Vitaliy Alexeyev

synshell · Media · syn-audio-player

Music player

Music player for the synshell desktop — your Music folder as a library, any audio format through ffmpeg.

READMEAUR package: syn-audio-player-binAUR package: syn-audio-player-git
Library

Features

  • Library — audio files from Music (XDG_MUSIC_DIR, six levels deep) and Downloads (two levels), sorted by artist, album and track number; tags and durations are read in the background.
  • Formats — whatever ffmpeg plays: MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Opus, M4A/AAC, WAV, AIFF, WMA, APE, WavPack, DSD, MIDI, tracker modules and more.
  • Now playing — album cover from the file, title, artist and album, seek bar, previous/next, repeat (off, all, one).
  • Queue — the library order, or the files given on the command line; the next track starts when one ends.
  • Mini player — at the bottom of the library: cover, progress, play/pause and next.
  • Computer and phone — the same window fits a monitor and a phone screen; 14 languages.
Now playing Phone: library Phone: now playing
Now playing Phone: library Phone: now playing

Install

Arch Linux (AUR) — x86_64 and aarch64:

yay -S syn-audio-player-bin      # prebuilt
yay -S syn-audio-player-git      # built from source

Depends on synshell-core and ffmpeg. Part of the synshell metapackage: yay -S synshell-bin installs the whole desktop. From source: cargo build --release -p syn-audio-player in the synshell repository.

Command line

syn-audio-player                         # library
syn-audio-player song.flac other.mp3     # these files as the queue, the first one plays
syn-audio-player --screenshot shot.png --size 1400x900 --page player
                                         # window snapshot without sound (pages: library, player)

Part of synshell

syn-audio-player is one of the applications of synshell — a Wayland desktop environment in Rust for computers and phones, built on the syngui UI framework.

License

GPL-3.0-only