Show HN: Ampache – Self-hosted personal music and video streaming server

[edent]

I live Ampache - but I've still not found a good mobile / Android client for it.

The core server is great at cataloguing my music and streaming it to the browser, but I'm struggling on mobile playback. Any one found a good player?

[greglikescode]

Have you tried dSub? It's a subsonic client but it works when you enable the subsonic api in Ampache.

Tomahawk is an interesting one, but is missing a little for me.

Honestly, I use foldersync to just d/l newly added music from my server on a routine basis and rely on dSub for when I've added something that hasn't synced.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=github.daneren...

[Nilzor]

Why doesn't vlc work?

[deng]

I love Ampache. While the web interface is not that great, it really shines with its multitude of backends: Subsonic, Plex, DAAP, UPnP/DLNA, and also WebDAV access. I'm mostly accessing Ampache via the Subsonic and UPnP backends, and it works really great. There are excellent mobile clients which work pretty much out of the box with it (DSub, BubbleUPnP).

[flarg]

Changelog - https://github.com/ampache/ampache/blob/master/docs/CHANGELO...

This is a pretty great streaming solution but last time I used it didn't deal with as many codecs as Kodi

[Artemic]

That's right but I believe both Ampache and Kodi are complementary (I'm using both, Ampache on a web server and Kodi at home) and have a quite different approach.

[uxcn]

I think the last version I used was 3.5.4, it looks like a lot changed since then. I'm glad to see MusicBrainz support got added. Ampache was definitely a nice way to organize and stream stuff.

[lamby]

Very nice. Alas, I wrote my own ghetto version of this in, gosh, 2005 and have slowly improved and changed it over the following decade into something rather bespoke and custom to my needs and thus will never get non-trivial contributions from others.

[mverwijs]

2005 eh? Well, ampache is so old, it has a freshmeat entry! ;-) http://freshmeat.net/projects/ampache

[Ace17]

A C++ / Witty alternative: https://github.com/epoupon/lms

[fargo]

is this compatible to with any of the mainstream tv systems such as amazon fire tv, apple tv etc? if not what are some good alternatives?

[greglikescode]

I still don't feel like I have a complete solution for this. You can use Plex or any subsonic client with Ampache as the backend but it doesn't seem perfect, or near-perfect, to me.

[skrowl]

No client for Android TV as far as I can tell

[fiatjaf]

Where am I supposed to store all the music? S3?

[Artemic]

I'm storing it on a personal server. S3 would be theoretically fine if you mount it as a file system but I'm not sure this would be the cheaper plan.

[auvrw]

saw this and immediately upvoted b/c i really want something a lot like this.

went to github and realized i won't use it b/c it's implemented in PHP, i probably don't want exactly what this is, and i don't want to edit/debug PHP (not on my own time, anyway).

is that myopic? anyway, that was my honest, off-the-cuff response to the post.

[PlzSnow]

Do you refuse to use any website written in PHP? How do you manage to have a normal internet life in the year 2015?

[yareally]

I don't use ruby, but that wouldn't prevent me from using gitlab.