Ampache – For the love of music

I have recently rebuilt my main linux box. Moved to SuSE Linux rather than RedHat. The reason was that RedHat killed off RedHat Linux, and moved to Fedora. If they want to upset me I will get rid of them. I have been using Redhat for a LONG time and I am disappointed to move. But there are some things that have to be done. And from what I could see, SuSE was the best of the commercial distributions.

Anyway one of the reasons for moving the Linux box was to create a new document repository. That is place my scanned documents online and also my music. By online, I mean firewalled so that I can use things inside the house. A fileserver. Anyway I was looking for a way to serve the music, so I did a search on the SuSE disks for MP3.

On SuSE I found %5BA%5D m p a c h e %3A For the love of music since May 5th 2001. Ampache looks as if it will be good when it gets some more development done. There are some things missing that Gomp has, but overall it looks great.

What it is missing seems to be streaming capability with management of the queue. I am sure that this will come. But that is not there yet. Also missing in voting on good and bad songs. Also, since the data import uses MP3 tags, I think I will need to re-rip my CD collection.

I did have a bit of fun getting the software to run. I needed to comment out line 348 of libglue/auth.php which was @mysql_close($mysql_link);