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FOSS local music player built in Godot! Genuine feedback?
I’ve tried every music player on Linux at this point and almost none had every feature I wanted nor felt comfortable to look at, and there was always a tradeoff between functionality and beauty (ehem GTK apps), so my brother and I have been creating our own! Free, open-source, Linux-native, with support for:
* Most major file types, including FLAC, WAV, MP3, OGG, and more.
* Full local media metadata scanning, organizing, and display.
* Display of both plain and synced lyrics with the ability to switch between or prefer either. Will display lyrics whether they’re embedded in the file, next to the file, or anywhere else in your chose directory (if, of course, properly named). Songs missing lyrics can have lyrics downloaded from LRCLIB automatically.
* Metadata gap filling for album art, release year, artist picture and bio, and more.
* Connect to external metadata sources such as Discogs with your own API keys.
* CSV, txt, and m3u playlist importing.
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Most players either ignore lyrics entirely or only show plain text. Letting users prefer synced but fall back to plain, and pulling from LRCLIB automatically, is exactly how it should work.
If you haven't already, take a quick look at Tauon Music Box (great UI, weaker lyrics) and Strawberry (feature-rich, less modern UI).
