ampache6 for users
This page will cover some of the visual and feature changes you'll see in Ampache6
For information about Admin and backend changes check out Ampache6 for Admins
As an Ampache user, it might not seem like a lot has changed.
So let's start with probably the biggest user facing change you'll see.
Previously, Ampache would run searches based on the user running the search.
For example the rule 'My Rating' was always you and 'Another User' allowed you to search for different user ratings.
So in Ampache5 if I make a playlist called "Lachlan's awesome mix" and then my friend opens the list, the rules are applied using the person opening the list and not me.
When a user owns the playlist, it will always make searches using their user ID instead of yours.
As an example lets look at this playlist. The playlist is owned by a user called tom.
Tom has shared this playlist with me and When I load it up I can see his 4/5 star rated songs.
In Ampache5 you had to make sure your searches were explicitly naming the user. Otherwise, I'd have gotten a list of my 4/5 star artists.
If the playlist is owned by the System user, the results will function the same way as before and use your user for the results.
Think of the system playlists as a public shared list which no specific owner.
For albums that have been duplicated in your library there is now an additional column for version called Release Comment.
This field looks for the tag Version.
Now that you have this tag set you can hide or show the release comment using Show Album subtitle on links (if available)
This will allow you to identify Weezer albums without having to pull your hair out
A stream token can be added to your account by an admin from the edit user pages.
This allows streams without the risk of the session expiring by using a static token.
When you have a stream token all Democratic, Song, Podcast Episode and Video Streams will use this token.
This token does not allow a user to do anything except stream music so don't worry about it being used to access your account.
Ampache has always had a semi correct Subsonic implementation. Now in Ampache6 the API has been updated to the last released version (1.16.1 released with Subsonic 6.1.6)
The Ampache webplayer (jPlayer) has had a few new options added
With this option you can remove a number of songs before the currently playing track
This will happen when a song is played so you can pause and move objects around the playlist without them being lost
In the webplayer you can now loop back to the start of your current playlist after it's finished
When you enable this setting the playlist will not remove played files
Channels have been removed. This feature just isn't comparable to using other streaming servers like Icecast.
The information group was an odd one compared to other pages by listing lots of things on a single page
Instead of showing long lists of multiple object types we've split these pages into browse pages by object type.
Recent
Newest
This matches how other pages in the site work as it's not really expected to have different object types on the same page in other areas
As we move things forward some things just don't make the cut for continued support the following features have been removed.
I looked at ways to make this cleaner but it just looked terrible. So it's been removed to keep as a simple player.
The library was removed from GitHub and looks like Soundcloud has removed access to this feature. (This was also removed in Ampache 5.6.1)
Upgrading this plugin was such a low priority that it's been removed instead. Movies are not really what Ampache is for.
I would recommend Jellyfin over Ampache for movie watchers.