https://github.com/neithern/g4music

A fast fluent lightweight music player written in GTK4, with a beautiful and adaptive user interface.
https://github.com/neithern/g4music

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A fast fluent lightweight music player written in GTK4, with a beautiful and adaptive user interface.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/neithern/g4music
• Owner: neithern
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2022-06-06T11:02:21.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-22T01:27:48.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-22T02:34:07.923Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: audio-player, gtk4, music-player
• Language: Vala
• Homepage: https://gitlab.gnome.org/neithern/g4music
• Size: 8.4 MB
• Stars: 160
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 27
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING

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README

        


# Gapless

Play your music elegantly.









Gapless (AKA: G4Music) is a light weight music player written in GTK4, focuses on large music collection.

## Features

- Supports most music file types, Samba and any other remote protocols (depends on GIO and GStreamer).

- Fast loading and parsing thousands of music files in very few seconds, monitor local changes.

- Low memory usage for large music collection with album covers (embedded and external), no thumbnail caches to store.

- Group and sorts by album/artist/title, shuffle list, full-text searching.

- Fluent adaptive user interface for different screen (Desktop, Tablet, Mobile).

- Gaussian blurred cover as background, follows GNOME light/dark mode.

- Supports creating and editing playlists, drag cover to change order or add to another playlist.

- Supports drag and drop with other apps.

- Supports audio peaks visualizer.

- Supports gapless playback.

- Supports normalizing volume with ReplayGain.

- Supports specified audio sink.

- Supports MPRIS control.

## Install from Flathub





## Install from Snapcraft (unofficial)



 


## FreeBSD Dependencies

```bash

pkg install vala meson libadwaita gstreamer1-plugins-all gettext gtk4

```

## How to build 

It is written in Vala, simple and clean code, with few third-party dependencies:

1. Clone the code from gitlab.

2. Install vala, develop packages of gtk4, libadwaita, gstreamer.

3. Run in the project directory:

    `meson setup build --buildtype=release`

    `meson install -C build`

## Change Log

Check the [release tags](https://gitlab.gnome.org/neithern/g4music/-/tags) for change log.