Dynastix: Qt5 Music Player

A simple Qt5 music player reworked from MPQt5
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Table of Contents

About The Project
- Built With
Getting Started
- Prerequisites
- Installation
Usage
Roadmap
Contributing
License
Contact
Acknowledgments

About The Project

This is starlight; a supposed-to-be revival of MPQt5 and is also my starting point on Qt5/C++ programming.

Alongside my small projects, this is probably the most promising one out of all of them. While being terrible at first, I'll try to improve it over time :)

But why? We already have better music players; like rhythmbox, or audacious, or juk???

Here's why:

Boredom.

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Built With

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Getting Started

Since I did not have setup the workflow for this repository for an automated build, you'll have to build the package yourself for now.

Prerequisites

Get dependencies

GCC, Make, and Git

sudo apt-get install gcc g++ gdb cmake make build-essential git

Qt5 (including dependencies for multimedia5)

sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev qtdeclarative5-dev qtmultimedia5-dev libqt5multimediawidgets5 libqt5multimedia5-plugins libqt5multimedia5 qtwebengine5-dev

On source version 0.2 or newer, the project is being rebased to the Vvave project

QT: websockets, KConfigCore, KNotifications, KI18n, webenginewidgets (extra: taglib)

sudo apt-get install libkf5i18n-dev libqt5webenginewidgets5 libkf5notifications-dev libkf5config-dev libqt5websockets5-dev libtagc0-dev

Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/revoscode/dynastix

Change to source directory
```
cd dynastix/src
```
Generate makefile and build the binary
```
qmake;make
```
Test run if it works:
```
./QtMusicPlayer
```

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Usage

No additional arguments are needed when running from the Terminal, but I'll add some. Someday.

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Roadmap

See this issue for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

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Contributing

Contributions are what makes this project better. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

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Contact

Twitter - @veuxTW

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Acknowledgments

Acknowledging the following for this project:

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Babe

Tiny Qt Babe Music Player

Babe is a tiny Qt music player to keep your favorite songs at hand

https://milohr.github.io/BabeIt/

Babe will handle your whole music collection, letting you create custom playlists to organize your music.

You can also filter your music by artist, title, album, genre, date and location. Babe let's you babe-mark your favorite YouTube music videos into your local collection by using the Chromium extension.

Think of Babe as the playlist where all your favorite tracks at the moment are. And when needed you also have an integrated collection manager.

(a previous unfinished gtk3 version is still in my repository and I plan to turn it into a simple version of Noise for the Pantheon desktop of elementaryOS)

you need to have [ taglib - knotification lib - ki18n lib - qt 5.8 libs ]installed in order to compile this app from source

any extra help to package this app is welcome and I'm willing to solve any doubts or questions about it.

To run:

qmake-qt5 && make && ./Babe

To try the Youtube Chromium extension

In Chrome/mium go to chrome://extensions/, then enable the Developer mode check box in the right upper corner, after that click on "Load unpacked extension..." and select the BabeExtension folder.

Planned Features :
- [5%] youtube-dl streamming
- [90%] babe chrome-chromium extension for youtube-dl supported sites
- [0%] krunner integration
Expected Features :
- [100%] simple music collection manager
- [100%] artist and lyrics info

Features :

-Babe has three different view modes: 
* the mini mode keeps on top of the windows and its size is just 200x200 px ,just displaying the art and playback controls
* the playlist mode is unobtrusive and displays a list of your songs
* the collection view let's you browse your whole music collection by tracks, artists and albums, also let's you get information about the current song playing.

-search keys to filter the results: 

* location:  (example: to see all the tracks from the YouTube extension: "location:youtube")
* artist: (get all matching artists)
* album: (get all matching albums)    
* title: (get all matching titles)
* genre: (get all matching genres)

-quickly append search results, albums, artists and tracks to the main playlist or save them to a specific playlist

-create colored mood tags for tracks that modify the main playlist color

-use the chromium extension to babe your favorite youtube music videos and Babe will fetch the art and metadata of the track

-quickly move between albums/artists with the playAll button that shows on hover in all the artworks

-get native kde notifications for the plasma desktop

-add songs to a queued special playlist if you want to play some track next