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Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 06 Jun 2014, 15:15
by Madsonic

Dear Madsonic Community!



Today I have the best announcement ever for the Madsonic community!
I 'am really proud to present this news, Madsonic will be a company in the coming months!


A really good thing is, that the Madsonic community will be involved from the beginning.
I have decided to make Madsonic to my full time job, therefore there will be changes in many areas.

From the very beginning is Madsonic my passion and probably my fate,
so I'm going to need a lot of support and help to get the startup to the next stage.

Many new Updates, Services, Products will come around the Madsonic System!

Planed:
  • Madsonic Web-shop
  • Madsonic as Service (Hosting)
  • Madsonic Premium Services
  • Madsonic Home-Entertainment Systems
  • Madsonic Car-Entertainment Systems
  • Madsonic Network (Music Portal)
  • Madsonic native Windows App
  • Madsonic native Apple iPhone/iPad/Mac App
  • Madsonic Support for NAS Systems
  • Madsonic Support for 3rd Party APIs
  • and many more exciting things …
Infos about new Versions:

Madsonic Server 5.1

General overhaul of the Madsonic base technology:
  • Upgrade HSQLDB 1.8.0.10 -> 2.3.2 (Database)
  • Upgrade Spring Framework 2.5.6 -> 3.2.9 (Security)
  • Full Chromecast support audio/video (Streaming)
  • Major upgrade for Playlist handling
  • and many more …
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Picture Gallary Madsonic 5.1 Beta2 Gallery Link


Madsonic Client 5.6

Updates:
  • Artist Top-Tracks
  • Pandora Play mode
  • Now Playing (Server)
  • new Themes
  • and many more …

Stay tuned … for new Updates next Week.

Some first Impressions can you test with the new beta2 demo http://www.madsonic.org/demo.html



Best regards,
Madevil

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 06 Jun 2014, 18:13
by gurutech
Any updates on Facebook/Google+ integration?

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 06 Jun 2014, 19:24
by nh5
Exciting to hear! If you need any assistance let me know. Can provide you some hosting and other services if needed! Now, to check this site every 12 hours till the next release...........

Re: AW: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 06 Jun 2014, 19:53
by Madsonic
gurutech wrote:Any updates on Facebook/Google+ integration?
Hi there,

Yes good news, with the new Spring Framework the Integration is much easier with social security provider like facebook, Google, etc.

Best regards

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 06 Jun 2014, 22:24
by skopo
What means "Madsonic Car-Entertainment Systems" ?

Anyway I'm VERY EXCiTED! This is Awesome.

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 06 Jun 2014, 23:43
by crazifyngers
i'm really looking forward to this. google and facebook integration should be awesome! all i am hoping for is multi-genre is working in this release and things like AC/DC display correctly.

home entertainment support seems awesome!

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 00:29
by Madsonic
skopo wrote:What means "Madsonic Car-Entertainment Systems" ?

Anyway I'm VERY EXCiTED! This is Awesome.
Hi there,

I am very frustrated with the existing car entertainment systems available at the moment.
I would like to develop new system bundles for cars with android and Madsonic.

i appreciate every idea what is working well and what could be better. ;)

best regards

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 00:40
by Madsonic
crazifyngers wrote:i'm really looking forward to this. google and facebook integration should be awesome! all i am hoping for is multi-genre is working in this release and things like AC/DC display correctly.

home entertainment support seems awesome!
a new multi-tag system is planed, but this needs a bigger database schema update and is postponed at the moment.
Also better home entertainment support is aimed for Playstation, UPnP, XMBC, ...
BTW (AC/DC is one of my test artists) ;)

Best regards

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 03:08
by GJ51
Happy birthday! :D

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 03:17
by GJ51
Ideas?

- Make everything work with HTML5 - Flash is dead.

- Make separate transcoding definition defaults for desktop and mobile devices. *may be obsolete if html5 handles music output as ogg in the desktop player?

Now that I'm actually getting 4g connections once in a while, it would be nice to play video on my phone occasionally, but last update from Sprint killed my flash again and I haven't bothered to side load it again. Kinda was hoping that the whole "lets just move it all to html5" thing was finally gonna happen.

In any event, CONGRATULATIONS on taking the plunge setting up a business.

Keep up the great work. It's such a joy to see active development and real concern for the users. You and Daneren2005 set the standard for others to follow.

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 04:14
by daneren2005
Have you had a chance to update the API changes specific to Madsonic yet. That and can you add some type of way to identify madsonic from the REST API responses ;)

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Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 08:27
by Madsonic
GJ51 wrote:Ideas?

- Make everything work with HTML5 - Flash is dead.

- Make separate transcoding definition defaults for desktop and mobile devices. *may be obsolete if html5 handles music output as ogg in the desktop player?

Now that I'm actually getting 4g connections once in a while, it would be nice to play video on my phone occasionally, but last update from Sprint killed my flash again and I haven't bothered to side load it again. Kinda was hoping that the whole "lets just move it all to html5" thing was finally gonna happen.

In any event, CONGRATULATIONS on taking the plunge setting up a business.

Keep up the great work. It's such a joy to see active development and real concern for the users. You and Daneren2005 set the standard for others to follow.
Hi there,

Yes with Beta 2 i tried a quick implementation of the http://mediaelementjs.com media player, a better implemention is comming with beta3.

That transcoding works with all existing formats is a tricky thing. ;)

i appreciate all your support a lot !! :D

Best regards

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 11:05
by utopian
awesome news.. :D :D :D :D

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 11:36
by Madsonic
daneren2005 wrote:Have you had a chance to update the API changes specific to Madsonic yet. That and can you add some type of way to identify madsonic from the REST API responses ;)
Hi Scott,

Yes, it's nearly complete. My development computer has unfortunately suspended yesterday, Next week i will finish documentation, meanwhile i send you the 1.11.5 specification (PM).

The responde from the server looks like:

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<subsonic-response xmlns="http://madsonic.org/restapi" status="ok" version="1.12.0"></subsonic-response>
i can not move the protocol to

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<madsonic-response ..> 
it will break compatibility for all other old clients


but a possibility would be

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<subsonic-response xmlns="http://madsonic.org/restapi" status="ok" version="1.12.0" type="madsonic"></subsonic-response>
do you have any other suggestions

best regards

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 17:00
by daneren2005
The xmlns change should be enough thanks :)

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Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 18:50
by olive069
Great news especially :
Madsonic native Windows App
Madsonic native Apple iPhone/iPad/Mac App
Madsonic Support for NAS Systems
Madsonic Support for 3rd Party APIs
and many more exciting things …
Thanks Mad!!

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 01 Jul 2014, 21:20
by tycoonbob
I'm just now seeing this, but I'm excited!


Madsonic Car-Entertainment Systems
[...]

This has me the most excited though! I've been waiting for a quality double-din Android radio (4.0+) that I could run MadSonic on, but there is nothing other than crappy chinese stuff out there!

Also, if you are in need of assistance with growing your business, I would also be interested in helping out (even volunteering). I'm an IT professional by trade (systems engineer) and am making a career move into Cloud Engineering/DevOps (RHEL/CentOS, AWS, Puppet/Chef/Ansible, Splunk/Nagios, etc., etc) so I would love to be part of your project, if even only to build my own portfolio. Web hosting, MaaS (MadSonic as a Service!), etc -- I'd love to be a part!

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 02 Jul 2014, 03:58
by daneren2005
At what point will the xmlns="http://madsonic.org/restapi" be added to the standard Madsonic releases so I can start using it? Just trying to plan ahead.

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 04 Jul 2014, 08:41
by Madsonic
daneren2005 wrote:At what point will the xmlns="http://madsonic.org/restapi" be added to the standard Madsonic releases so I can start using it? Just trying to plan ahead.
Hi Scott,

I'm sorry for the lateness, but unfortunately I was very busy in the last time. :oops:

in the next 2 weeks it's planned to startup a new webpage for the REST API documentation like http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp
this should help everybody to explore new Madsonic features. :D

i don't feel very comfortable with the new JAXB portation within the subsonic 5.0 beta1. Do you have seen problems on the client side?

best regards

Re: Madsonic Newsletter 06/2014

Posted: 04 Jul 2014, 17:07
by daneren2005
I haven't noticed it causing any issues so far. I meant when is it going to be part of the REST responses, though I also did want to know about the documentation part lol. On the current 5.0 it's not there. Is it already part of the response for 5.1?

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