This release fixes some bugs introduced in the last release as well as some significant improvements / fixes for the localplay methods. Catalog size calculation was also corrected for larger catalogs. It should now work for up to 4TB catalogs. New installations of 3.5.4 will include an additional two default ACLs for API use.
3.5.3 has been released and includes multiple non-critical security fixes. All previous versions of Ampache are affected. It is recommended that all users upgrade to 3.5.3 as soon as possible.
All good things come to those who wait, and this is definitely one of those good things. Ampache 3.5.2 has finally been released. This version fixes a large number of bugs found in the API by various other developers. A big thanks to all of you who submitted bug reports. There are also some improvements to the handling of damaged audio files. They will now be put under their own album “Unknown (Broken)” rather then being lumped with the “Unknown (Orphaned)” files. This version also includes an amazing new theme called Penguin.
You’ll notice that a lot of the elements have been moved around, behold the power of CSS! Hopefully this theme is an inspiration to others of just how much you can change. Enjoy!
Long time no post, however I am not dead… Though I was kayaking in 18′ waves the other day so some may argue that I am trying to remedy that problem. I am currently attending NLUUG’s fall conference in Ede, NL where I just gave a talk on Open APIs and Ampache.
Since my last posting there has been a new addition to the default theme list of Ampache, as well as some more work on 3.5.2 and 3.6. I do not know when either one of the two will be finished but rest assured as the weather worsens I will be spending less time in Kayaks trying to get myself killed, and more time working on Ampache so things should speed up. 3.5.2 Should fix a few remaining issues with the API as well as some other misc issues. Keep your eyes pealed for the next release.
When it rains it pours. I was contacted by Bryce who has also created a Palm Pre client for Ampache, but had been waiting to release until he’d gotten a few more features done. My recent post has prompted him to throw it out into the public eye. It’s yet another amazing interface, and great way to access your personal music collection from anywhere you’ve got celluar service. Check it out!
A new native Ampache client for the Palm Pre called AmpachePre has been released by fain. It looks pretty impressive. Those of you with Palm devices should check it out, great way to access your music on the road.
Not to be outshown, the Android client Amdroid has been seeing some 3rd party updates Hopefully these will soon be integrated into upstream, but if you can’t wait go ahead and check them out.
People are constantly asking where the Iphone client is. You can find the latest copy of code I have at amphone.ampache.org. This code does not work, however it should be a good start for someone who wants to flush out a Iphone client for Ampache. Once that’s done the only remaining market would be the creation of a Windows Mobile client, any takers?
Better late then never, but I’ve finally gotten around to updating the certificate for svn.ampache.org. I’m still using cacert.org So if you get a warning, it’s to be expected. As for progress on ampache, I must appologize profusly for not really getting anything done, the weather has been so nice that I’ve spending all of my spare time outside. As the weather gets colder I’ll have more indoor time to work on ampache I promise!
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.
and now playing as songs.
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.