Users that occured with Java 8.
- •Bugfix: Fixed broken global shuffle play in Sonos.
- •Bugfix: Make scrobbling work for Sonos.
- •REST: Added savePlayQueue, getPlayQueue.
Changes for v5.1 beta 2 - v5.1
- Bugfix: Misc improvements to list mode
Changes for v5.1.beta 1 - v5.1 beta 2
- New: Drag and drop to rearrange playlists and play queue.
- •New: Added buttons for toggling between thumbnail and list mode.
- •New: Don't remove songs from playlists if they become unavailable.
- •New: Show toast when adding songs to queue.
- •New: Nicer display of "No media folders found", "New version available" etc
- •New: Make title clickable in video thumb
- •New: Show song count and duration in play queue.
- •New: New favicon
- •New: Support starring/unstarring videos.
- •New: Added video category in "Starred".
- •Bugfix: Show correct "siebling" albums.
- •REST: scrobble method now also updates play statistic and the list of "now playing" songs
Changes for v5.0 - v5.1.beta 1
- New: New video page, with preview thumbs.
- New: New playlists page, with cover art.
- New: Automatically show/hide play queue.
- New: Show artist image and bio.
- New: Show similar artists, with radio feature.
- New: Instant search (show search results while typing)
- New: Refreshed design.
- New: Added "shuffle play" to album lists in home page.
- New: Show song title in browser window title.
- New: Filter home screen by selected music folder
- New: Auto-start videos.
- New: Sort artists using locale-specific collation.
- New: Updated Estonian translation, courtesy of Olav Mägi.
- New: Show avatar in upper-right corner.
- New: Removed external ads.
- Bugfix: Video playback broken behind proxies.
- Bugfix: Wrong aspect rate for shared videos.
- Bugfix: Configure Windows firewall for all network profiles.
- REST: Added getSimilarSongs and getArtistInfo.
- REST: Support playlist cover art
- REST: Added musicFolderId parameter to getAlbumList
Changes for v5.0 Beta 2 - v5.0
- Bugfix: Use UTF-8 encoding for filenames in ZIP archives. (Requires Java 7+)
- Bugfix: Fixed problem with unresponsive dialogs in web interface.
- Bugfix: Use 2000 kbps as default video bitrate.
- Bugfix: Sort playlists alphabetically.
- Bugfix: Fixed some sorting issues (e.g., for same artist found in multiple media folders).
- Bugfix: Make password recovery work with https.
Changes for v5.0 beta1 - v5.0 Beta 2
- New: Support casting to remote Chromecasts (requires *.subsonic.org address)
- New: Added video bitrate selector.
- New: Make DLNA media server name configurable.
- New: Updated Czech translation, courtesy of Trottel.
- New: Enable compression for XML, JSON and JSONP in the REST API
- New: Set X-Content-Duration to support opus encoding.
- Bugfix: Fixed problem with whole tab being sent to Chromecast rather than just the video.
- Bugfix: Access-Control-Allow-Origin header sometimes missing in REST responses.
- Bugfix: Fix DLNA recursion bug.
- Bugfix: Fixed mixed content errors when changing cover art, and using https (courtesy of daneren2005)
- Bugfix: Fixed errors on certain podcast feeds where they were being incorrectly labeled as video files (courtesy of daneren2005)
- Bugfix: Updated ffmpeg commands to fix some transcoding issues.
- Bugfix: Fixed bug in REST method changePassword
- Bugfix: Avoid creating duplicate players when switching from Chromecast to local.
Changes for v4.9 beta 4 - v5.0 beta1
- New: Chromecast support.
- New: Added play overlay button in cover art images.
- New: Added browser notification.
- New: Nicer scrollbar (in Webkit browsers).
- New: Nicer styling of input fields and buttons.
- New: Nicer icons.
- New: Added Estonian translation, courtesy of Olav Mägi.
- New: Added Korean translation, courtesy of Rhetor Choi.
- New: Added link to Jamstash.
- Bugfix: Fixed broken Mac installer.
- Bugfix: External player doesn't auto-advance.
- Bugfix: Improved support for https in UPnP.
Changes for v4.9 beta 3 - v4.9 beta 4
- New: Support playlist sharing on Facebook etc.
- New: Added "Play next" button to playlist view.
- New: Added "Play all" to starred songs.
- New: Added "Save as playlist" to starred songs.
- New: Show cover art for starred albums.
- New: Show album/song count in genre list.
- New: When playing a song from a playlist, queue other songs in that playlist.
- New: When clicking the play icon for a song, add whole album to play queue.
- New: Clicking on album thumb in "Now playing" now opens album page.
- New: Cache generated album art.
- Bugfix: Don't create zip file when downloading a single song.
- Bugfix: Show cover art in the right order.
- Bugfix: Hande genres names with special characters (e.g., "R&B").
- Bugfix: Fixed character encoding problems in some translations.
- Bugfix: Use locale-specific names for automatically created playlists.
- REST: Added album/song count in getGenres.
Changes for v4.9.beta 2 - v4.9 beta 3
- New: Modernized web interface. Nicer fonts, colors and layout. Larger album art.
- New: Show thumbnails for "siebling" albums.
- New: Generate automatic album art.
- New: Replace Download button with Play next.
- New: Use max gain 0 dB in jukebox mode to avoid distortion caused by clipping.
- New: When playing a song, queue rest of album.
- New: Added album lists "By decade" and "By genre".
- New: Support playlists in DLNA.
- New: DLNA now browses by folder, not tags.
- New: Updated Dutch translation, courtesy of Toolman.
- Bugfix: Fixed DLNA song duration and album art.
- Bugfix: Newly added media was sometimes not picked up when scanning libraries.
- Bugfix: Fixed font problem when using https.
- Bugfix: Validate input in Settings > Internet TV/radio.
- Bugfix: Honor "subsonic.host" system property when resolving local IP address.
- Bugfix: Playlist management was broken on Tomcat 7.
- Bugfix: Settings > Users was broken on Tomcat 7.
- Bugfix: Settings > Personal was broken on Tomcat 7.
- Bugfix: When clicking "Create new playlist", automatically expand list of playlists.
- REST: Add year and genre to albums.
- REST: Added "byYear" and "byGenre" to getAlbumList and getAlbumList2.
- REST: Add "bookmarkPosition" to songs.
- Performance: Fixed slow queries on large media collections (>100,000 files): get starred, get files in playlist, get genres
Changes for v4.8 - v4.9.beta 2
- New: Use modern icons and fonts.
- New: Added light icons for dark themes.
- Bugfix: Proper support for album artist.
- Bugfix: Remember DLNA settings when restarting server.
- Bugfix: Play next/last popup menu was unreadable in some themes.
- Bugfix: Created signed installer for Mac OS.
- New: Added Estonian translation, courtesy of Olav Mägi.
- REST: Created updateUser method.
- REST: Added "starred" to "Directory" and "Artist" in xsd.
- Subsonic 4.9.beta1 - Oct 12, 2013
- New: Added a DLNA/UPnP Media Server. This feature is experimental and might not work with all DLNA clients.
- New: Added "Play next" option.
- New: Updated Estonian translation, courtesy of Olav Mägi.
- REST: Escape special characters in XML for getGenres.
- REST: Added ignoredArticles to getIndexes.
- Bugfix: Improved lyrics search.
- Bugfix: Trim license key when registering.
- Bugfix: Fix download file names with special characters.
- Bugfix: Don't create a new player for each download.
- Tech: Make Subsonic work on Tomcat 7.
- Tech: Increased limit of internal database from 2 to 8 GB (fresh installs only).
- Tech: Set MIME type for cover arts.
- Security: Added CAPTCHA to password recovery page
Changes for v4.7 - v4.8
- New: Introduced Subsonic Premium. (Note: Existing licenses will remain valid)
- New: Re-import playlists if file timestamp has changed.
- New: Make playlist folder setting visible again.
- New: Changed bitrate to video resolution mapping.
- New: Added Norwegion Nynorsk translation, courtesy of Kevin Brubeck Unhammer.
- New: Updated Dutch translation, courtesy of W. van der Heijden.
- New: Updated German translation, courtesy of deejay2302.
- New: Updated French translation, courtesy of Yoann Spicher.
- New: Updated Simplified Chinese translation, courtesy of Zhenghao Zhu.
- Bugfix: Settings > Network doesn't show error if a subsonic.org address is in use.
- Bugfix: Improved speed of tag editing.
- Bugfix: Ogg dates not always parsed properly.
- Bugfix: Sort songs by filename if track number is missing.
- Bugfix: Fix init exception in podcast bean.
- Bugfix: Links to minisub and apps icons doesn't honor context path.
- Bugfix: Less aggressive removal of track number from title.
- Bugfix: HLS broken with context path.
- Bugfix: Video player didn't require authentication.
- Bugfix: Download cover to replace in-metadata image results in renaming music file (".old").
- REST: Added Podcast methods.
- REST: Added bookmark methods.
- REST: Added getInternetRadioStations.
- REST: Added getGenres.
- REST: Added getSongsByGenre.
- REST: Added option to disable transcoding when streaming.
- REST: Fixed a bug in getAlbumList which caused it to return non-albums in some cases.
- REST: Support CORS.
- REST: Support "parent" attribute in getMusicDirectory.
- Tech: Install Java 7 rather than Java 6.
