Icecast VS Ampache

Icecast

icecast is free server software for streaming multimedia.

Ampache

Web ( HTTP centralized ) based audio/video streaming application

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Icecast and Ampache)

Ampache

Audio Player

38 38%

Audio Player

62% 62

Media Player

0 0%

Media Player

100% 100

Music Streaming

22 22%

Music Streaming

78% 78

Media Players And Streaming Platforms

0 0%

Media Players And Streaming Platforms

100% 100

User comments

Share your experience with using Icecast and Ampache. For example, how are they different and which one is better?

Social recommendations and mentions

Ampache might be a bit more popular than Icecast. We know about 23 links to it since March 2021 and only 20 links to Icecast. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Icecast mentions (20)

AzuraCast: A Simple, Self-Hosted Web Radio Management Suite
I'm using icecast2 for that. The only downsides are that it does only mp3s and sometimes it goes mute after a track ends. A short silent transition track should workaround the latter problem but I never managed to make it work. I configured a hotkey to restart VLC on my laptop instead. https://icecast.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Setting up my own scanner broadcast on my website
My impression is that people use Icecast for this. Source: 11 months ago
PSP Internet Radio in 2023
Yeah, if you have an old Raspberry Pi collecting dust or something like that, icecast will work great. Source: about 1 year ago
Is there a self-hosted software for hifi music streaming?
Icecast server. It's exactly would covers you needs... For free. Source: over 1 year ago
Show HN: Phoenix10.1, a Personalized Radio Station
Very cool, if you want to go even further with this. You could integrate this using Icecast[1] with Liquidsoap[2] to have a more expansive schedule. 1 = https://icecast.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Ampache mentions (23)

Ask HN: Flac/MP3 listeners: How do you store/play your music?
I'm not sure if this would fit all your needs aside from running on Linux but Ampache [1][2] has been around for a very long time and has the ability to mesh with other instances. It started as a small project run by some students at OSU and evolved over time. [1] - https://ampache.org/ [2] - https://github.com/ampache/ampache. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
self-hosted alternative to spotify?
Https://ampache.org/ could be an alternative. Source: about 1 year ago
Step Up in Linux knowledge
You can also do something such as build a mp3 server on headless Debian install https://ampache.org/. Source: about 1 year ago
Where I can do my backup?
Now it's time to make backups of my nextcloud, bitwarden, ampache files. Source: over 1 year ago
What's yout preferred selfhosted music streaming suite?
Ampache. I've been using it for a while and it's great. I'd suggest using it with Ample, as Ample's UI is better. It supports the Subsonic API, so subsonic clients will work with it. It also supports DAAP and uPnP, for other clients. It has it's own API as well, but not many apps use that. Source: over 1 year ago