I’ve accidentally let the SSL Certificate lapse on https://svn.ampache.org. So you may get an additional security warning when accessing it. Unfortunately I’ve realized just as I’m about to leave for 10 days. As such I will most likely not be able to fix this until after July 13th. Hopefully in the next two weeks development on 3.6 will pick back up as I’m finally catching back up on some things at work.
Sidenote – I will have about 12 hours to kill in Madrid Spain on July 11th (from ~18h00 – July 12th ~06h00). If there are any locales or otherwise Madrid aware people that can recommend something easy to get to from the airport I would like to do something besides sit for 12 hours in an airport. If you do know of something please e-mail me at vollmer@ampache.org Thanks!
Better late then never I guess. I’ve finally taken the time to finish up the 3.5.1 release. This version includes a lot of little nagging bugs that existed in the stable 3.5 release. Most importantly it corrects the issues with the API and ‘tags’ as well as some endless loops in the audio tag reading code. I would recommend that all users of 3.5 upgrade to this as soon as possible.
As for 3.6 development, hopefully I’ll get a little more done over the next week or so. However, next thursday I am heading off to GUADEC + Akademy 2009 where I’ll finally get to meet a bunch of the Amarok guys and hopefully they won’t beat me up too much. At the very least I hope to come away from Akademy with some better ideas on how to implement the API as well as maybe even some draft standardized definitions of audio/media file XML documents.
Sorry everyone that I haven’t released 3.5.1 yet, there were a few trickey bugs that I haven’t nailed down and, well other things came up. I will do everything I can to get it out before I leave on vacation this Wednesday. If it’s not out by Wednesday it will be out hopefully the end of the following week when I’m back. The changelog for 3.5.1 so far is.
The last few bugs are: improving error reporting on lack of PHP 5.3 in windows installs, pure random being sent to MPD, tweak catalog builds to try to avoid some memory/timeout issues happening due to very slow computers and one other I’ve got written down but can’t remember right now.
Give them an API and they will come… Robert (Flemming) just announced a plugin for directly interfacing Ampache with SqueezeCenter. He’s also found and helped fix numerous bugs in the API, so an all around good guy. You can find his original announcements on the ampache forums and the slimedevices forums. The plugin itself is located at code.google.com/p/ampache/squeezecenter for those too lazy to click through to his announcements.
As previously mentioned there are numerous bugs in the Tagging aspects of the 3.5 API. As such I will hopefully be releasing 3.5.1 this weekend which will include those fixes.
Libre.FM is the OpenSource Nerd Communities response to Last.FM’s progressively corporate tendencies . In order to facilitate migration over to their service they’ve made it rather trivial to add support for Libre.FM scrobbling. So! I went ahead and added it to, what will be come Ampache 3.6. Libre.FM is still under heavy development so bugs exist and you should approach it with that mindset.
2009-05-18 11:28:58 [vollmerk] (LastFM) -> Submission Successful
2009-05-18 11:28:59 [vollmerk] (LibreFM) -> Submission Successful
It’s official! a native Ampache client for the Android phones (Amdroid) written by Kevin Purdy is now on the Android Market!!. If you’ve got an android phone and would like to be able to stream music from your ampache instance anywhere go get it now! The current stable release, 3.5, is required for the use of Amdroid. Check it out!!!
This is an exciting week for Ampache. Open-Inn just published a complete interview about Ampache with Karl Vollmer about the 3.5 release and the future of Ampache. Listen in, and you’ll even learn a little bit about Nettle Beer!
Also in recent Ampache news was the addition of Ampache to Amahi as a “Turn Key” installation solution.
There have also been some exciting conversations about some changes for 3.6 on the Forums check them out.
The stable release of 3.5 includes a number of bug fixes and tweaks that were not present in 3.5-Beta2. Including the addition of the Czech translation. For those of you who haven’t been keeping up with Ampache’s 3.5 development the list of major new features since 3.4 is as follows
- Video Streaming Support
- Access Control List Wizard / Simplification
- IPv6 Support on all Access Lists and IP related operations
- Corrected Multi-Byte Character Support
- Up to date Translations in 14 different languages
- Optional Lyrics Support
- Basic Tag Support (allowing multiple genres per song)
- Countless Optimizations / Caching to speed up the interface
- Vastly Improved API with simplified configuration and setup
- Standardized UI should give users a more consistent experience
- Enable Last.FM plug-in by default
- Ability to Run Add/Verify catalog operations starting at a specific Sub Directory rather then indexing the whole catalog
- and so much more…
Over the next few days I will be updating the wiki documentation to reflect changes with 3.5. 3.4.4 is now officially end of life and will not be supported. As such development will being shortly on 3.6. This next version will focus on flushing out the new Tag support as well as replacing the old Random Play method with a Dynamic Playlist Builder. Enjoy!
As we are ever approaching a stable release of 3.5, here is yet another and hopefully the last, beta of the 3.5 branch. There are a few minor bug fixes in this release as well as updates to a majority of the languages included with ampache. There are a still a few translations that need to be updated. Please check out this beta and keep on reporting those bugs. If everything goes to plan I hope to release the stable near the end of April.
In the post 3.5 world I plan to do another ‘incremental’ update to the 3.x line of Ampache in the form of 3.6. After that I’m hoping to implement some of my crazier ideas in a 4.x branch. We will see what happens with 3.6 first though. Only time will tell!
First off many thanks to Momo-i who has been tirelessly working on many aspects of Ampache, including Multi-Byte character support and the translations. With the string freeze in effect for the 3.5 branch now is the time to translate Ampache into your native language. You can find current translation statistics in the wiki. You can also find instructions on translating Ampache in the wiki as well.
Before the stable release of 3.5 any languages which are still mostly untranslated will be removed from the release so as to not mislead users. On the note of releases, I hope to release another beta very soon. This will be the second, and hopefully last beta before a stable release sometime in late April. Keep those Bug Reports rolling in!
