Requirements

AmpJuke will run smooth and stream music perfectly even on fairly old hardware.

Please read the following as guidelines in relation to requirements:

Hardware:

Access to a Computer w. min. 500MB memory, and a CPU running not less than 800MHz.

Diskspace required by AmpJuke, plus downloaded images of performers/artists and albums is typically around 100MB for "metadata" for 10.000 tracks.

Add to that the actual diskspace consumed by your music collection. A typical album encoded in a decent quality typically consumes a little less than 100MB..

Software:

An installation of Linux/Unix. Virtually any distro will do.

(Note: Running AmpJuke on Windows - f.ex. using WAMP - might also work, but I'm NOT testing that with every release)

Apache (>2.2.x), MySQL (>5.0.xx) and PHP (>5.2.x). Versions below the mentioned might also work, but it is at your own risk, - especially in relation to PHP.

(Optional) an installation of LAME - in case you want to be able to do realtime transcoding/downsampling of the music.

Some real life facts...

I used to be a "Red Hat / Fedora kind of guy", but currently my music lives on a box that runs Linux Mint (a "derivative" of the popular Ubuntu).

The actual hardware is a standard IBM NetVista 8319 workstation with a 2.4GHz CPU, 2GB RAM and a 300GB harddrive.

I have a DSL-line with an upload capacity of 1Mbit/sec.
This gives me (and potentially 3-4 others when using downsampling...) the freedom to enjoy music anywhere.

At home I listen to music using a range of old/new PC's running different OS's (Fedora, Ubuntu, WinXP, Windows7) using various popular mediaplayers (WinAmp, XMMS, Media Player, Totem).
One PC is hooked up to the HIFI-equipment, which means I can use the AmpJuke server as a regular "CD-player"....with the huge advantage I don't have to sit and shuffle CD's to find and play music...

At work I usually use my laptop...

When I want to impress friends and family, I demonstrate AmpJuke on whatever PC's they might have...

Finally, a friendly advice...

It is highly recommended you have tagged your music-files properly!

By "properly" I mean music that is tagged without too many spell-errors, empty fields within title/artist and so on.
When scanning and importing your music into the database, AmpJuke relies completely on whats in the tags in order to import the music-information into the MySQL-database.

If you're the administrator of AmpJuke, you can correct those spelling-errors etc. after scanning all your music, but its better to get it right the first time...

Still not scared ? Well, then take a look at some screenshots, or - even better - go straight to the online demo.

16-07-2010