About Ampache

Ampache is a Web-based Audio file manager. It is implemented with MySQL, and PHP. 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/On the Fly Transcoding and Downsampling, Vote based playback, Mpd and Icecast, Integrated Flash Player, as well as per user themes and song play tracking. You can also Link multiple Ampache servers togeather using XML-RPC. Ampache supports GETTEXT translations and has a full translation of many languages

Recent News

05.12.2008 Ampache 3.4 Stable Released and a new Logo

Better late then never, the stable release of 3.4 has been released. You can download it here. This release is a little over year in the making. It involved a complete rewrite of Ampache into native PHP5 code in addition to a completely new interface created by Spocky. All 3.3.x themes are incompatible with the 3.4 branch. However it ships with two themes shown below and there are already two user created themes available from the themes section Classic (Official) Greysme (Official) BlueFlower (User) Vegas (User) New Logo Along with the 3.4 Release I'd like to introduce a new Logo. Fraz has served me well for the last few years, but it's time for something new. The logo I've chosen was created by Agnès Champavier. I will be shutting down the Cafepress store that contains all of the old logos and getting new shirts printed locally. Once they've been done I will post more information. Thanks again to everyone who e-mailed me a potential logo. As I stated in the forum post the top 3 people will receive a free shirt with the new logo. I will also be working the new logo in to various parts of the site over the next few weeks. - Karl Vollmer

03.16.2008 Ampache 3.4-Beta2 Released

As promised 3.4-Beta2 has been released, get it while it's hot. Beta2 has some sweeping charset related changes. In order to generate valid XML files the charset of the filenames and song fields are now strictly enforced. A helper script, fix_filenames.inc, is now included in /bin. This script will by default look for filenames that do not match your charset defined in ampache and prompt you to rename them. Democratic play has been flushed out and is now feature complete. There are still some UI enhancements to be made in regards to the democratic play functions but everything should work. Speed improvements were made across the board. There is still a lot of optimization to do before the stable release. The XML API has a large number of additional fields and valid queries to accommodate the needs to some of the users of the API. There will be a 3rd Beta of 3.4..The hopeful release date of Beta3 is sometime mid April. After that I plan on releasing the stable of 3.4 on May 5th, on the day Ampache turns 7 years old. We will see if I can pull it off. I will be taking vacation from March 22nd through the 28th but hopefully I can cram enough Ampache work around that to meet these deadlines. I would like to get a simplified version of the current Ampache Logo done. If any graphic artists would like to take a swing and creating a new 'Fraz' for ampache please submit a low and high-rez photo to the Make a new Fraz Logo forum post. The top three submissions will receive a free shirt with the new design (International Shipping not a problem). - Karl Vollmer

03.13.2008 Progress and Next Beta

Progress is being made again on the next beta of 3.4. I hope to have a release this weekend. Beta2 will have all of the major functionality I plan for the stable release in it's final form, minus future bug-fixes. There have been a lot of additions to the XML API and a lot of new applications using the API. Although these applications may not have a stable release below is the quick and short list Amarok 2 Service Coherence - UPNP A/V MediaServer Rhythmbox - URL Unknown QuickPlay - Simple Python Player Hopefully sometime in the next week or so I'll be adding an additional page that lists all of the known applications that can use Ampache's API. That's it for now, keep an eye out for a release this weekend. - Karl Vollmer

01.29.2008 Slow Progress...

Hello all, It's been a long time since I've posted or made any substantial progress on Ampache. I've got quite a few things at work keeping me busy, thankfully most of them should be resolved by the first week or so of March. In the mean time I've got a few announcements, First off thanks to Flashk who has contributed a good bit of work to Ampache recently. Second I'm going to tentatively set a goal of the 3.4 Stable release on Ampache's seven year birthday, only 3 more years and Ampache will have been around for a decade! As always thanks to everyone who has submitted bug reports and patches they are very helpful, keep them coming. When reporting a bug for the development version please always make sure that you upgrade to the latest version as it's likely it's been fixed. Thanks! - Karl Vollmer