Ampache

Ampache is an open source and web-based application written in PHP and designed for managing, updating and playing your MP3/OGG/RM files via a web interface.

With Ampache, users will be able to save playlists, create user accounts, and share their entire music collection with other Ampache users. Keep in mind though that Ampache is not a media organizer.

In order to run properly, the project requires a web server, such as Apache, lighttpd, nginx or IIS. Moreover, it requires MySQL 5.x, PHP 5.3 or greater, as well as the following PHP modules: PDO, PDO_MYSQL, hash, session, and json.

What is new in this release:

• Added Portuguese (Brasil) language (thanks Ione Souza Junior)
• Updated PHPMailer version to 5.2.10
• Fixed user stats clear
• Added user, followers and last shouts XML API functions
• Fixed transcoded process end on some systems (thanks nan4k7)
• Added ogg channel streaming support (thanks Deathcow)
• Fixed sql connection close before stream (thanks fufroma)
• Added support for several ldap filters (thanks T-Rock)
• Fixed 'Add to existing playlist' button on web player (thanks RyanCopley)
• Added 'add to existing playlist' link on album page (thanks RyanCopley)
• Added option to hide user fullname from other users
• Added playlist track information in Apache XML API (thanks RyanCopley)
• Fixed playlist remove song in Apache XML API (thanks RyanCopley)
• Fixed SubSonic API ifModifiedSince information
• Added Podcast links to albums / artists
• Added Piwik and Google Analytics plugins
• Added Apache 2.4 access control declaration in htaccess files
• Fixed performance issues on user preferences
• Added artist search by year and place
• Fixed search by comment (thanks malkavi)
• Added Paypal and Flattr plugins
• Added .maintenance page
• Fixed captcha
• Added private messages between users
• Fixed SubSonic API rating information on albums and songs
• Added latest artists and shouts RSS feeds
• Fixed tag cloud ordering
• Added Label entities associated to artists / users
• Added WebDAV backend
• Fixed SubSonic API requests with musicFolderId parameter (thanks dhsc19)
• Added footer text edition setting
• Added uploaded artist list on user page
• Added custom Ampache login logo and favicon support
• Added edition support on shared objects (thanks dhsc19)
• Fixed share feature on videos (thanks RobertoCarlo)
• Removed album year display from album name if unset
• Fixed Subsonic API Album/Artist song's link (thanks dhsc19 and daneren2005)
• Added mysql database socket authentication support on web setup (thanks AsavarTzeth)
• Fixed artist art url for mobile use (thanks dhsc19)
• Added Shoutbox home plugin
• Added catalog favorites home plugin
• Fixed search by rating (thanks iamnumbersix)
• Added UPnP localplay (thanks SeregaPru)
• Changed preferences to return the global value if preference is missing for the searched user
• Fixed special chars in songs names and tags (thanks SeregaPru)
• Fixed Subsonic API playlist edition/delation (thanks dhsc19)
• Fixed integer default value in Apache XML API
• Fixed image thumb on webplayer and search preview (thanks RobertoCarlo and eephyne)
• Fixed proxy setting on all external http requests (thanks brendankearney)
• Added QRCode view of user API key
• Fixed http status code on Subsonic API streams when using curl (thanks nicklan)
• Added Server-Sent Events on catalog actions
• Added option to enable/disable channel and live stream features
• Removed official PHP 5.3 support
• Added option to show/hide footer statistics (thanks brownl)
• Added delete from disk option on user uploaded files
• Added installation type and players helper at installation process
• Added tv_episode tag on quicktime files (thanks wagnered)
• Added new option to disable deferred extended metadata, e.g. artist details
• Added Subsonic API getAvatar function
• Fixed unsynced lyrics tags
• Fixed ldap_filter setting deactivation on ampache.cfg.php update (thanks Rouzax)
• Added Subsonic API similar artists & songs functions
• Added Subsonic API getLyrics function
• Fixed disk number and album artist metadata on quicktime files (thanks JoeDat)
• Fixed Ampache API playlist_add_song function
• Added ability to store images on disk
• Added new setting to define album art min and max width/height
• Fixed Subsonic API getAlbum returned artist id on songs
• Fixed Subsonic API cover art when PHP-GD unavailable
• Fixed localplay playlist refresh on volume changes (thanks essagl)
• Fixed web player equalizer option if visualizer is not enabled (thanks brownl)
• Fixed asx file mime type (thanks thinca)
• Added song genre parsing options (thanks Razrael and lotan)
• Added sort on languages list (thanks brownl)
• Added placeholder text to search box (thanks brownl)
• Added web player Play Next feature (thanks tan-ce)
• Fixed Plex backend administration page uri (thanks a9k)
• Fixed expired shared objects clean (thanks eephyne)
• Added missing artist search results (thanks bliptec)
• Fixed song genre id parsing (thanks lotan)
• Added Scrobble method to Subsonic API
• Added an option to add tags to child without overwriting
• Added image dimension info to image tables (thanks tsquare66)
• Replaced ArchiveLib by StreamZip-PHP to avoid temporary zip file
• Added Year field in song details and edition
• Added Subsonic API create/delete user, jukebox control and search auto suggestion
• Added few optional install tests
• Improved Share features with modal dialog choices
• Added new action on playlists to remove duplicates
• Fixed playlist addition to another playlist (thanks kszulc)
• Fixed Various Artist link on album page (thanks Jucgshu)
• Added session_destroy call when a session should be destroyed
• Added HTML5 ReplayGain track feature
• Added display and mandatory user registration fields settings
• Added .htaccess IfModule mod_access.c directives
• Fixed SmartPlayer results per user (thanks nakinigit)
• Fixed XSS vulnerability CVE-2014-8620 (thanks g0blin)
• Fixed playlist import setting on catalog update to be disabled by default (thanks DaPike)
• Added ability to browse my tags other library items than songs
• Added Stream Control plugins
• Added transcode settings per player type
• Added ability to write directly the new configuration file when it version changed
• Added quick play url to have permanent authenticated stream link without session
• Fixed unresponsive website on batch download (thanks Rouzax)
• Added batch download item granularity
• Fixed 'guest' user site rendering
• Added Aurora.js support in webplayer
• Added Google Maps geolocation analyze plugin
• Added statistical graphs
• Added user geolocation
• Added 'Missing Artist' search
• Fixed Ampache installation with FastCGI
• Added a new RSS Feed plugin
• Added a new 'display home' plugin type
• Added Favorite and Rating features to playlists
• Added user feedback near mouse cursor on democratic votes
• Changed header page position to be fixed
• Added external links on song page details
• Fixed Subsonic API getAlbumList2 byGenre and byYear order (thanks rrjk)
• Added html5 desktop notification
• Added album group order setting
• Fixed unwanted album merge when one of the album doesn't have mbid
• Changed video player to go outside the footer
• Added ip address in authentication failure for fail2ban scripts (thanks popindavibe)
• Added parameter to hide directplay button if number of items is above a limit
• Added Tag split (thanks jcwmoore)
• Fixed album/artist arts and stats migration on rename (thanks jcwmoore)
• Fixed get lyrics from files (thanks apastuszak)
• Fixed verify local catalog (thanks JoeDat)
• Removed Twitter code
• Added optional cookie disclaimer for the EU Cookie Law
• Replaced catalog action links to action dropdown list (thanks Psy-Virus)
• Fixed remember me feature (thanks ainola)
• Added email when registered user must be enabled by administrators
• Fixed local catalog clean on Windows (thanks Rouzax)
• Added Subsonic API maxBitRate parameter support (thanks philipl)
• Fixed SubSonic API special characters encode (thanks nan4k7)
• Added Beets local and remote catalog support (thanks Razrael)
• Fixed XML error code returned with invalid Ampache API handshake (thanks funkygaddafi)
• Replaced iframe to Ajax dynamic page loading
• Changed Albums of the moment to not necessarily have a cover
• Added Plex backend items edition support
• Added hls stream support
• Added X-Content-Duration header support on streams
• Removed Toogle Art from artist page
• Fixed track numbers when removing a song from playlist (thanks stonie08)
• Added Plex backend playlist support
• Added gather art from video files (thanks wagnered)
• Added Plex backend movie / tvshow support
• Added release group on albums
• Added Smart Playlist songs list
• Added zlib test
• Removed old Ampache themes
• Fixed SubSonic API lastModified element (thanks bikkuri10)
• Disabled beautiful url on XML-API for retro-compatibility
• Fixed image resource allocation (thanks greengeek1)
• Added setting to write id3 metadata to files (thanks tsquare66)
• Added check for large files manipulation
• Added video subtitle support
• Fixed Google arts to use real arts and not the small size preview
• Added Tmdb metadata plugin
• Added Omdb metadata plugin
• Added Music Clips, Movies and TV Shows support
• Added media type information on catalog
• Fixed get SmartPlaylist in XML-API (thanks opencrf)
• Added beautiful url on arts
• Improved browse list header (thanks Psy-Virus)
• Fixed user online/offline information on Reborn theme (thanks thorsforge)
• Added UPnP backend (thanks SeregaPru)
• Added DAAP backend
• Added sort options on playlists (thanks Shdwdrgn)
• Fixed XML-API tag information (thanks jcwmoore)
• Fixed multiple broadcast play (thanks uk3gaus)
• Added SmartPlaylists to Subsonic API
• Added limit option on SmartPlaylists
• Added random option on SmartPlaylists
• Added 'item count' on browse
• Added direct typed links on items tags
• Fixed SubSonic API compatibility with few players requesting information on library -1
• Added license information on songs
• Added upload feature on web interface
• Added albumartist information on songs (thanks tsquare66)
• Fixed errors on sql table exists check
• Fixed play/pause on broadcasts (thanks uk3gaus)
• Added donation button
• Added democratic page automatic refresh
• Fixed distinct random albums
• Added collapsing menu (thanks Kaivo)
• Added 'save to playlist' feature on web player (thanks Kaivo)
• Added tag merge feature
• Fixed democratic vote with automatic logins (thanks M4DM4NZ)
• Added git pull update from web interface for development versions
• Fixed http-rang requests on streaming (thanks thejk)
• Improved installation process
• Improved French translation (thanks arnaudbey)
• Improved German translation (thanks Psy-Virus and meandor)

What is new in version 3.5.4 / 3.6 Alpha 6:

• New search and random methods were added.
• Various bugs were fixed.

What is new in version 3.5.4:

• This release fixes some bugs introduced in the last release as well as some significant improvements / fixes for the localplay methods. Catalog size calculation was also corrected for larger catalogs. It should now work for up to 4TB catalogs. New installations of 3.5.4 will include an additional two default ACLs for API use.

What is new in version 3.5.1:

• Add missing operator on tag and rating searches so they will work with other methods (Thx kiehnet@netscape.net)
• Fix get_art_url() so it returns something...
• Fix problem with creating new playlists where it doesn't work but appending to an existing did.
• Fixed issue with url_to_song, also cleaned up the code a bit
• Fixed issue with Random All Catalogs
• Fixed issues with API and Tag methods not working as advertised
• Fix endless loop in getid3() with malformed genre tags in mp3s
• Fixed show test page always returning false on web path
• Update Man page to adhear to newer Debian rules
• Fixed issue with Videos being incorrectly registered with stats
• Fixed missing > in HTML for song row

What is new in version 3.5:

• Video Streaming Support
• Access Control List Wizard / Simplification
• IPv6 Support on all Access Lists and IP related operations
• Corrected Multi-Byte Character Support
• Up to date Translations in 14 different languages
• Optional Lyrics Support
• Basic Tag Support (allowing multiple genres per song)
• Countless Optomizations / Caching to speed up the interface
• Vastly Improved API with simplified configuration and setup
• Standardized UI should give users a more consistent experience
• Enable Last.FM plug-in by default
• Ability to Run Add/Verify catalog operations starting at a specific Sub Directory rather then indexing the whole catalog

What is new in version 3.5 Beta 1:

• 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.

What is new in version 3.5 Alpha 2:

• 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.

What is new in version 3.5 Alpha 1:

• Genres have been removed and replaced with the concept of tags.
• A single song, album, artist can now have many genres (tags) associated with it.
• A caching system has been introduced, which drastically reduces the number of queries made against the database.
• There have also been major changes to the API's authentication method.
• All passwords, including the API's are now encoded with SHA256().

What is new in version 3.4.4:

• This release fixes a potential fread() error if you seek to the end of the file, and corrects issues with HTTPS and Democratic play.
• It improves error messages during installation, and updates the default language based on the one chosen during installation.

What is new in version 3.4.3:

• This release addresses a non-critical security issue due to unsafe creation of temporary files by a shell script included with, but not used by, the application.
• It also fixes a few other minor bugs and adds the ability to install Ampache without full rights on your database server (Hosted Solutions).

Requirements:

• Apache
• PHP
• MySQL Enterprise Edition