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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 17-07-2008: AmpJuke 0.7.4: Some suggestions implemented.
| This release of AmpJuke is mainly focused on some of the (rather good) suggestions posted in the forum.
Furthermore, releasing version 0.7.4 also marks AmpJuke's 3rd "birthday". In other words: The script has now been available for download for approximately three years.
So, as usual, here's the part of the changelog containing things related to this release:
- Password encryption.
Passwords are now md5-hashed and stored as such in the user table.
Please note that after an upgrade, and if "remember me" is turned on on the loginpage, a user is forced to login again because passwords stored in cookies needs to be md5-hashed as well.
Thanks to  wolf for suggesting this in the forum.
- 'Welcome' page improved.
The headline on each of the "boxes" on the 'welcome' page is now a link to the corresponding section/view.
F.ex., if a box is used to display recently played tracks, then clicking on the headline "Recently played tracks" will switch to the track list sorted
by tracks played recently.
Thanks to kanna for suggesting this in the forum.
- 'Jump to' improved.
When jumping to something (f.ex. albums starting w. "K"), it's also possible to jump to something (tracks, albums, performers) that starts with a digit (0..9).
Thanks to anil_mndl for suggesting this in the forum.
- Username and -password in the last.fm section in the personal settings accepts more characters.
Thanks to kanna for a reminder about this in the forum.
- Minor improvement: The utility for editing the data in the database has been improved slightly.
More information about editing in this FAQ-entry.
- Minor improvement: The functionality for showing/hiding the upload option is now the same as the functionality related to download.
Basically it's not necessary to login (again) to see the upload option, if actived on the personal settings page.
More about upload/download of music in the FAQ-entries here, here and here
If you want to see/learn more before downloading, you might want to take a look at the demo, the FAQ or perhaps just browse the forum.
Happy Birthday, AmpJuke !
//Michael.
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| 23-05-2008: AmpJuke 0.7.3: Support for m4a (sort of...)
| Huh ! This was just supposed to be a minor "ampjuke-is-still-alive-and-michael-just-turned-40" release...
However, as you can see below, it turned out that there's a large number of new/improved/fixed things in this release.
Ready ? Here we go:
- Support for the m4a music format.
...sort of... since there are - unfortunately - some limitations.
A new setting - called 'special extensions' - is introduced to handle this.
This FAQ-entry has all the important details.
With the limitations in mind, please consider this to be a "m4a support version 0.1" in AmpJuke...
...and please don't forget to check out the FAQ and/or the forum in relation to this.
Thanks to Nick and Simon ! Both of you gave the un-official release several spins and provided very valuable feedback !
- Fixed a rather serious error in upload that enabled upload of music _outside_ the 'base' folder used to store music.
This meant that a user before upload could enter something like '../../otherfolder' as the destination folder...
Thanks to don for notifying about this.
- Cool stuff: Mouseover an album or performer name, and a small image will pop up.
This is done using a simple, pure CSS-based popup image viewer.
An Amazon AWS-key and at least one last.fm profile is required, - check this FAQ-entry for details.
- New theme: "Matrix", done by cowboy. Thanks !
There are now 17 different themes available to choose from in AmpJuke.
Feel free to add your own.
- New icons: "Circular" (16x16 .png format) has been added.
There are now 7 different icon sets to choose from in AmpJuke.
Feel free to add your own.
- Restored access for anonymous users.
One of the security issues fixed in the previous version meant that
anonymous users couldn't get access (provided anonymous access is allowed in the configuration).
This is no longer the case.
- Corrected a minor inconvenience in relation to displaying what's up next.
When the last track in the playlist was being streamed, the "next playing" section showed "Random tracks".
This is no longer the case.
- Optimized for speed.
Compared to earlier releases, this version of AmpJuke has improved in terms of page load times. The 'price' to pay is increased memory consumption.
There's still some optimization to do, however.
- Fixed a small error in relation to "jump to <letter>".
Wanna learn more about AmpJuke ?
Check out the features or try out the CSS-based image viewer in the demo and perhaps decide to download AmpJuke and see how (IF...) it works on your own music collection.
//Michael.
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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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