Ampache: web-based music archival and playback

Ampache is a cross-platform web-based music system that is built upon a web server, the PHP language, and a MySQL database.

Some of Ampache's features include:

• Maintenance of a large music catalog.
• Grouping of music by artist, genre, album, and more.
• Display of Album artwork, song titles, and other data.
• The ability to create, manage and import playlists.
• Random play capabilities.
• Display of music that is currently playing.
• Display of site and music statistics.
• The ability to search for song titles.
• Account-based user access programmed with security in mind.
• Administration of users, music catalog, site preferences, and access lists.
• Supports multiple display themes.
• Offers multi-language support.

The Ampache online forums offer useful installation, development and deployment information, the traffic volume indicates a healthy open-source project. The Ampache Gallery shows many of the Ampache capabilities, while the online demo lets you try some of the software's capabilities out. For useful information on using and installing Ampache, take a look at the project FAQ.

Stable version 3.3.1 of Ampache was announced this week. "For those of you upgrading from 3.3.0 there are a few major changes in this new version. First I have moved all of the documents out of /docs and into the root. Second Themeing has been added to Ampache. The stable release ships with three themes. You can find more at svn.ampache.org/contrib/themes. Support for MPC and SPX files has also been added along with a Turkish Translation." See the change log for more details. Version 3.3.1.1 followed, it fixes one minor bug.

If you have a large music collection to manage, and want to share it across different machines, Ampache is the right tool for the job. The software is available for download here.

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