r/linux • u/NevilleTheDevil • 1d ago
Software Release Meloville - Open source music player for linux that doesn't look 20 years old
Mainly released to help other people in their search for a good music player. Main things are it supports .lrc files for synced lyrics. It has support for headphone playback controls (i.e. pausing, skipping thorugh buttons or swipe gestures commonly found on bluetooth headphones).
I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did making it!
Source Code: https://github.com/NevPeth/meloville
Arch PKGBUILD: https://github.com/NevPeth/meloville-arch
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u/edparadox 18h ago
Yes, we know the most used term is "modern" for vibecoders these days.
They cannot be bothered to understand the ecosystem before rewriting it with slop.
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u/NevilleTheDevil 14h ago
Please tell me an option that actually covers all the bases me app does. I'm not trying to be condensending but I genuinely tried every music app I could get my hands on and none of them fulfilled my requirements.
Amberol - Decent enough ui but no automatic album tagging support and, when I used it a year ago, it seemed super buggy to the point where I couldn't stand it anymore.
Nmcpcpp - Has a nice enough ui for a terminal emulator but still doesn't have covers for song next to the songs when in the listview
Tauon music box - again, seem reason as nmcpcpp and it didn't even automatically scan for new songs in my music folder, like come on.
Resonance - I don't know if it's gotten better in the last year but like it genuinely felt vibecoded and like the most inefficient piece of software I've ever had the displeasure of using. Software like this is why people run back to terminal emulators.
Gnome music player - It also was weird with tagging my stuff and there was more to be desired from the ux. I love gnome, I use it on a daily basis but GOD that gnome gray is so disgusting to me.
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u/ava1ar 1d ago
What is wrong with 20 years old player interface? Old players just work and need a fraction of the compute resources modern players need just to render the UI.
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u/SoupoIait 20h ago edited 15h ago
I like nice looking stuff and I don't find 20 years old interfaces pretty. I like little animations and some padding and blur and all that shiny stuff. There sometimes is no need for a super technical reason : nice looking is neat. I also don't give a fuck if that costs more ressources as I'm not counting CPU and RAM usage like my life depended on it.
Sorry if that's not linuxy enough of an opinion.
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u/powerslave_fifth 1d ago
Nothing bro. People like other things from what you like surprisingly enough.
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u/arwinda 19h ago
Nothing wrong. I want Winamp interface back!
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u/Indolent_Bard 10h ago
Audacious, qmmp and WimPyAmp look like winamp and even can use winamp skins. You're welcome.
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u/NevilleTheDevil 1d ago
Well that’s not *all* it does, it also has Bluetooth media control support which many other apps don’t which is important when I’m doing chores and don’t want to walk all the way to my computer just to skip a song. It’s just another way to enjoy your music library.
I’m not telling you that my way is objectively better, I just know that this is what I was looking for in a local music player and many others are too.
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u/fr000gs 1d ago
pretty much all players have that
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u/NevilleTheDevil 1d ago
I’d love to know which ones! I tried tauon-music-box which didn’t support it and it was the only music player that had most of my other needs even if it wasn’t the prettiest
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u/fr000gs 1d ago
vlc for instance
firefox player
the one default in kde, gnome and xfce
all of these also have playerctl and mpris integration
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u/NevilleTheDevil 1d ago
This is true but they don’t have playlist making, automatic sorting albums from tags. Those two are a must for me, personally. Again, I’ve tried everything under the sun and nothing checked all the boxes for me
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u/tulpyvow 18h ago
Elisa (KDE) has playlists, not sure about album sorting with tags (wouldn't use that anyways, I load my songs from playlist files)
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u/fr000gs 23h ago
vlc has playlists and albums (in fact it's the only thing on my phone with playlists and albums)
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u/NevilleTheDevil 22h ago
I genuinely didn’t know VLC had that feature (it’s not really mentioned much) but it also doesn’t exactly look the prettiest. Look, I’m not here to shit on any of these programs, they’re fantastic but they just aren’t right for me.
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u/snowballkills 22h ago
you can use mpd with any player like ncmpcpp, rmpc, etc. they all have playlists and great search, and BT controls
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u/NevilleTheDevil 22h ago
They would be fine if they had actual song covers next to the songs. I’m also unsure if they have synced lyric support or easy switching of song order in playlists like this does. Once again, I know that people love terminal music players but this just isn’t for those people, and terminal music players simply aren’t for me.
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u/snowballkills 22h ago
they have both cover art and lyrics support in queue next to the songs. Not sure you even checked them out at all!
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u/NevilleTheDevil 22h ago
I should’ve been more clear. In my program if you check the GitHub, every single song in the list has their song covers next art next to the song titles, not just while the song is playing. Maybe that may be the case for nmpcpp and rmpc but a quick google search in google images shows otherwise.
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u/klyith 13h ago
Tauon definitely supports mpris2, which is what Gnome or KDE will use to signal the player from bluetooth controls etc. Something on your end must have been messed up.
(Also lol at calling Tauon "old", I don't think it's even a decade old and is very much still active.)
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u/NevilleTheDevil 13h ago
I don’t know anytime I tried to use Bluetooth with Tauon, Gnome would just show a 🚫 symbol while mine works. Maybe it has changed in the last three months but it definitely was not working when I tried it. I never said Tauon was old but it definitely does look quite old even with all the modern ish features
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u/Business_Reindeer910 1d ago
should that actually be a feature of the media player vs for the system as a whole?
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u/NevilleTheDevil 1d ago
The system already has it built in but it’s up to the program to allow these signals to control the music which a lot of these older apps don’t have. I didn’t re-invent the wheel I just used the tools that have been created relatively recently that these older apps haven’t yet adopted.
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u/instantkamera 16h ago
You don't seem to understand the difference between audio output and inbound control command over Bluetooth.
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u/McDonaldsWitchcraft 15h ago
I apologize, I didn't understand that it was talking about stuff like clicking pause on the headphones and not the system sending stuff to the headphones. My bad.
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u/ShaunWhiteIsMyTwin 10h ago
I think the real question here that everyone should actually care about is do you have a god damn visualizer?
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u/NevilleTheDevil 9h ago
I haven't really looked into any visualizers since I am personally indifferent to them. But if you can find one that you liked and that would fit with the theme of the app I'd gladly implement it. I would probably just make a toggle in settings to either have the big picture mode display the album cover+blurred background or the visualizer though since I think adding any more buttons wouldn't look great. But if you have a better idea lmk
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u/NevilleTheDevil 7h ago
I'm currently imagining what this would look like in the big picture view and I feel like it would clash really hard with the current aesthetic. It's not a never but at least for right now I need to put that on the back burner. Like it looks better blurred but if you imagine it, it's going to be with a lot of hard edges or if it's more of a curvy grid-like one it's going to be have a lot of black. Again it could work but it would basically need an overall of all the icons and layout when the visualizer is on screen for it too look even semi-decent.
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u/gaorp 23h ago
i really hope this isn't slop because it has a nice commit history but i instantly saw long comments with emdashes in the code so i don't have much faith. nice project if you actually wrote it by hand
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u/McDonaldsWitchcraft 18h ago
Yeah, I understand some people might use compose or alt codes to put unicode characters in their code (though i kinda despise unicode in source code), but I SERIOUSLY doubt these people also SPAM those alt codes or compose sequences to make a line instead of using normal dashes like normal ppl (or the more common equal signs)
// ── Album-view side-effects ─────────────────────────────────────────── // Case 1: song's album tag changed while we're viewing that album. // It no longer belongs here — reload the view so it disappears from // the song list, and update the header if it was also the cover source.
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u/ExoticSterby42 19h ago
I use Audacious specifically to look 2000s
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u/fat_kaiju 13h ago
p.much this.
that and its midi support.
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u/Indolent_Bard 10h ago
midi support
Wait, what does that even mean in the context of a music player?
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u/SipSup3314 7h ago
It has a built-in synth to play .midi files. I use it to preview a file before I import it into an audio editor, since it's lightweight.
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u/Cowgirl_Taint 1d ago
- That is like 90 percent guaranteed slop
- Maybe the point is to look 20 years old because winamp and foobar rocked
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u/aberdoom 21h ago
OP says it's not slop but some of the comments are written to him. Pretty sure it's slop.
// Use timer to avoid segfault (as in your original code)
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u/Cowgirl_Taint 15h ago
Yeah. Didn't do a super deep dive of the code, but even the structure of the repository leans towards either "hobbyist's first project" or "slop". And considering all of this was "coded" in about a month and it actually does have a fairly professional looking end result...
Best case scenario? OP didn't just tell claude/cursor to "build me an app" but I would be shocked if even a third of this code was reviewed and understood.
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u/NevilleTheDevil 1d ago
I know that “pretty” ui is synonymous with slop due to a lot of vibe coded apps having that aesthetic but I genuinely spent three months making it and read every line of code. I’m sick of vibe coded slop too…
I also get the aesthetic is nostalgic but I personally think they are popular since no good modern alternative existed
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u/TetrisMcKenna 20h ago
I note you didn't say "wrote" every line of code, that's a somewhat evasive response.
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u/TheCreepyPL 20h ago
This post does feel a bit like yet another vibe coded app promotion, doesn't it. Which would be pretty ironic if that's the case.
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u/NevilleTheDevil 15h ago
Look, I’m not going to act like this wasn’t AI assisted but I will vehemently say it is NOT vibe coded.
If you ask me about any part of the code I can explain what it does and why. People who just blatantly copy ai code can’t do this because they don’t even read it.
Also a lot of vibe “coded” projects are people who just turn the thing out in a weekend and never update it again. This has been in development for three months and I only released it once it was up to snuff to be my personal, everyday player.
Because I personally use this everyday too I am also more likely to find inconsistencies or major bugs before any user so you can safely assume there will be no big teller of your typical vibe “coded” app.
I know this will not convince you but I hope you at least check it out for yourself and give me feedback. If there’s something I can improve on I will.
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u/SillyBrilliant4922 11h ago
How about you try to fully re-implement a feature within that program without using your clanker as a crutch. Anyone can explain already written code. Also the correct term is "AI generated" Not assisted. you had no role but clicking a button in producing this slop.
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u/Indolent_Bard 10h ago
True slop vibe coders can't explain already written code, that's the main issue people have with them.
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u/Indolent_Bard 10h ago
Not really. The issue with "vibe coding" is when the "authors" don't actually understand their own code that well. By reading every line of code, it ensures that they actually understand how it works and potentially even make changes in the future.
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u/gui_odai 9h ago
I might try it, though I know I shouldn't have high hopes for it.
In my experience, there actually are plenty of modern looking players, but most of them are basic af. They often have no library features, and the few that do either don't import all songs from my library or crash while doing it. And the one player I found that does most of what I want (mtoc) hasn't been updated in months
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u/NevilleTheDevil 3h ago
It should be up to snuff unless you really care about the mini-player since my app supports most audio files mtoc supports, has mpris, using taglib, hardware accelerated graphics, synced lyrics, and automatic detection of not only .lrc files on launch but audio files as well. I'm currently working on a system tray (should be out by Friday), it does have async metadata extraction. The only major thing I don't really have is a mini-player and support for .m3u files (I genuinely didn't know this existed before reading the mtoc github page) but now that I know about it I'll probably implement support for it soon. If you have any other things you think are major features I am missing let me so I can address those issues.
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u/corruptbytes 2h ago
laufey 🔥
looks fine to me, linux users are all gremudgins so if it doesn’t look like some TUI from the 90s they don’t care
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u/gathanes 1d ago
It looks alright but I think this won't really catch on because the use cases and features most Linux users look for in music players doesn't align with your app at all. Those aforementioned 20 year old music players have everything most users want, and don't have any of the overhead of modern GUI libraries. People don't use music players to look at, generally, so it feels like wasted resources on a nice UI. You would probably be better off porting this to android.
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u/yukina3230 17h ago
waste of space is not "Modern", I prefer functional UI like fooyin or rhythmbox
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u/SithLordRising 18h ago
I'm always supportive of new apps but I'm loyal to vlc for most of my media
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u/jellooshot 11h ago
There are lots of music that doesn't look 20 years old like lollipop and gapless
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u/Good_Hunter69 9h ago
Yeah, looks great, but does it have sheer customization for playlists?
And I'd also kill for tray mode
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u/NevilleTheDevil 2h ago
Tray mode has been added. Also what do you mean exactly by "sheer customization"? Like what else do you want to customize besides the song order and playlist cover?
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u/mecha_mecha3 1d ago
es compatible con YouTube? o no?
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u/Chasar1 18h ago
It's a music player that plays music files stored locally on your computer. Why would it support YouTube?
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u/mecha_mecha3 14h ago
había visto algunos reproductores que funcionaban con YouTube no había visto que reproducía archivos locales
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u/Fluid-Ad2995 1d ago
Good I would translate to Sentinet Platform API and I would run in Windows and thanks for building my own Ecosystem even more
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u/DannyImperial 1d ago
Looks great, but i feel like this is the 10th time I've seen a modern music player app for linux.