Ampache
Ampache is a Web-based audio file manager. It allows you to view, edit, and play your audio files via the Web. It has support for playlists, artist and album views, album art, random play, playback via HTTP with on-the-fly transcoding and downsampling, vote based playback, playback via MPD and Icecast, an integrated Flash player, and per-user themes and song play tracking. You can also link multiple Ampache servers together using XML-RPC. Ampache supports gettext translations and has full translations into many languages.
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio Players MP3 Communications File Sharing Information Management Internet Web Dynamic Content |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | PHP |
| Translations | German French Greek Italian Spanish Japanese Norwegian Russian Swedish |
Recent releases
- 25 Jun 2009 00:46
Changes: This release fixes a slew of interface and functional issues with the stable release of 3.5. Most importantly, it fixes the tag functionality in the Ampache API, as well as multiple issues with reading abnormal audio file tags.
- 06 May 2009 08:17
Changes: This version adds video streaming support. Support for multi-byte characters was corrected. The API was vastly improved. Extensive optimizations were made. Lyrics support was added. Many other minor changes and improvements were made to the user interface.
- 08 Apr 2009 12:51
Changes: This release is expected to be the final release before a stable of 3.5 sometime in the next few weeks. This version includes some minor bugfixes as well as updates to a majority of the translations.
- 16 Mar 2009 03:50
Changes: This release initiates a string freeze for the 3.5 branch. It also includes new API functionality for Democratic play and localplay, a Democratic Play configuration wizard, improved video browsing, and changes to make album art more compatible with DLNA devices.
- 08 Mar 2009 15:44
Changes: This version includes a large number of major feature additions, including IPv6 ALC entries, video, localplay control via an API, lyrics importing, ACL creation wizards, and anonymous user level access with manual admin login. This version also includes a large number of bugfixes and performance tweaks that should make many functions a little snappier, especially the verifying of an existing catalog.
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Recent commentsampache on debian
I have been a happy ampache user for a while - tried several php-based playlist managers, and nothing came even clsoe to ampache for useability.
I've just loaded it again into my latest server (debian lenny instead of ubuntu hardy - debian seems quite a lot faster and I'm sick of ubuntu upgrades breaking things) and only had one problem
- the web install asked to put the config file in /config, and I finally found out after a bit of googling that it actually meant /etc/ampache (which seems perfectly reasonable, so why didnt it just say so??)
thats the only problem I had.
Re: Bad software
> Bad software. Wasted one hour trying to
> get it
> installed on Mandrake Linux and Apache
> 2.0 (relatively
> little time, only because I'm a web /
> linux developer and
> know what I'm doing), and after all that
> pain, I could
> never login. The installation
> instructions are extremely
> terse, require you to alter your Apache
> configuration
> significantly, the configuration
> requires settings like 30
> parameters and editing two files, the
> software by
> default installs in odd paths
> (/data/ampache ?). In
> short, you have to know all sorts of
> stuff to install this,
> and it very probably still won't work
> after all that effort.
>
> If you want a web jukebox, I suggest you
> look
> elsewhere. If you're trying to
> contribute to a Web
> jukebox project, contribute to some
> other project
> instead of this. In sum, look for a
> package with easier
> installation requirements, and sane
> paths and defaults.
Well I'm not a web/linux developer. Everything I have learned about linux I learned by reading numerous article on the web. I have no formal computer training and I managed to get ampache to work on Windows XP Home Edition, Ubuntu Lamp Server, and Debian. If you go to Ampache's wiki page there are detailed instruction on how to install Ampache on several linux distributions along with instructions on how to set it up on Windows. Did you go to the Ampache Forum and ask any questions. So don't say it's bad software just because YOU the the almighty web/linux developer can't get it to work. So tell me what linux apps are you developing so I can stay away from them!!
Great software
By far the best music database/mp3 streaming software I've used so far. Installation took 15 mins, it was incredibly easy thanks to a very streamlined web-installer. Too many fantastic features to mention here. The only drawback is that it's highly id3tag-dependent. If your tags are a mess, it's going to be hard to organize your music. I used it as a chance to finally get around to retagging everything properly. :)
Highly recommended.
Re: Cataloging problem
Our Forums are a great place to find help. I'm not sure if it applies to your problem but check out
http://www.ampache.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=271
The problem mentioned in that forum post is fixed as of Ampache 3.2.2
> Can someone give me a quick explanation
> on what you do when you cant get any
> catalogs working/added? I put a
> directory of MP3s in my "docs"
> directory and tried to add with
> "./newdir" as the catalog
> location and it wont work. Ive tried
> other things too.
>
> thanks. :-)
Cataloging problem
Can someone give me a quick explanation on what you do when you cant get any catalogs working/added? I put a directory of MP3s in my "docs" directory and tried to add with "./newdir" as the catalog location and it wont work. Ive tried other things too.
thanks. :-)