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Running Sockso on a Server

If you want to install Sockso on a server without a GUI then you can start it up with the --nogui option, and you'll be presented with a console where you can manage everything.

Windows
$>windows.bat --nogui

Linux (and others)
$>sh linux.sh --nogui

To find out the available commands type help at the console.

For a list of other command line switches see the command line options page.

Sockso Properties

You can change Sockso's behaviour through the console by changing it's properties.

Administration Mode

If you have Sockso running in the background, maybe started via an init.d script it would be a pain to have to stop and start it so you can see the GUI to do some adminitration. So, if you're using MySQL as a backend, you have the option of starting Sockso in admin mode.

$> java -jar sockso.jar --admin --dbtype=mysql etc...

This will start up a version of Sockso without a web server so you can make changes to the process running in the background.

If you love using Sockso and would like to give a little back, try a donation to help out and support open source development.

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10th April

Sockso 1.2.4 - Patches from Will to improve HTTP/HTTPS streaming performance, and HTML compliance, improved music tree in GUI to cope with any size collections, hidden files now ignored on indexing, and some other bugs.

8th February

Sockso 1.2.3 - Fixed broken 1.2.2 release.

7th February 2010

Sockso 1.2.2 (BROKEN) - Users can now change their passwords via the web interface, added property to disable checking for the latest version, new manual scheduler, and bug fixes for quotes in track names and amazon cover fetching.

30th December

Sockso 1.2.1 - New cron scheduling support for collection scanning, streaming improvement (by mrave), and added palm pre support.

26th September

Sockso 1.2 - New faster track indexing, AAC support (by mrave), CPU usage improvements, updated Dutch translation, lots of other fixes.

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