Manage and stream your music from a central server to clients connected through a LAN and/or the internet.
Focus is on easy navigation as well as speed.
If AmpJuke is unknown to you, please take a look at the features.
The best ? AmpJuke is free !
(GPL license)
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 04-04-2008: AmpJuke 0.7.2: Submit streamed music files to last.fm ("Scrobbling").
| The new release of AmpJuke (0.7.2) is available for download. This version is about the following:
- Submit music to last.fm (aka. "Scrobbling").
Fancy stuff ahead if you're a last.fm aficionado: Submit tracks to last.fm.
AmpJuke will submit music to last.fm that each user listen to. After streaming it will show up on the recently-played list and update last.fm's listening statistics.
This will happen automatically (at least one last.fm profile is required).
You can configure AmpJuke in several different ways to send recently played music to last.fm - this FAQ-entry has the details about configuration.
There's also a FAQ-entry explaining how this works for users (when enabled, it can be a personal setting).
Once again: a big "thank you" to the nice folks at  last.fm for providing such openness (as seen in the Audioscrobbler Web Services API) to the data.
- Show what's up next.
When displaying what's being played currently, AmpJuke also displays the name of the _next_ track to be streamed (or just "Random play" of you're at the end of the playlist).
This is only displayed in the "Now playing" section (not in the "pop out"), and only of your media-player isn't in the "light update" list.
Confused ?? Don't be ! Help is available in this FAQ-entry.
Sidenote: I might change this in a later release, so each user can hide/show the name of the next track to be played.
- New icons: The minimalistic "Pi Diagona" (10x10 .png format) has been added.
Feel free to add your own.
- Minor inconvenience fixed.
Added a check to see if all pictures are locally available when displaying related performers (as in: performers related to the performer displayed currently).
If not, refresh related performers from last.fm (automatically, of course).
More info. about related performers and how it works can be found in this FAQ-entry.
- Added an (unobtrusive) donation button.
Only AmpJuke administrators will see this, and furthermore it's only seen on the personal settings page.
The ads on this page doesn't even come close to cover the hosting expenses for this site...
- Improved security, again (a few words that describes a lot of work...).
This time I'll probably get off the hook from the paranoid security types out there...LOL
So go ahead and knock yourself out: Download AmpJuke, see the detailed installation example, browse the FAQ, take AmpJuke for a spin in the demo or perhaps see what's up in the forum.
//Michael.
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| 14-02-2008: AmpJuke 0.7.1: Stream related performers, XSS issue fixed and "cutoff" date introduced.
| A new release of AmpJuke is available for download.
This release covers:
- "Cutoff" date introduced.
A new option is available when setting up scan+import of (new) music: "Cutoff" date.
If/when set to a date in the past, AmpJuke will only look for+add music tracks that have been modified on or after that specific date (actually it's a UNIX timestamp).
This makes scanning+importing new music into AmpJuke really fast, compared to previous functionality (scan everything, everytime).
If you - like kanna and me - have a not-so-up-to-date system, the "cutoff" date might be invaluable for a medium to large music collection.
For more info. about the new scan-option, please consult this FAQ-entry.
- New functionality: Stream music based on related performers.
This is possible using a (brilliant) webservice from last.fm.
Just like last.fm, AmpJuke selects a random track based on a performer that's "related" to the most recently played performer.
Whether you want this or not is a personal setting, - this FAQ-entry has more information about how AmpJuke pick and stream related performers.
- When searching in previous versions of AmpJuke, there was a XSS-vulnerability which have been reported elsewhere.
XSS is (should) no longer (be) possible.
- New theme: "Kutzaray's Cool Theme".
Thanks to kutzaray for taking the time do do this.
- Minor improvements here+there.
F.ex. scan show the number of seconds used to scan - you might, by the way, want to compare scan time with a "cutoff" date against doing it without a "cutoff" date ("scan everyting")...
The FAQ has been updated and that's true for the installation example as well - the demo will be updated soon.
Next move for the AmpJuke project ? On to 0.7.2...I'll evaluate the (rather good) suggestions from the forum and see what's reasonable/possible to implement.
//Michael.
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| 15-01-2008: AmpJuke 0.7.0: Transcode streamed music and icons.
| As mentioned earlier (when releasing 0.6.0), your mother/father/family/friends may have warned you about drugs, driving with strangers and software releases with a .0 (point-oh) at the end.
Well...having tested as much as possible (i.e. taking my own medicine), I'm taking the plunge and offering AmpJuke 0.7.0 for download.
In this release, you'll get the benefit of the following:
- Realtime (on the fly) transcoding (downsampling) introduced.
Lame is required to be present on your box, if you want to do this.
You can set individual transcoding parameters for individual users, and/or completely turn off transcoding for one or more users.
This FAQ-entry has all the goofy details about configuration of transcoding, as well as some (rather) important notes in relation to this.
- Icons.
A new personal setting means you can combine themes with icons.
If you still want the 'good old' behaviour, you can select "no icons" in your personal setting, and the usual "arrow" is displayed in various places.
If you want more eye candy, please take a look at how to add more icons (in the FAQ).
- Hungarian language updated.
Thanks to Rezso for doing this.
- Estonian language updated.
Thanks to kanna for doing this in the appropriate forum-thread.
- The earlier reported error about the "disappearance" of the configured prefix for tables does no longer exist.
See the previous newsentry below.
Once again: Thanks to chs for notifying about this in the forum.
- Refreshing related performers from last.fm happens automatically.
If Displaying related performers is enabled, then a query will be made against last.fm. Of course the query will only happen if the cached list of related performers isn't available.
A few more updates exists - for details please see changelog.txt (also included in the download).
Good luck downloading/installing/upgrading, and please don't forget the Ampjuke homepage offers a comprehensive FAQ, a detailed installation example as well as a forum in order to help you with questions.
By the way: I did spend quite a lot of time updating the demo (uuh-wee)
//Michael.
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