This will patch Subsonic 4.9 to change the default view from Random to Recently Added

change-default-subsonic-view-from-random-to-new.sh

mkdir workspace
cd workspace
sudo cp /usr/share/subsonic/subsonic.war /usr/share/subsonic/subsonic.war.orig
unzip /usr/share/subsonic/subsonic.war
dos2unix WEB-INF/jsp/top.jsp    # These dos2unix and unix2dos steps are needed because the files have DOS
dos2unix WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp  # line endings and the patches, if copy/pasted have UNIX line endings
cat > change-default-view-to-newest.patch <<'End-of-message'
diff -ru orig/WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp new/WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp
--- orig/WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp  2014-01-23 23:07:04.000000000 -0800
+++ new/WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp 2014-08-11 09:59:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
         <frameset rows="75%,25%" border="0" framespacing="0" frameborder="0">
             <frameset cols="*,${model.showRight ? 235 : 0}" border="0" framespacing="0" frameborder="0">
-                <frame name="main" src="nowPlaying.view?" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" class="bgcolor1">
+                <frame name="main" src="home.view?listSize=10&listType=newest" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" class="bgcolor1">
                 <frame name="right" src="right.view?" class="bgcolor1">
             </frameset>
             <frame name="playQueue" src="playQueue.view?" class="bgcolor2">
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@
 
 </frameset>
 
-</html>
\ No newline at end of file
+</html>
diff -ru orig/WEB-INF/jsp/top.jsp new/WEB-INF/jsp/top.jsp
--- orig/WEB-INF/jsp/top.jsp  2013-12-14 22:24:56.000000000 -0800
+++ new/WEB-INF/jsp/top.jsp 2014-08-11 09:59:56.000000000 -0700
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
             <a href="help.view?" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="logoImage"/>" title="${help}" alt=""></a>
         </td>
         <td style="min-width:4em;padding-right:2em;text-align: center">
-            <a href="home.view?" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="homeImage"/>" title="${home}" alt="${home}"></a>
-            <div class="topHeader"><a href="home.view?" target="main">${home}</a></div>
+            <a href="home.view?listSize=10&listType=newest" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="homeImage"/>" title="${home}" alt="${home}"></a>
+            <div class="topHeader"><a href="home.view?listSize=10&listType=newest" target="main">${home}</a></div>
         </td>
         <td style="min-width:4em;padding-right:2em;text-align: center">
             <a href="nowPlaying.view?" target="main"><img src="<spring:theme code="nowPlayingImage"/>" title="${nowPlaying}" alt="${nowPlaying}"></a>
@@ -100,4 +100,4 @@
 
     </tr></table>
 
-</body></html>
\ No newline at end of file
+</body></html>
End-of-message
patch -p1 -i change-default-view-to-newest.patch && rm change-default-view-to-newest.patch
unix2dos WEB-INF/jsp/top.jsp
unix2dos WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp
sudo /sbin/service subsonic stop
sudo zip -r /usr/share/subsonic/subsonic.war ./
sudo /sbin/service subsonic start

Tested and works on

• Subsonic 4.9
• Subsonic 5.0