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@xxxxxxxxxxx Thanks!

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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.

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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.

• Add missing operator on tag and rating searches so they will
  work with other methods (Thx kiehnet@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
• Fix get_art_url() so it returns something…
• Fix problem with creating new playlists where it doesn’t work
  but appending to an existing did.
• Fixed issue with url_to_song, also cleaned up the code a bit
• Fixed issue with Random All Catalogs
• Fixed issues with API and Tag methods not working as advertised
• Fix endless loop in getid3() with malformed genre tags in mp3s
• Fixed show test page always returning false on web path
• Update Man page to adhear to newer Debian rules
• Fixed issue with Videos being incorrectly registered with stats

and now playing as songs.

• Fixed missing > in HTML for song row

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.

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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.

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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

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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!!!

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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.

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