open source · rust · mit

a music player where the terminal has feelings.

plays your local audio folder. draws an fft spectrum, vu meters, and a now-playing card in text mode. no electron, no spotify, no ads to skip. i wrote it because every good terminal deserves ambient visual noise.

♫ now playing ────────────────────────────────
  charles mingus · goodbye pork pie hat
  mingus ah um · 1959 · track 3 / 9
  04:52 / 05:44  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━░░░░░░  85%

  L  ▂▃▅▆█▇▅▃▂▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█▇▆▅▃▂▁▂▃▄▅▃▂
  R  ▁▂▄▅▇█▆▄▂▁▂▃▄▆▇██▇▆▄▃▂▁▂▄▅▇▆▃▂

  vu  ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮░░░░  -6 db

  ⏮  ⏯  ⏭     q quit · / search · a album art

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plays mp3, flac, ogg, opus, m4a. doesn't play wma because nobody does.
02
real-time fft via cpal + rustfft. ~60 fps on a decent terminal.
03
reads id3/vorbis tags. shows album art as colored 256-block ascii if you have a terminal that supports it.
04
gapless playback. gap-detection in flac is still a bit iffy tbh.
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/search filters your library. streams the filename match as you type.

install

not public yet. source drops on github soon, i'm still polishing the repo. alsa on linux / coreaudio on mac when it ships. email bennett@frkhd.com if you want an early build.