Software Update: Subsonic 5.0 Beta 2

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Subsonic is an open source and cross-platform media streamer, which can stream music and videos both inside and outside your own home network and to multiple users at the same time. On computer, the media can be accessed via a web browser and there are also apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone, among others. The latest stable version is 4.9 and version 5.0 is in development. The changelog below is from version 5.0 beta 2.

New:

  • Support casting to remote Chromecasts (requires *.subsonic.org address)
  • Added video bitrate selector.
  • Make DLNA media server name configurable.
  • Updated Czech translation, courtesy of Trottel.
  • Enable compression for XML, JSON and JSONP in the REST API
  • Set X-Content-Duration to support opus encoding.

bug fix:

  • Fixed problem with whole tab being sent to Chromecast rather than just the video.
  • Access-Control-Allow-Origin header sometimes missing in REST responses.
  • Fixed DLNA recursion bug.
  • Fixed mixed content errors when changing cover art, and using https (courtesy of daneren2005)
  • Fixed errors on certain podcast feeds where they were being incorrectly labeled as video files (courtesy of daneren2005)
  • Updated ffmpeg commands to fix some transcoding issues.
  • Fixed bug in REST method changePassword
  • Avoid creating duplicate players when switching from Chromecast to local.

Version number 5.0 beta 2
Release status beta
Operating systems Windows 7, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Vista, Windows 8
Website subsonic
Download http://www.subsonic.org/pages/download.jsp
File size

47.70MB

License type GPL
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