The ShoutBox can be a very handy little feature to leave yourself or your Ampache Admin messages about bad tags, missing album art or general notes.

Find this section in /etc/ampache/ampache.cfg.php

; ShoutBox
; Enabling this will allow any user to 'tag' an item and post
; a comment about it which will then be put on the main pages
; shoutbox. Admins are allowed to create 'sticky' shoutbox items
; POSSIBLE VALUES: false true
; DEFAULT: false
;shoutbox = "false"

make these changes

; ShoutBox
; Enabling this will allow any user to 'tag' an item and post
; a comment about it which will then be put on the main pages
; shoutbox. Admins are allowed to create 'sticky' shoutbox items
; POSSIBLE VALUES: false true
; DEFAULT: false
shoutbox = "true"

On the Albums page

Find the icon and click on it.

This will bring up the ShoutBox dialog box.

• Type in comment
• Choose if you would like a sticky note
• Click create

Once you are done with the ShoutBox you can manage them by going to => Manage ShoutBox

This will take you to the ShoutBox Management dialog box.

To delete the ShoutBox click on the icon.

To edit the ShoutBox click on the icon.