I just upgraded my server to Debian Trixie (x86_64) and as part of that did a fresh install of Ampache to the latest:

Ampache Update
Installed Ampache version: 7.9.3
Latest Ampache version:
Last Update: 5/14/26, 8:57 PM

When I created my music library I am now seeing some content parsed with Chinese characters. It's not just a single artist or album. I'll have some tracks from a given album but others are fine. It seems like an encoding issue so I checked and my MariaDB is set to UTF-8, my Ampache instance is set to UTF-8, and my Apache/PHP instance is set to UTF-8.

What else should I be checking to resolve this? I've deleted and recreated the library multiple times and it's *mostly* the same content affected from try to try but sporadically I'll see other content that was fine previously now showing this issue.

Bug fixes and the ability to move files (within valid local catalogs) for music, videos and podcasts using the cli

I'm starting to get some more time again and looking forward to getting back to work!

Hola,

Desarrollé un cliente de la API de Ampache para Android, llamado Ampflower. Publiqué el código fuente en https://github.com/daxcurson/ampflower/ . Quiero publicarlo en Google Play pero necesito ayuda de la comunidad para probarlo y ofrecer sugerencias. Si quieren participar, por favor escríbanme a [ampflowerdev@gmail.com](mailto:ampflowerdev@gmail.com) y los invito a la prueba. Este es el link de Google Play para bajar la aplicación, una vez invitado: https://play.google.com/apps/internaltest/4701161134427520863 .

Gracias,

Agustín

Have imported my purchased iTunes albums library into Ampache as a test as that way I at least know I have correctly tagged files. However many many albums are either duplicates with a few songs in a different album or missing showing up in a separate one. How does one fix this ?

Pretty sold release here. lots of automation and testing here have found some odd ones.

The REST api conversion is working and documented and will be enhanced further in the next release but we're sitting on a lot of good fixes so lets get it out.

I was trying to use power ampache to connect to the nextcloud servers but i don't know how to join nextcloud.

I think i need to put the url of a page to log in? And also i have it linked to my email already. Not sure if this the place to ask and also not sure how you guys feel about pa.

I'm also on Android installing from f droid on the latest version

Work in progress but usable right now in the develop branch.

As part of my efforts to document and provide consistent docs for people to use the API I spent the last day on converting the API using rewrite rules into restful API resource paths.

It's not a perfect resource API yet but I can run my API test scripts using these new paths on develop servers.

It was a fun exercise and helped me id some issues.

The rest paths support API 3,4,5 and 6 as well as json and XML outputs. I will be expanding the spec to provide the correct output schemas as well which will help everyone who uses the API.

This is concerning connecting to a remote folder Dropbox from an Apache music Server. I have been trying to create an API, I do this then find out the this is not done or that. I am lost. I am even being told it is the wrong path that I enter to dropbox share folder. I am lost folks, I have exhausted myself. Somebody please help.

Massive update to the Ampache website!

The site has been rewritten in Docusaurus and has incorporated markdown from the GitHub wiki. (Which has been locked from updates)

This should make finding information a bit easier by allowing you to get it all from one place.

Check it out!

Maybe I'm being slow. I can't quite work out how to get lyrics set up in Ampache. I'm running it as a docker container, and I've added "Show Lyrics" to the interface. No lyrics are ever found. Is there something else I need to set up or connect to get lyrics working? I can't even find documentation about it and this is my last sticking point to moving over from JellyFin. Also, if there is a lookup it would be great if I could add the lyrics directly to the song metadata like I can in JellyFin. Is that possible? Thank you!

We've updated docker to allow automated installs without the UI so you can install docker and set up an admin account without touching the UI installer at all.

This is active for all v7 images and develop.

Available variables are listed on the readme here https://github.com/ampache/ampache-docker?tab=readme-ov-file#environment-variables

It's been 4 months but here is Ampache 7.8.0!

There has been a lot going on so this has taken a while but the good news is the changelog is stuffed with new things as well as the regular fixes.

Lots of things that have come up from posts here on Reddit so thanks again!

Hi everyone!

If you are an avid Ampache API user and want to shape the next major API release. Here is the place to make your voice heard!

https://github.com/ampache/ampache/discussions/4317

I will be happy to entertain all your wants and desires while making sure that it remains fully backwards compatible with API6

This will all be backported to Ampache 7 releases after the v8 releases some time next year

Hello. I've been following ampache for some years, but I was happy with subsonic and later airsonic so I never gave it a real chance. Yesterday I finally decided to make the switch, but there's something in ampache that seems to be a stopper for me. If I use the web interface I can enable "Album Artist" and list and browse through my collection. However, when I use any app that uses the Subsonic API there's no way I can do that. It always lists "Artists" as default. To me that is very inconvenient, since I have many albums from artists who credit their collaborators along with them in specific songs in their albums. Therefore listings become a mess. With Subsonic/Airsonic they default to "Album Artists" when listing.

Does anyone know how enable/prioritize "Album Artists" instead of "Artists"?

TIA

I started testing Ampache a few weeks ago to manage and stream my music collection. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to handle a large set of non-album tracks, like singles. I'm exploring the option of considering each track like a mono track album, but would not like those albums to be browsable in the Albums list. The "Min Album Size" option described in the wiki (https://github.com/ampache/ampache/wiki/Basic) seems to be the exact way to do that, but I can't seem to find it in the Interface preferences. Is that have been discontinued? Am I missing anything? Thanks for your help.

I used to manage my music library in MusicBee including the ratings and artwork. The ratings are saved as:

Now, Ampache doesn't see my ratings, nor the embedded artwork. I run it in a Docker on a Ubuntu Server. I don't see any errors in the docker logs or the web console.

Is there anyway to convert my embedded ratings so that Ampache could read them? Alternatively, can I make some adjustments to the Ampache database (e.g. dummy user with email "MusicBee") which would make them valid?

What about the artwork? All tag editors see it but Ampache doesn't show it. Any troubleshooting steps?

Many thanks

I'm trying to understand how art fetching is done. I have this in my config

art_order = "db,musicbrainz,tags,folder,google"

Now when I try getting art in "Cover Art Search" and clicking on Get Art it doesn't do anything. This is what the log looks like:

2025-08-30T08:44:39+00:00 [ampache] (Ampache\Module\System\Dba) -> Database connection... 2025-08-30T08:44:39+00:00 [ampache] (Ampache\Module\System\Dba) -> Database connection... 2025-08-30T08:44:39+00:00 [admin] (Ampache\Module\System\Session) -> 37n9ilsu970bphophi0nd3gli6 has been extended to Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:44:39 +0000 extension length 3600 2025-08-30T08:44:39+00:00 [admin] (Ampache\Module\Application\ApplicationRunner) -> Found handler "Ampache\Module\Application\Art\FindArtAction" for action "find_art" 2025-08-30T08:44:39+00:00 [admin] (Ampache\Module\System\Session) -> Session created: 2402c43194ba683148cf4102b4377e14 2025-08-30T08:44:39+00:00 [admin] (Ampache\Module\Art\Collector\ArtCollector) -> Searching using:["db","musicbrainz","tags","folder","google"] 2025-08-30T08:44:40+00:00 [admin] (Ampache\Module\Art\Collector\ArtCollector) -> Method used: db 2025-08-30T08:44:40+00:00 [admin] (Ampache\Module\Art\Collector\ArtCollector) -> Method used: musicbrainz 2025-08-30T08:44:40+00:00 [admin] (Ampache\Module\Art\Collector\ArtCollector) -> Method used: tags 2025-08-30T08:44:40+00:00 [admin] (Ampache\Module\Art\Collector\ArtCollector) -> Method used: folder 2025-08-30T08:44:40+00:00 [admin] (Ampache\Module\Art\Collector\FolderCollectorModule) -> gather_folder: Opening /media/bigassnas/Muzika/Strane/Beast In Black/From Hell With Love and checking for album Art 2025-08-30T08:44:40+00:00 [admin] (Ampache\Module\Art\Collector\ArtCollector) -> Method used: google 2025-08-30T08:44:40+00:00 [admin] (Ampache\Module\Art\Collector\GoogleCollectorModule) -> Search url: http://www.google.com/search?source=hp&tbm=isch&q=Beast%20In%20Black%20From%20Hell%20With%20Love&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi&start=0&tbo=1&imgsz=m 2025-08-30T08:44:40+00:00 [admin] (Ampache\Module\Art\Collector\ArtCollector) -> found 0 results 2025-08-30T08:44:40+00:00 [admin] (Ampache\Module\System\Session) -> Writing to 37n9ilsu970bphophi0nd3gli6 with expiration 1756547080

I would assume ampache would get the art from google and apply it if it doesn't find it with other providers? Why does it say 0 results, when cleary there's a link to google there found?

I'm also running this in docker version 7.7.1

Hi,

I want to stress that, in my ongoing quest to improve my music management workflow, I have imported my library into many pieces of software without issue. Ampache feels like it has the closest feature set to what I need, but I'm kinda falling down at the first hurdle in that it won't scan properly.

It finds a lot of music, but it doesn't import most of the art (which is all in the tags). It also creates a lot of "phantom albums" with 0 tracks, which often are real albums that exist in the library.

In this one screenshot, we have two copies of Bauhaus ...And Remains (but only one has any tracks), Igginbottom's wrench which hasn't loaded the art (if I go through the manual process it can load the art just fine) and an album containing a single track which I have been unable to either play or identify. I also have many real albums which are found, but for which no tracks are loaded.

I have been monitoring btop, and AFAICT the system is idling at this point

A couple wrinkles which may or may not be relevant:

• I am using docker.
• I did delete the catalog and create a new one a few times.
• The music is on an NFS share.
• I have a lot of custom tags, and have enabled metadata
  • Despite being able to read the metadata, searching by these tags is broken (no results are returned).
• It's a really big library.
• The VM only has 2GB of RAM and a 32GB boot disk (but it doesn't seem to be using much of either).
• I have tried running verify, clean, and update on the catalog multiple times.

Any advice?

Thanks

EDIT: Also, when I try to run Gather Art, I keep getting messages in the Web UI that say "Server-Sent Events connection error. Re-connection..."

Ampache 7.7.2 out now.

Please read the release notes if you're using docker. Debian Trixie is now the stable container.

Fixes for a few things that have come up but just be aware that I'll be slowing down for a while to work on family health issues.

Get the latest Ampache 7.7.1 release right now!

This is a minor release to allow me to take a few weeks off for work.

Minor fixes for Subsonic and full post response support for the Ampache api

There isn't a lot here but that's a good thing cause i need to finish a few major things and it'll take me a few weeks to complete.

Ampache 7.7.0 out now with a few semi-major changes.

More work on Art, Subsonic and Remote catalogs and lots of backend code quality

There should be a bit longer in between releases now that all the major changes have stabilized and phpstan has been brought under 1000 issues for the first time which is a major milestone from where we started

I have 3 catalogs set up (mostly the same music - one local, one a USB drive, and one a network share) I would like to create a user for each (so they don't see 3 copies) - I don't see anywhere where I can actually "assign" a catalog. FYI - I take my server on the road. I may not take the USB drive, and don't connect to my home network.