Ampache vs. Subsonic API

[Andy Pastuszak]

2 questions here:

1. Are there any good Amapche mobile clients in development for iOS or other mobile OSes?  I bought AmpacheX a while back and it seems to never want to give me a complete list of artists.

2. What are the advantages of the Amapche API vs. the Subsonic API?

[Carlo]

On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 12:22:24 PM UTC-7, Andy Pastuszak wrote:

2 questions here:

1. Are there any good Amapche mobile clients in development for iOS or other mobile OSes?  I bought AmpacheX a while back and it seems to never want to give me a complete list of artists.

For Android, all the "native" Ampache apps are crap.  Development has been dead for years it seems.  For Android Subsonic apps, the only decent free one is Utrasonic (works even better that the official free Subsonic mobile app), but even that one has its limitations/bugs and development has been dead for a long time.  I went ahead and bought DSub and it really IS the best out there.  It is actively developed and many compatibility issues between Ampache's Subsonic API and it have been ironed out.  I don't just recommend it for Android, I would be bold enough to say it's the only one worth looking at for Android and worth the money.

I don't have an iPhone so, I don't really have a say in that area.

 

2. What are the advantages of the Amapche API vs. the Subsonic API?

If there was actually a native Ampache app that took advantage of all of Ampache's features (like Radio Stations or mobile control of Channels), then I could probably make a realistic comparison.  But, unfortunately there isn't any (or I'm just not aware of and never found one).

The Subsonic API has features that Ampache does not have anyway (like Podcast syncing, Bookmarking, and Chat).  So, you're really not missing out on anything using Subsonic API.  And if Ampache adds those features, it's only to fill in the gap.

That's just my opinion as a normal user.  So, anyone else with more insight into this I would be very interested to hear, too.

[SUT Jael]

Nothing else to add :)

The initial reason why we've integrated the Subsonic API was to be compatible to many existing (and mostly supported) client applications.

Our idea was to bring users from Subsonic to Ampache but without some good clients, there was a real lack of interest.

And as Carlo said, native Ampache API client are just crap! :)

[Andy Pastuszak]

Well, before you guys came along, Ampache was pretty much abandoned.  I had it running, but had switched to Madsonic, mostly because Subsonic development is active and there were good clients.

Of course, since you guys came along, Ampache just completely blows Subsonic and it's forks away.  The poor Madsonic developer is trying to monetize his app through some kind of subscription service now.  Every time I log into my Madsonic server, I look at the UI and just go "Ugh!  Back to Ampache!"

Subsonic is still good.  But Ampache has seriously surpassed it at this point.

Andy

[Stephen Cooke]

Hi All, I'll try posting here about my question before creating a new thread because you guys seem to be in the know :)

I used ampache years ago and was fond of it but eventually migrated to subsonic mainly because of poor client apps. Becasue of the change to the recent closed source status of subsonic I want to give this another try plus I think mysql as a database may be more dependable then whatever subsonic uses (often subsonic database crash requiring a re-scan.) Anyways, I recently have running now the most recent develop branch build of ampache running on a Toshiba NB250 notebook (1ghz of ram and 1.6ghz Atom) Everything works well including the subsonic api, no problem with getting dsub to work. The issue I am having, a couple of hours into the scan, things become slow, and using dsub returns network connect error whenevery I try to refresh the folders. So I can only conclude my measly atom notebook specs are too little to support ampache, what do you guys think? Any recomindations to improve performance?