Show HN: Ampache – Self-hosted personal music and video streaming server

Changelog - https://github.com/ampache/ampache/blob/master/docs/CHANGELO...

This is a pretty great streaming solution but last time I used it didn't deal with as many codecs as Kodi

Where am I supposed to store all the music? S3?

I think the last version I used was 3.5.4, it looks like a lot changed since then. I'm glad to see MusicBrainz support got added. Ampache was definitely a nice way to organize and stream stuff.

I'm storing it on a personal server. S3 would be theoretically fine if you mount it as a file system but I'm not sure this would be the cheaper plan.

S3 or other static hosts can certainly be the cheapest thing if used efficiently, cheapness is one of the main reasons people use them at all! So it should be mounted, I guess that's the easiest way of enumerating tracks and getting metadata (edit: and all the file manager features, duh). But would the traffic also have to go though Ampache? Like this:

      S3 (music files) -> Ampache server -> client

Because it would be a lot more efficient to have the option of specifying that files should be streamed directly from another host like this:

      S3 (music files) --->(streaming)>--------\
       |                                        \
  (read metadata, manage files)                  `-> client
       |                                         /
       |                                        /
     Ampache server -->(web interface etc.)>---/

I now realize it might be kind of a PITA to implement this because of Ampache's extensive feature set. Still, it would be really cool and an efficient way from a pricing as well as speed point of view. Of course, having a fixed IP and a server in your basement is a also decent solution when it's available to you. (hah, definitely not available to me right now)