Apart from all the audio goodies, that's one of the few projects around that has actually working make uninstall.
So much thanks for giving a good example
Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux
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Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux
#22Apart from all the audio goodies, that's one of the few projects around that has actually working make uninstall. So much thanks for giving a good example
You uninstalled it. :(
Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux
#23Slick! I love it. It doesn't fit my use-case very well, though. I'm not saying it needs to, but I'm going to put my use-case out there in case someone is looking for project ideas. We have oodles of music players on Linux, GUI and terminal. But we have very few choices that * are optimized for the absurdly, comically large library of someone who has been diligently collecting and organizing music for decades * collec…
Strawberry is a pretty solid Amarok fork that is picking up steam. They are now releasing multiple releases a month and in my opinion it's a great "fully featured", gui first, easy to use player that handles large libraries well.
Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux
#24Slick! I love it. It doesn't fit my use-case very well, though. I'm not saying it needs to, but I'm going to put my use-case out there in case someone is looking for project ideas. We have oodles of music players on Linux, GUI and terminal. But we have very few choices that * are optimized for the absurdly, comically large library of someone who has been diligently collecting and organizing music for decades * collec…
Nice, thanks for sharing your thoughts. Currently, I use navidrome[1], which not really is a player but more a music server, but since it supports the "subsonic" protocol, you can use native apps to connect and manage your stuff (substreamer for android / iOS is all I really need but navidrome also comes with a handy web interface). It also has support for json based smart playlists[2]. 1: https://www.navidrome.org/…
That looks like it checks most of my boxes, but I have a personal/philosophical objection to running a service. The objection is, I don't want to[0]. I just want a local application. Not local-first, I want local-only. Just an application.
[0] and also I think it's insane to add that much complexity to something that is single-user.
Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux
#25Slick! I love it. It doesn't fit my use-case very well, though. I'm not saying it needs to, but I'm going to put my use-case out there in case someone is looking for project ideas. We have oodles of music players on Linux, GUI and terminal. But we have very few choices that * are optimized for the absurdly, comically large library of someone who has been diligently collecting and organizing music for decades * collec…
Yes, while a comically large music library is supported in principle (kew offers to cache your library if it takes a long time to search through), it might not be entirely suited for it. As for your other two suggestions those fall outside the scope of kew. kew is supposed to be simple with minimal bloat.
I will by trying it out on my laptop which has only a fraction of my library and I don't use often enough to want statistics or smart playlists.
Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice, thanks for sharing your thoughts. Currently, I use navidrome[1], which not really is a player but more a music server, but since it supports the "subsonic" protocol, you can use native apps to connect and manage your stuff (substreamer for android / iOS is all I really need but navidrome also comes with a handy web interface). It also has support for json based smart playlists[2]. 1: https://www.navidrome.org/…
That looks like it checks most of my boxes, but I have a personal/philosophical objection to running a service. The objection is, I don't want to[0]. I just want a local application. Not local-first, I want local-only. Just an application. [0] and also I think it's insane to add that much complexity to something that is single-user.
Totally understandable. I recently thought of developing a cross platform player in C# and AvaloniaUI, but cross platform audio is not as easy as it seems, especially trying to use open source libs only and minimizing dependencies.
Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux
#27Apart from all the audio goodies, that's one of the few projects around that has actually working make uninstall. So much thanks for giving a good example
You uninstalled it. :(
No, I didn't! But I was happy to see such a makefile target exists and one doesn't need to go through console logs to see wtf was installed, or just shrug and think "yet another project made like it's the center of the universe"
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#28I love the idea. My music is now 50% cloud only, 50% on disk. I mean, its 100% in the cloud, i just have local files for half available. Ive been thinking about self hosting some music provider thingy (or even just supporting ssh via my dyndns-like capability) to my NAS and bringing music back to self owned files. However, it is work to do when the internet is pretty reliable, costs are low, etc. Those who love this…
I have a airsonic (fork of subsonic, which I used for a long time) server running on a vps. I’ve probably had this for coming on 20 years now.
It works phenomenally.
At some point I was going to mirror it locally, but never got around to it.
It is all backed up in dropbox
Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
You uninstalled it. :(
No, I didn't! But I was happy to see such a makefile target exists and one doesn't need to go through console logs to see wtf was installed, or just shrug and think "yet another project made like it's the center of the universe"
Oh ok, my bad! And GOOD.
I agree it's important. kew is so small it was pretty trivial to do.
Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux
#30Hmm I wonder how hard this would be to hook into my Jellyfin server, has anybody tried?