Open sound series: Part 3 – Ampache

“Building a community is core to all open source projects. In
fact, an open source project that lacks a community is likely
missing the point of being open source. So what happens when your
open project is designed to create communities?

“While thinking of the next article for the Open Sound Series, I
was listening to some music via Ampache. For those of you who are
unfamiliar with Ampache, it is simply a piece of software that
allows you to upload, download, and stream music (and now videos)
from a collection of media residing on a server. It features the
ability to have multiple catalogs, ratings of songs and videos,
playlist creation (including “democratic playlists” that users vote
for), tag editing, album art and streaming various formats of
music. While most software designed to listen to music does many of
the same things, Ampache is then able to take it a step further by
adding the idea of concurrent users of a single instance of the
software.

“So while listening to something my wife was probably telling me
to turn down, I realized that Ampache belongs to a breed of open
source software (along with projects like Drupal and PHPBB) that
has a community of developers creating software that is designed to
build communities”

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