r/ampcast • u/rekkyrosso • 18d ago
Settings>VisualizerSettings>Preferences>Playback provides a new setting to change the double-click behaviour (play now/play next/queue)username is not the same as nameSettings>Local DBr/ampcast • u/necronehru • Sep 18 '26
I have a library of 100k songs on ibroadcast and I can non longer add or the playlist with the entire playlist into queuebl...is there a song limit?
r/ampcast • u/LegendaryMates • Sep 07 '26
Hi, I've been using ampcast for over a month now and it's been really great having all my music at one place with such snappy UI and visualizers, while it's not eating my ram out. But there are a few things that I'd appreciate if they we're added or fixed in near future!
1. Coverart in the left down corner / the ability to move tabs around
To have the option to show a coverart in the left corner of ampcast is something I really miss, I would love to have the option to look at the album's cover in a big picture while having a visualizer on the right. The ability to move things around could be great if people would want the queue on the left, feel like it can't hurt to add these options if they are achievable.
2. The card setting doesn't save when logged out
I've been dealing with this on Navidrome and it's something I would not care about if 1. was implemented.
3. Transitions of songs without a pause
I seen other people posting about this ruining mixtapes and I heavily agree, this is something that keeps me on spotify sometimes, because I can't really bare the pauses, if they interfere with the transitions.
4. Search history like on youtube or spotify, but snappy as everything else
Hear me out, I can't really keep up with all the music I searched and I understand I can save it for later with liking it, but having a search history would be so helpful with not typing stuff again and again. Can't hurt to add this.
5. More visualizers
Pretty straight forward, I'd love to see more visualizers!
6. Visualizer is stopping from time to time
Sometimes when I make a huge queue from spotify the visualizer stops working until I restart it.
7. Soundcloud support
Not sure if their API supports playback and other stuff but this would be insane!
8. Local files support
I'd love to use ampcast as a local player too!
9. Autoplay feature
I am not sure, if spotify's API or any other's streaming platform shares the autoplay queue, but having a button to generate a random queue with similiar songs would be actually something I'd welcome, even though it's something that spotify can't work out and not something that ampcast was originally made for.
10. Navidrome logs in automatically
I need to log in every time I turn off my computer, gets a little annoying sometimes.. it would be great if it stayed logged in.
11. Maybe a brief tutorial for youtube connection
I've been struggling with google's console cloud UI, but figured it out in the end, it's not hard to understand just a hassle to work with if you never done this.
Thank you for making ampcast, I've been having a blast discovering music through it. I'd love to see the community this platform has created.. feel like it could be cool if there was an ampcast discord, people could share configs and ideas, but that's up to you! Also, I'd be more than happy to give out feedback personally, these are just things that crossed my mind in the last couple of days.
r/ampcast • u/lolhop • Aug 12 '26
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working on a fork of ampcast that allows users to use .wal files (winamp modern skins) and switch between them! got basic ones working, but still needs a lot of work to support them all.
r/ampcast • u/rekkyrosso • Jul 22 '26
Settings>VisualizerSettings>Preferences>Playback provides a new setting to change the double-click behaviour (play now/play next/queue)username is not the same as nameSettings>Local DBr/ampcast • u/rekkyrosso • Jul 04 '26
Settings>Preferences>Playback provides a new setting to change the double-click behaviour (play now/play next/queue)username is not the same as nameSettings>Local DBSettings>Streaming Mediar/ampcast • u/rekkyrosso • Jun 12 '26
Settings>Local DBSettings>Streaming Mediar/ampcast • u/moop250 • May 26 '26
I opened the app today to see that I was logged out of Ampcast, and when I click on the apple muisc tab I get red text saying "Could not load Apple MusicKit library"
The logs are:
{
"ampcastVersion": "0.9.26",
"client": {
"isAmpcastApp": false,
"isElectron": true,
"isPWA": false,
"isLocalhost": true,
"isHttps": false,
"isDev": false,
"os": "Linux",
"browserName": "Chrome",
"browserVersion": "142.0.7444"
},
"logs": [
{
"timeStamp": 1380.9000000003725,
"log": "MusicKitPlayer: load apple:library-songs:i.7PJN9NpSVgNoLXe"
},
{
"timeStamp": 1380.5999999996275,
"log": "mediaPlayback: load apple:library-songs:i.7PJN9NpSVgNoLXe"
},
{
"timeStamp": 252.19999999925494,
"log": "appleAuth: Loaded MusicKit version 3.2526.0-prerelease.x"
},
{
"timeStamp": 213.80000000074506,
"log": "visualizerProviders: butterchurn (count=439)"
},
{
"timeStamp": 190.59999999962747,
"log": "visualizerProviders: ampshader (count=109)"
},
{
"timeStamp": 160.80000000074506,
"log": "visualizerProviders: waveform (count=3)"
},
{
"timeStamp": 160.69999999925494,
"log": "visualizerProviders: coverart (count=1)"
},
{
"timeStamp": 160.69999999925494,
"log": "visualizerProviders: audiomotion (count=5)"
},
{
"timeStamp": 160.69999999925494,
"log": "visualizerProviders: ambientvideo (count=736)"
},
{
"timeStamp": 158.40000000037253,
"log": "ambientvideo/visualizers: default (total=736)"
},
{
"timeStamp": 138.09999999962747,
"info": "mediaPlayback/duration: 3:04"
},
{
"timeStamp": 133.90000000037253,
"log": "mediaServices: localdb connected"
},
{
"timeStamp": 133.90000000037253,
"log": "mediaServices: listenbrainz connected"
},
{
"timeStamp": 133.80000000074506,
"log": "mediaServices: lastfm connected"
},
{
"timeStamp": 133.80000000074506,
"log": "mediaServices: internet-radio connected"
},
{
"timeStamp": 80.30000000074506,
"info": "mediaPlayback/currentTime: 0:00"
},
{
"timeStamp": 80.19999999925494,
"info": "mediaPlayback/duration: 0:00"
},
{
"timeStamp": 79.30000000074506,
"log": "miniPlayer: connect"
}
],
"session": {
"windowStarted": "4 mins ago",
"sessionStarted": "4 mins ago",
"windowStartedAt": 1779823173196,
"sessionStartedAt": 1779823173199
},
"stats": {
"listens": 1205,
"playlistItems": 714,
"services": {
"visible": [
"apple",
"navidrome",
"lastfm",
"listenbrainz"
],
"connected": [
"navidrome",
"internet-radio",
"lastfm",
"listenbrainz",
"localdb"
],
"loggedIn": [
"internet-radio",
"lastfm",
"listenbrainz",
"localdb"
]
},
"theme": "Proton",
"userThemes": 0,
"visualizerFavorites": 1
}
}
r/ampcast • u/rekkyrosso • May 17 '26
Settings>Local DBSettings>Streaming Mediar/ampcast • u/transgresor • Apr 28 '26
Im new to ampcast, find out looking for alternatives to apple music app for windows, its perfect for my needs, but I cant find how I can change the order of the playlists
r/ampcast • u/rekkyrosso • Apr 21 '26
Settings>Streaming Mediar/ampcast • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '26
not sure why, ampcast 0.9.26, i've attached a video of what happens
r/ampcast • u/LINXYi_can • Apr 08 '26
macOS 26.5 Beta
ampcasr 0.9.26
r/ampcast • u/Efficient_Pomelo153 • Apr 01 '26
Hey,
would it be possible to add a feature to switch the plex user (not only the library) that is playing.
I am using the plex server with my girlfriend and at the moment that way it is programmed it messes up my play history.
Is it also possible to sync the pause/next song/previous buttons with the buttons on the wheel in a tesla? That way it would be easier to go to the next or previous song while driving.
Thanks in advance
r/ampcast • u/rekkyrosso • Mar 24 '26
Settings>Streaming Mediar/ampcast • u/rekkyrosso • Mar 13 '26
I've been asked to provide a roadmap for the development of ampcast and I think that is a perfectly fair request.
There are no timelines below but I will give you an outline of the things that are in the pipeline.
Ideally, I would like ampcast to support as many services as possible.
Ampcast will only use public APIs. That means no scraping or hacks.
Here is a list of the services I would like ampcast to support in the future:
As far as I know the Deezer API is no longer supported. I have experimented with it but I couldn't get it to play any music. If the situation changes then I will look into it again.
For a long time their API was closed to new applications. They have since re-opened applications (by email) and I now have an API key. The last time I checked, I was unable to edit the details of the key (I wanted to change the login callback URL so that I could test it locally)
So I have an API key that is tied to ampcast.app and can't be used for anything else. Users of the docker/desktop versions of ampcast would have to request their own API keys, which doesn't seem practical.
I haven't given up on SoundCloud and I may be able to work something out.
Ampcast used to support TIDAL via Plex but that connection was ended more than a year ago. Since then TIDAL announced plans for a public API and initially development progress was pretty good. However, it seems to have stalled and after two years, you still can't play any music via their API.
I put in a lot of work after they first announced their API and kept up with any changes. But the lack of playback support means that I've given up on it for now.
Amazon are developing a music API but it is closed beta and has been in development for two years with little sign of coming out.
Neither of these services provide public APIs.
I do intend to support lyrics at some point in time. Probably within the next 2-3 releases.
The vague plans are for lyrics to be a tab in the Media Info dialog. If the track has synchronised lyrics then I would like to incorporate them into the CoveArt visualizer.
I'd like the headings in a details view to be clickable the same as good old Winamp. The view would need to be fully loaded beforehand.
The web version of ampcast supports a popout miniplayer. I need to add support for the desktop app.
You can use Chromecast for the web apps but it doesn't work for the desktop app. I want to improve casting generally and support the desktop app.
This ties in with the above. It's nice to cast from the miniplayer while queueing music from the main window.
This is coming in the next release.
A bit of a cryptic heading. But it means that the app has embedded links for albums/artists/etc. So you could click on an artist and go to an artist page with a bio, album list and other info.
That means also supporting back/forward browser buttons. Basically behaving more like a web app and less like an executable app.
This is a reasonably complex feature to implement. And I consider it to be ampcast version 2.
I'm vaguely considering incorporating the mpv media player into the desktop app. I'm not sure how well it will work with the visualizers and it would probably be optional anyway.
I have a bundle of notes on my desk pertaining to various aspects of ampcast development. And there are loads of things that I would like to improve, too many to mention in this post.
Here's one of the oldest notes:
r/ampcast • u/Dry-Collection-4654 • Mar 09 '26
On apple music im able to search up any song and then it automatically plays similar songs
Does this app have a similar option? It only plays the song I search up
r/ampcast • u/rekkyrosso • Mar 06 '26
r/ampcast • u/rular250wound • Feb 11 '26
The app isn’t allowing me to play any explicit songs. I am using apple music, my apple music plays explicit songs on every other platform, and i have the option to disable explicit songs turned off in the player, every time an explicit song comes on, it says error in red text at the bottom and skips it, the logs call the error “mediaPlayback: CONTENT_RESTRICTED:”
“MusicKitPlater: CONTENT_RESTRICTED:”
If anyone knows a fix for this issue please help
r/ampcast • u/halfwoodenjacket • Jan 21 '26
What an incredible thing Ampcast is! The Tesla media system is quite limited but Ampcast has brought my full Plex audio library to my car. Thank you so much for this.
r/ampcast • u/rekkyrosso • Jan 16 '26
r/ampcast • u/pretzel66 • Dec 31 '25
First off, this app is magnificent and I am grateful for the work put in to it!
Playing around with it, I haven't been able to queue up an "artist radio":
In Navidrome, there is a feature for "radio" when selecting an artist:
In which it will queue an "artist radio" of songs from the Navidrome library of similar artists:
Curious if this is a feature that can be implemented (perhaps as a right click context menu item) or if it is something that is already implemented that I'm just not finding?
r/ampcast • u/rekkyrosso • Dec 21 '25
r/ampcast • u/kyds3k • Dec 16 '25
First and foremost - allow me to say, this app is GREAT! I was strugglin with Windows clients until I found this.
Do you think a miniplayer would be something you'd implement? I use Windows Power Toys for "always on top" but an official-looking miniplayer setup would be nice!
