Wednesday, August 04, 2010

HOWTO : Favourite songs anywhere with Subsonic, Ubuntu and Android

Subsonic is a Music Streamer that running on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. Smarthphone such as Android and iPhone are also supported. You can even stream your songs over internet. You can control and listen your songs via your javascript enabled browser.

It is the excellent music streamer that I can found in the market. It runs very smoothly and flawlessly on 3G mobile network. However, it is not iTune (or DAAP) compatible.

Installation and setting up of Subsonic on computer and smartphone are very easy and user-friendly.

You can find valuable information for Subsonic on the official site.

Installation of Subsonic - Server side

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre lame flac faad vorbis-tools ffmpeg


wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/subsonic/files/subsonic/4.0.1/subsonic-4.0.1.deb/download

sudo dpkg -i subsonic-4.0.1.deb

*the current version is 4.0.1 at this time of writing.

Installation of Subsonic - Client side

Go to the "Market" on your Android smartphone and search for "Subsonic Music Streamer".

Setting up of Subsonic with browser

http://server_ip:4040

or

http://localhost:4040

username and password are both "admin".

Follows the instruction on the official site at here.

Enjoy!

That's all! See you.