Subsonic on Raspberry Pi 3

Written by pmd - 16 january 2018 - 8 comments

Install java:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre

Download the Subsonic .deb package and install it:

sudo dpkg -i subsonic-x.x.deb

Change user (i have set pi instead of root) :

sudo nano /etc/default/subsonic

For troubleshooting interesting files are here: /var/subsonic

It was interesting because it allowed me to understand why Subsonic web interface was OK but impossible to play a file :

cat /var/subsonic/subsonic.log

[2018-01-14 10:59:44,539] INFO TranscodeInputStream - Starting transcoder: /var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg -i /home/pi/Music/Paul Kalkbrenner - Berlin Calling/07_Paul_Kalkbrenner_-_Torted_Original Mix.mp3 -map 0:0 -b:a 128k -v 0 -f mp3 -

[2018-01-14 10:59:44,551] INFO InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) /var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg: 1: /var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

It was a problem linked with ffmpeg. I think the problem comes from the fact that ffmpeg given in deb is made for ubuntu/debian but probably not ARM processor. THis is why I install ffmpeg from repository and then linked Subsonic folder to this ffmpeg freshly installed:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

sudo rm /var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ffmpeg /var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg

Restart Subsonic:

sudo service subsonic restart

Configure Subsonic using web interface and admin account.

It worked! I could play my music from Astana, Kazakhstan while it was actually stocked in my Raspberry in Paris!

In my opinion it works quiet nice! Not laggy I mean.

8 comments

#1 sunday 14 october 2018 - 02:30 - Patrick Asmus said :

Thank You! It works fine! :-)

#2 monday 08 april 2019 - 23:16 - Peter Jones said :

Thank you so much for this. I had been having this issue for a few days and had run out of ideas. Very much appreciated!

#3 tuesday 03 september 2019 - 20:42 - Kristian S said :

Thanks works just fine!

#4 tuesday 03 september 2019 - 21:41 - Luca said :

Thank you, works perfect with Raspberry Pi 4.

#5 friday 24 january 2020 - 08:26 - shimarin said :

I think the bit about ffmpeg fixed my problem. I also replaced lame since that was in the transcode directory as well.

#6 sunday 20 september 2020 - 14:17 - petrus said :

excellent. thank you. this had been a problem for a while.

#7 tuesday 15 december 2020 - 12:37 - Jason said :

Thank you for this, now it's running as it should! :)

#8 saturday 27 march 2021 - 06:53 - Mackeral said :

thanks a lot for this

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