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/

  • kunic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This looks really nice! However, as someone who uses a local Jellyfin server for my music, I can’t really use it. I know on the site it’s mentioned that this will never connect to the web, but it’d be nice to see it support local servers of common self-hosted music library solutions (Jellyfin, plex, ampache). Right now the only real solution for these on Linux is Sonixd, so an alternative would be sweet.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks! Honestly, that’s really out of scope for this project. Maybe you could mount the folder with your music locally, although I can already tell you it’s gonna be pretty slow if you have a medium/large music library.

      Have you looked into Plex Amp? I’ve been told it’s decent.