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Posted on 2015-07-26 by Nick Thomas
Subsonic is a reasonably neat "personal cloud" sort of thing for playing music.
In many ways, it replicates the Owncloud Music application. I'm a fan of that
too, but switched to Subsonic once it became clear that upgrading OC would
always be a trial. Unfortunately, although Subsonic is open-source, it includes
a bunch of money-making "premium" stuff backed by a licensing scheme. This
includes nagware, etc.
With an open-source project, you can just fork it and release a version with all
that crap removed, of course, and that's precisely what
`@EugeneKay` has done:
As the patch notes, the licensing scheme is fairly hilariously simple: the
license "key" is just the md5sum of the email address; a remote HTTP server
is looked up over DNS and queried to see if that license is on a central DB and,
if it is, whether it has expired.
So in `/etc/hosts`:
127.0.0.1 subsonic.org
In `/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/subsonic.org.conf`:
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name subsonic.org;
location /backend/validateLicense.view {
return 200 "true\n2068585481000\n";
}
location / {
proxy_pass http://66.49.215.227;
}
}
(I've not actually tested the proxy_pass but I imagine it'll work).
Then in the Subsonic licensing box:
Email: foo@example.com Key: b48def645758b95537d4424c84d1a9ff
So, no need to maintain a separate fork after all. Beautiful.
Questions? Comments? Criticisms? Contact the author by email: gemini@ur.gs
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