Requirements
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- Access to a computer with "enough" RAM (suggestion: min. 256MB) running Linux/Unix (will act like your streaming server).
- 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.
- Some (many, hopefully) music files with tag information. AmpJuke stream music in MP3, OGG, WMA and/or APE format.
- Diskspace ! As you probably already know, streaming music files can consume a lot of space.
- (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), Apache 2.2.3, MySQL 5.0.38 and PHP 5.2.1.
The actual hardware is a standard IBM NetVista 8319 workstation with 768MB RAM and a 300GB harddrive.
I have a DSL-line with an upload capacity of 1Mbit/sec.
This gives me (and potentially 2-3 others...) the freedom to enjoy music anywhere, since most of it is stored with a bitrate of 256kbit/sec.
At home I use a range of old/new PC's running different OS's (Fedora, Ubuntu, Win2K, WinXP) using popular mediaplayers (WinAmp, XMMS, Media Player, Amarok) for connecting to the server and listen to some music.
One PC is hooked up to the HIFI-equipment, which means AmpJuke becomes 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 use whatever is available (usually my own workstation)...
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 to make sure that you have valid/good tags on your music-files...
By "good" 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 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.
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