About the Subsonic API extensions category

[Tolriq]

Part of the forum to discuss Subsonic API extensions with Subsonic API users (Servers and clients)

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API extension guidelines

This forum is the place to discuss the Subsonic API extensions and future to allow the current ecosystem to keep growing despite the disappearance of the original Subsonic server. The goal is to be able to expand the Subsonic API while keeping backward compatibility with current API. Since currently not all servers supports 100% of the 1.16.1 version of the API, it will be easier to build a solution that works on top of Subsonic API and does not require version bump. This will also ease serve…

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Expanding Subsonic API

Since Subsonic is dead, the official API won’t move forward and prevent clients from being able to implement advanced things that are possible with other type of Media Providers like Plex or Emby / Jellyfin. I’d like to propose that we try to improve the situation with some of the main actors on the Subsonic compatible servers, to globally improve the Subsonic ecosystem and bring more joy to your users. And doing that without each server building their own API to keep the Subsonic ecosystem ali…

[gravelld]

In proposals, what does: Proposal status: Implemented mean? What does it mean to “implement” a proposal when you have no control over all the server implementations?

[Tolriq]

It means the majority of the servers have already implemented it.
Currently only covers search3 and type for the server name.

Just an helper for the clients to know. But this have to be refined once we decide how the new stuff is build (Extensions or rigid API)