Ampache

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Ampache

Author:	Karl Vollmer
Developer:	Ampache Team
Latest release:	3.3.3 / January 26th, 2007
Preview release:	3.4 / Unreleased
OS:	[OS Independent]
Use:	streaming media / file manager
License:	GNU GPL/LGPL
Website:	www.ampache.org

Ampache is a Web-based Audio file manager
Ampache is a play on the two words Apache and Amplifier. It was originally written to take advantage of Apache's Mod_mp3 but has since been adapted to use its own streaming method as described in PHP Solutions - Streaming Audio the Ampache way. It is one of the oldest Applications of its kind that is still actively developed having been released in 2001. It's original author, Scott Kveton went on to create the OSUOSL at Oregon State University and passed off Developmental lead to Karl Vollmer who has been responsible for it since early 2003.

Ampache has been featured in numerous online blogs and technical articles. One of the more notable was the O'Reilly book Spidering Hacks which tested the security of online applications. Ampache was found to be immune to standard spidering hacks as described in the O'Reilly article, it has continued that trend by focusing on security during its development. The Code Philosophy listed on Ampache's wiki specifically lists security as one of those most important considerations during application development.

[edit] Distros with Ampache packages

Gentoo
ArcLinux
SUSE
Hopefully Soon Debian/Ubuntu

Description of Ampache according to Ampache.org

It is implemented with MySQL, and PHP. It allows you to view, edit, and play your audio files via the web. 
It has support for playlists, artist and album views, album art, random play, playback via Http/On the Fly
Transcoding and Downsampling, Vote based playback, Mpd and Icecast, Integrated Flash Player, as well as per 
user themes and song play tracking. You can also Link multiple Ampache servers together using XML-RPC. 
Ampache supports gettext translations and has a full translation of many languages