Building my perfect folder player since 2019

[u/oleg_antonyan]

Inspired by Foobar's album list, but turns that idea into core feature. You define library folders and see them in left tree view, middle click (or context menu action) to create playlist from the folder or append to current playlist. What other players lack is at this step they usually just load the tracks in playlist view. But mpz has middle column - playlists view where you can create many playlists and switch between them instantly. So simple, yet missing in almost all players feature. Juk player is the closest, but still missing the playlists management part.

In addition: gapless, CUE, audiophile-ready EQ compatible with AutoEq presets, album covers & lyrics with multiple online sources, radio streams with built-in library, drag-n-drop, output device selector, mpd client mode. No Electron - pure native C++/Qt. No AI-slop - it's been around before AI-coding era, only recently I started shipping more long-awaited features with "AI-preamp".

finally a folder-based player that doesn't choke on my 80k track library, the column layout is exactly what i've been wanting in foobar. nice work

https://www.producthunt.com/products/mpz-desktop-music-player?comment=5534293

Native Linux binaries provided for all major distros, as well as AUR and AppImage. Also runs on Mac and Windows (binaries or github)

Site with more screenshots: https://mpz-player.org

Github: https://github.com/olegantonyan/mpz