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Yet another FOSS music Player for Linux (flathub.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, I wasn't particularly satisfied with any existing music player for Linux, so I gave it a shot and created my own!

In particular, I feel like there's a gap between very simple players like Amberol and more complete ones like Tauon.
I hope to fill the gap by having something with a very simple UI, that at the same time can display your music library in an organized fashion.

It's still under development, but the basic features are there:

It can play songs
It displays the music in your library (by default, the "Music" directory on your home)
You can sort/filter/search songs by album, artist, etc.
It interacts with the system, so you get notifications, media keys controls, KDE connect integration etc.

Any feedback is welcome!

You can download it on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.mmarco94.tambourine
Source code is on: https://github.com/MMarco94/tambourine-music-player/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah that's strange, they should be picked up as long as they are in the music folder. Do you mind sharing the format of one of the songs that isn't recognized?

If you have time, could you open the app from the terminal (flatpak run io.github.mmarco94.tambourine) and see if any interesting log pops up?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ooh I see now! I should have thought of it, most of my songs are in opus format, and tambourine is only picking up the flacs:

023-07-04 11:00:57.342 | ERROR | io.github.mmarco94.tambourine.data.Library | Error while parsing music file: No Reader associated with this extension:opus

My bad, many music apps don't support opus. I have everything in flac on a separate drive, but there's no room on my laptop so I convert them. Opus is open source and compresses files in a much more optimised way than mp3, so you can get smaller files with way better sound quality.

I have no idea how much work adding support for it would entail, but I would definitely use tambourine if you decided to do it. Right now I'm using Elisa on KDE, which is nice but very slow to recreate its database every time I add or change something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ack, never heard of it.

I've opened the issue https://github.com/MMarco94/tambourine-music-player/issues/4, I'll take a look when I'm back from Holidays

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's great, enjoy your holiday!