Versie 5.3 van Subsonic is uitgekomen. Subsonic is een opensource- en cross-platform-mediastreamer, die muziek en video's kan streamen, zowel binnen als buiten het eigen thuisnetwerk en naar verschillende gebruikers tegelijkertijd. Op de computer kan via een webbrowser toegang tot de media worden verkregen en er zijn ook apps voor onder meer Android, iOS en Windows Phone. De complete lijst met veranderingen en verbeteringen die in versie 5.3 zijn aangebracht kunnen hieronder worden gevonden.
Subsonic 5.3
New:Bugfix:
- Show sidebar by default. Remember state across sessions.
- Update Japanese translation, courtesy of Kenji Maekawa
- Update German translation, courtesy of deejay2302
- Added "Show all albums" overflow button.
REST:
- Fixed error with list of newest podcast episodes.
- Much faster artist bio.
- Display shorter artist bio.
- Add method to get newest podcast episodes.
- Improved performance of getArtists.
Subsonic 5.3.beta2
New:Bugfix:
- Allow custom URL as an alternative to *.subsonic.org
- Display proper message when visiting a non-existent or expired share.
- Added option to delete all expired shares.
- Fixed performance issue when retrieving "top songs".
Subsonic 5.3.beta1
New:Bugfix:
- Show top tracks for artist.
- Improved artist bio design.
- Redesigned podcast pages.
- Hide left frame by default, added toggle button.
- Support custom subsonic.org redirects.
- Make default album list on home screen configurable.
- Make play button behaviour configurable (Settings > Personal > Queue following songs on play)
- Improve UI when no media is found.
- Updated German translation, courtesy of deejay2302.
- Show Last.fm info even if artist name is slightly wrong
Security:
- Ensure correct playback speed for mono and high sample frequency files in jukebox mode.
- Grant access to media folders when auto-creating LDAP users.
- Improved performance for podcast channels with many (>1000) episodes.
- Chromecast stops casting before movie ends.
- Expiration date not updated when upgrading from normal to lifetime subscription.
- Starred image not shown for videos
- "Show artist info" should be turned on by default when creating new users.
- Include cover art when downloading whole album.
- Downloading png album art doesn't always work.
- Limit number of concurrent cover art requests, to avoid out-of-memory.
Sonos:
- Fixed some XSS vulnerabilities
- Log failed login attempts. Can be used by fail2ban for IP banning.
REST:
- Manage Subsonic playlists from the Sonos controller.
- Show track numbers
- Added more secure authentication scheme.
- Added getTopSongs
- Consider disc number in sorting for getAlbum
- Added original width and height for videos.
- Added album rating to getIndexes and getMusicDirectory.
- Added maxBitRate to getUser, getUsers and updateUser.
- Added license and trial expiration dates in getLicense.
- Added cover art (and original image url) for podcast channels.
- Support reverse chronological album lists.
- Improved metadata updates of ID3 albums, e.g., changing cover art.
- Add changed date to playlists.
- Avoid duplicate Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers.
