/next-music-player

A blazing fast, information dense media player built with Next.js.

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Next.js Music Player

A nice GUI for playing/viewing local media files.

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Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/leerob/music-player
cd music-player
pnpm install

Running Locally

Use the included setup script to create your .env file:

pnpm db:setup

Add local audio files to a top level tracks/ folder (git ignored). One option to download files is yt-dlp. You can provide arguments to download the song metadata, as well as the cover image, too.

yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=..."

Then, run the database migrations and seed the database with a songs and playlists:

pnpm db:migrate
pnpm db:seed

Finally, run the Next.js development server:

pnpm dev

You can view your database contents with Drizzle Studio locally:

pnpm db:studio

Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser to see the app in action.

Features

  • ✅ Uses MediaSession API to sync track metadata with system controls
  • ✅ Press space to play/pause from anywhere in the app
  • ✅ View for all tracks
  • ✅ Click on song row to play
  • ✅ Move between songs in tracklist with up/down or j/k
  • ✅ Move between playlists panel and tracklist with h/l
  • ✅ Now playing animation in track row
  • ✅ Support for both local or remote files
  • ✅ Mobile responsiveness
  • ✅ Drag on the progress bar to seek song
  • ✅ Create a new playlist in the UI
  • ✅ Image upload to Vercel Blob for playlist images
  • ✅ Add/remove songs to a playist in the UI
  • ✅ Basic search over songs
  • Persist active song to storage
  • Hook up the volume controls