Amdroid / Ampache = Streaming iTunes library to your droid

mihalich · May 16, 2010

deftdrummer said:
Can someone tell me how this stacks up to Sunsonic media streamer? I just got that configured on my Droid and it works flawlessly! Love it

It looks like it's pretty similar in functionality. It looks a little more polished than ampache does, from a server UI perspective. The android client looks pretty similar to the ampache client.

If what you have works, stick with it.

Joe

clintiepoo · May 20, 2010

I've played with this quite a bit. I got my ampache server set up and sharing to the global internet. I used no-ip to get a free domain name, etc. It works - somewhat.

The problem is all of my music mp3s are 320 kbps (ripped from CDs on the highest setting). I'd like to downgrade them on the fly, is this possible? There's one of the settings windows that has:

one of the windows shows some transcoding options, but I can't get it to work.

deftdrummer · May 20, 2010

It's possible to change media's encoding on the fly with subsonic media streaming app. I know this doesn't help much with comanche but I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents anyways.

mihalich · May 20, 2010

I've played with this quite a bit. I got my ampache server set up and sharing to the global internet. I used no-ip to get a free domain name, etc. It works - somewhat.

The problem is all of my music mp3s are 320 kbps (ripped from CDs on the highest setting). I'd like to downgrade them on the fly, is this possible? There's one of the settings windows that has:

one of the windows shows some transcoding options, but I can't get it to work.

I'm sure there is a way to do it, but I haven't figured that out. The transcoding bitrate works perfectly when I'm converting wma or m4a to mp3. But when I turn on the mp3 to mp3 transcoding, it doesn't work...probably because no conversion is going on.

I had to turn on the mp3 to mp3 transcoding cuz some of my mp3's wouldn't play on the phone for some reason. I know they were streaming cuz someone with the palm app could play the song fine from my server. So my problem was either an issue with the android amdroid app, or something with the phone.

You might want to post that question over on the ampache forums.

Joe

clintiepoo · May 20, 2010

I got it working! Just to share, I used the instructions here:

PreCentral Forums - View Single Post - Ampache Mobile

I had to set the %SAMPLE% to 96; 128+ still worked, but only a portion of the song would play. 240 would play like 40 seconds, 128 would play 2 minutes, 96 plays it all. Unfortunately that's the best I can get to work.

Thanks guys.

Sportster · May 20, 2010

Only music streaming? I'm looking for movie or vid streaming....

drd831 · May 26, 2010

tha ampache server and get it all to work i cant figure i tout if anyone could help me that would be great

Hangdog42 · May 26, 2010

Ampache requires you to be running a web server like Apache that has PHP support. Basically you just unzip the Ampache download in a directory the web server has access to and do the appropriate configuration.

If you give us an idea of what kind of OS and web server you're running we can probably be more specific. If you've never run a web server before, you really need to read up a bit on how to do it and how to properly secure it.

clintiepoo · May 26, 2010

Any problems with buffering? I'm trying to listen to long files while driving, and if i hit a bad reception area the audio stops and there's no way to resume it... you have to restart it. Not good when you're 15 minutes into something. Is this something I can configure on the server side?

mihalich · May 26, 2010

If I hit a bad spot, my music stops too. About half the time it does restart after a while though. The UI on the amdroid app is far from optimal, and needs a crap load of work. I don't know of a way to fix the problem when in a bad reception area. Lowering the streaming bit rate might help, but not too much I'd assume.

Studpuppy26 · Mar 11, 2012

ok I set up apache on my laptop. Now I want to stream to my S2 through wifi network. the URL Ampache is givin me under its settings is Http://localhost/ampache.
:rolleyes:

is this correct cause the amdroid app still cant pic up anything? Or must put my IP adress in front of the link? example: 192.0.0.0/localhost/ampache ?

will this work?

or is there an other way of streaming music to my android phone? I dont want to listen to music on the other side of the planet. just around my home. :thinking:

Hangdog42 · Mar 13, 2012

No, http://localhost/ampache is NOT going to work from your S2. Basically you need to give your S2 a real IP address. If you're on the same wireless network as your laptop, then look at the IP address the laptop has and use that. So http://192.0.0.0/ampache . Leave the localhost out of it (that would only work from the laptop itself).

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