Ubuntu Manpage: Ampache - is a Web-based Audio file manager.

Provided by: ampache_3.6-rzb2779+dfsg-0ubuntu9.2_all

NAME

       Ampache - is a Web-based Audio file manager.

DESCRIPTION

       Ampache  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.

OPTIONS

The following scripts are included in Ampache and can be used to automate some aspects of Ampache.

catalog_update.inc

You can automate the update of all, or some of your local catalogs by using the bin/catalog_update.inc
file. By default this will run a clean, verify and update on all of your local catalogs. You can
optionally specify the name of the catalog and it will only update the specified catalog. Very useful
when used with cron or crontab.

dump_art.inc

You can output all of the album art stored in ampache to the filesystem. It will output the image stored
in the database to the directory of the first file in the album. This can cause problems f your files are
not in their own directories. You can specify the filename to be written by modifying the config file
options relating to album_art_preferred_filename. Ampache will by default output meta data directory
files for linux.

delete_disabled.inc

If you would like to delete all of the disabled songs in Ampache you can run the bin/delete_disabled.inc
to delete all of the songs that are disabled in Ampache. Naturally this requires the user you run the
script as to have permissions to delete the files in question. By default this script will not work if
you run it. You must open it and delete or comment out the line that says $debug=true for it to actually
work.

sort_files.inc

You can have Ampache automatically rename and move all of your files based on the meta data in Ampache
using the bin/sort_files.inc script. This requires write access to the files in question. The files will
be renamed and moved based on their respective File and Folder patterns as defined by the catalog.
Ampache will also by default sort your files into A-Z sub-folders to reduce the number of folders at the
top level. You can turn this off by editing the file and setting the $alphabet_prefix to false, or
commenting it out.

fix_filenames.inc

Ampache provides some additional tools to help you cope with Character set mis-matches. These scripts
must be run from the command line. After making any changes to your tags or the filenames please make
sure you update your catalog and that your local client has the character set and fonts required to
display the tag information. This script looks through the path of your local catalogs for filenames who
contain characters that do not exist in the currently configured site_charset. It will prompt you for a
source character charset, if none is specified it will use the current output_encoding value from
iconv().

print_tags.inc

You can also look at the raw tags inside a file by running the included print_tags.inc file. This example
takes advantage of the hexcat application to get the hex values of the output. You will need to compare
the reported HEX value to the HEX value according to the defined charset.

php /bin/print_tags.inc [FILE]

migrate_config.inc

This is used to migrate your ampache.cfg.php config file from php4 formating to php5 formating. This is
done to decrease the parsing time of ampache.cfg.php. This is generally not needed unless you are
upgrading from 3.3.3.5 to 3.4.x. debian/ampache.postinst runs this script automatically if needed.

EXAMPLES

       php /usr/share/ampache/www/bin/update_catalog.inc
       php /usr/share/ampache/www/bin/print_tag.inc  [path to music file]

FILES

       /usr/share/ampache/www/bin

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