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

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Post by opan »

amlib wrote: post #23
VyseofArcadia wrote: post #12

Slick! 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.

Amarok? Not Clementine? Or was that also an Amarok fork?

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

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Post by retrodaredevil »

I've been using Plexamp for the past 4 years, and its been great for music on my phone and computer. One thing it lacks is a good offline mode. Recently I started syncing my media to my laptop as a backup, and as a way to locally play 5.1 FLAC audio (Plexamp doesn't support 5.1 audio).

I'll have to check this out. I wonder if it can play 5.1 audio correctly?

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

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Post by jeffhuys »

ravachol wrote: post #52
jeffhuys wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why, though?

Because I'm just one guy with a few people helping me a little bit. I needed a limited scope. But I'm actually thinking of porting it to Mac now.

I don’t think you need to port that much as macOS is based om freeBSD

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

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Post by martinbaun »

ravachol wrote: post #7
martinbaun wrote: post #2

This is exactly what I was looking for! I actually started writing something myself. And I "compiled from source" as I am using Fedora, but it was just one command. Thank you!

Glad you are liking it!

I love it man, this is great! I used to use mocp but I could never get it to work on Fedora.

This here is even better, I love the minimal approach.

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

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Post by ravachol »

martinbaun wrote: post #65
ravachol wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad you are liking it!

I love it man, this is great! I used to use mocp but I could never get it to work on Fedora. This here is even better, I love the minimal approach.

That's great! Get involved if you want and suggest features for instance.

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

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Post by raun1 »

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 host my music on an Unraid box on my home LAN, use Plex+Plexamp to serve and access it, and 1000% recommended Plex+Plexamp. It is, without a doubt, the best music app I've used on a phone, including other self-hosting solutions, local apps like Poweramp, and commercial streaming apps like Spotify. I really can't speak of it highly enough.
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