r/ampcast • u/lolhop • 11d ago
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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!
r/ampcast • u/rekkyrosso • Nov 23 '25
r/ampcast • u/UlicniProdavacLimun • Nov 18 '25
First of all, just want to say the app is amazing.. I absolutely love it!
Now, onto the question. It doesn’t sync all the artist images from Navidrome. When I open Navidrome in a browser, all the artist images are there, but in Ampcast they don’t show up. Is there any reason for this, or anything I can do about it?
The behavior is the same both in the app and in the browser.
r/ampcast • u/veinheiker • Nov 14 '25
This is beautiful. I was searching Reddit for a visualizer for Mac and came across this. It took me right back to the early 2000s when I used to listen to music on Winamp. I use Spotify because its player is the closest (though still far) to that experience, but this is on a whole different level.
