Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux

#31

Post by whoomp12342 » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 6:53 PM UTC

great, now my coworkers will have a new interesting way of rick rolling me -> while I run my build scripts

Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux

#32

Post by smartmic » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 7:15 PM UTC

I use mpd with various clients, mostly also from terminal. mpd support would be great - and actually the only reason for me to try it out.

https://www.musicpd.org/

Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux

#33

Post by jeffhuys » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 7:20 PM UTC

ravachol wrote: post #11

leapon wrote: post #10

brew install failed on macos % brew install kew ... kew: Linux is required for this software. Error: kew: An unsatisfied requirement failed this build.

Yes, unfortunately it only works on Linux and FreeBSD. I should add that to the readme. EDIT: Added.

Why, though?

Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux

#34

Post by jakobdabo » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 7:51 PM UTC

I see what you've done there!

        int randomNumber = getRandomNumber(1, 808);
        if (randomNumber == 808)
                printGlimmeringText(text, nerdFontText, lastRowColor);

Nice project!

Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux

#35

Post by ravachol » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 7:57 PM UTC

jakobdabo wrote: post #34

I see what you've done there! int randomNumber = getRandomNumber(1, 808); if (randomNumber == 808) printGlimmeringText(text, nerdFontText, lastRowColor); Nice project!

That's an easter egg! Gj! You're the first that has mentioned it.

Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux

#36

Post by n2j3 » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 8:09 PM UTC

Cool, but does it scrobble?

Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux

#37

Post by jhatemyjob » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 8:17 PM UTC

jeffhuys wrote: post #33

ravachol wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, unfortunately it only works on Linux and FreeBSD. I should add that to the readme. EDIT: Added.

Why, though?

Cus they like Stallman too much

Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux

#38

Post by sigmonsays » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 8:18 PM UTC

Trying to nix run it I get a ton of insecure warnings and it lists the CVEs

Is this a nix thing (i'm unsure what freeimage-unstable is)

       error: Package ‘freeimage-unstable-2021-11-01’ in /nix/store/20yis5w6g397plssim663hqxdiiah2wr-source/pkgs/development/libraries/freeimage/default.nix:72 is marked as insecure, refusing to evaluate.


       Known issues:
        - CVE-2021-33367
        - CVE-2021-40262
        - CVE-2021-40263
        - CVE-2021-40264
        - CVE-2021-40265
        - CVE-2021-40266
        - CVE-2023-47992
        - CVE-2023-47993
        - CVE-2023-47994
        - CVE-2023-47995
        - CVE-2023-47996

Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux

#39

Post by nvllsvm » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 8:18 PM UTC

cdaringe wrote: post #13

I 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 used various Subsonic clients for a number of years, but the clients were always lacking. Android clients were buggy or didn't prioritize local caching and I preferred to use mpd+ncmpcpp on my laptop.

I ended up switching to fully-local media after realizing that my 956GB flac+mp3 would be ~159GB when converted to Opus. I now use https://github.com/nvllsvm/harmonize to maintain a 128kbps Opus version of my main library and Syncthing to synchronize it to my phone and laptop.

--- side note, Auxio is the client I'm using on Android with my synced library.

Re: Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux

#40

Post by ravachol » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 8:24 PM UTC

sigmonsays wrote: post #38

Trying to nix run it I get a ton of insecure warnings and it lists the CVEs Is this a nix thing (i'm unsure what freeimage-unstable is) error: Package ‘freeimage-unstable-2021-11-01’ in /nix/store/20yis5w6g397plssim663hqxdiiah2wr-source/pkgs/development/libraries/freeimage/default.nix:72 is marked as insecure, refusing to evaluate. Known issues: - CVE-2021-33367 - CVE-2021-40262 - CVE-2021-40263 - CVE-2021-40264 - CV…

FreeImage is used by Chafa to display the covers in the terminal.

The version of kew packaged for Nix is very old: v1.5.2. We're at version 2.8.2. So it's more than a year old, from very early on in the project.