Any program that can handle M3U-playlists (ie. WinAmp or Microsoft Media Player) can play streams.
AmpJuke can either play music right away or builds a "queue" of tracks to be played and/or merge albums, performers, tracks, favorites into the existing queue.
It can work via a LAN or the Internet.
Besides music streaming the script can fetch album covers/images/lyrics automatically using various web services from Last.fm, Bing! and others.
Here are some key features of "AmpJuke":
· Easy installation.
· Scan and import information (tags) from music files to a MySQL-database.
· Music files can (should) be stored outside 'doc-root' in any folder+subfolders.
· Automatically send listening statistics to last.fm. No plugin is needed.
· Upload music.
· Download music.
· Retrieve and display biographies for artists/performers and albums.
· Any mediaplayer that "understand" the .m3u-playlist format, can play the streamed music...or just use the flash player...or a combination.
· Retrieve and store album covers automatically using a webservice from last.fm, and/or
· Random play with various options for "fair" rotation of tracks.
· Display related performers using webservice from last.fm.
· Stream music from related performers (similar to functionality found @ last.fm).
· Manage music using personal favorite lists.
· Share favorites with other users.
· Downsample (transcode) music in realtime to a lower bitrate using LAME.
· Show what's playing right now and what's up next.
· Themes, icons and several languages makes the 'look and feel' of AmpJuke a matter of personal preference.
· Display lyrics for virtually any song in your collection.
· Edit track-, performer- and/or album-information.
· Automatically block IP-adresses that fails to authenticate a number of times.
Requirements:
· min. 256MB RAM
· Apache (>2.2.x), MySQL (>5.0.xx) and PHP (>5.2.x).
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Introduced: jQuery.
· New feature: Edit tags on files.
· Improved: Random play.
· Information: GetID3 version 1.9.
· Language updates.
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