Introduction

This software is a ROKU front-end to the Subsonic media streaming server. It provides the following features:

• Browse your entire catalog
• Search for artists, albums, songs
• Full catalog shuffle playback
• Quick browse of Subsonic album lists (Random, Recent, Top Rated, etc.)

Tested on Roku firmware version: 2.9 and 3.0

Please provide feedback: https://github.com/inbox/new/maihde

Install this channel: https://owner.roku.com/add/SUBSONIC

Release Notes

1.10.0 - 14th Mar 2015

• Fix bug that would cause hang on first startup
• Added introduction screen
• Added demo mode

1.9.0 - 26th Feb 2015

• Add support for Podcasts

1.8.0 - 14th Jan 2015

• Change Artist image to fill poster screen
• Add default Album and Song images
• Provide support for Artist->Song file organization (as opposed to Artist->Album->Song)
• Add "Play All" and "Shuffle All" for Artist Screen

1.7.0 - 4th Mar 2011

• No code changes from 1.6.0, republished to take advantage of new ability to publish channels to non-US Roku players.

1.6.0 - 10th Jan 2011

• Fix bug that prevents the channel from working if a wrong username/password has been entered
• Fix bug where the back button does not work on the track-playback screen or the "Show Queue" screen

1.5.0 - 9th Jan 2011

• Fix bug that prevent leaving the Configuration Screen when an invalid server parameters are entered
• Fix memory leak that could occur if the main screen is left running continuously
• Fix bug that prevented the main screen background updaters from working correctly in all instances
• Add support to show the "Now Playing" list
• Show artist in description area of main screen

1.4.0 - 7th Jan 2011

• Add support for playback of playlists (both as-is and shuffled) - You can press the play button to bypass the springboard
• Show album ratings on main screen
• Pressing up on search results returns back to main screen
• Improve speed by building URLs with cached values instead of reading the registry
• Deal with loss of server connection while program is running
• Reload main screen (in background) so that lists stay up to date

1.3.0 - 19th Nov 2011

• Request properly scaled images from the Subsonic server to avoid slow response when viewing folders (artists) with a large number of albums
• Change browse icon to prepare for 1.4.0 support for "Now Playing" icon
• Fix bug when setting username/password

1.2.0 - 28th Sep 2011

• Searches that return no results display a message instead of an empty results screen
• Improved the functionality of "Test Connection" on settings screen
• Auto-test the connectivity to the server on startup
• Port 4040 is used by default unless a port is specified for the server address setting
• Screensaver shows album art when playing music
• Pressing the "back" button on the remote takes you to the start of the song; pressing again takes you back to the previous song (i.e. CD-player functionality)

1.1.0 - 9th July 2011

• Fix issue where "Play Queue" screen did not show album/artist information
• Display progress bar while playing songs
• Add Next/Prev buttons to the playback screen menu (remote left/right arrows retain the same behavior for skipping as in 1.0 release)
• Remove the star-rating item from the playback screen since Subsonic doesn't provide support for that over the API
• Added extra guidance to the server address configuration screen
• Reduce the number of shuffled songs to fetch at one time to 20 instead of 100. This improves response times when selecting shuffle

1.0.0 - 29th May 2011

• First published release
• Provided basic functionality including: * Ablity to browse and play albums from your music collection * Continuous shuffle of your entire music collection * Search your collection for artists, albums, and songs * Quick access to subsonic album lists (Random, Recent, Top Rated, etc.)

Credits

Icons from Emre Ozcelik's "Elegant Blue Web" icon set

http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset%3Aellegant

Known Issues

1. With Subsonic 4.5 and earlier, transcoded files play only a portion of the file. Subsonic 4.6 resolves this issue. See this link for a patch of 4.4 and 4.5:

   http://www.activeobjects.no/subsonic/forum/viewtopic.php?p=26893#26893

2. roGridScreen doesn't cooperate with roAudioPlayer running in the background. If the roAudioPlayer sends an event while the grid screen is visible, the album artwork get's scaled funny; this odd GridScreen behavior is in addition to the typical issues with roGridScreen that prevent normal stacking behavior.

3. When returning from the search roGridScreen to the main roGridScreen, a small delay must manually be introduced, otherwise the main grid screen get's corrupted.

4. Music must be organized in "Artist/Album/Songs" and/or "Artist/Songs" directory structure.

5. On roku firmware version 3.0, button clicks will cause gaps in audio playback. Turn Sound-Effects to "Off" if this is bothersome.

TODO

See https://github.com/maihde/roku_subsonic/issues