Play your music elegantly.
A fast, fluent, light weight music player written in GTK4, with a beautiful, adaptive user interface, so named G4Music. It is also focusing on high performance, for those people who has huge number of songs.
- Supports most music file types, samba and any other remote protocols (depends on GIO and GStreamer).
- Fast loading and parsing thousands of music files in very few seconds, monitor local changes.
- Low memory usage for huge playlist with album covers, no thumbnail caches to store.
- Sorts by album/artist/title and shuffle, full-text searching.
- Supports embedded album art and external album cover.
- Gaussian blurred cover as background, follows GNOME light/dark mode.
- Drag-drop from GNOME Files, showing music in Files.
- Supports audio peaks visualizer.
- Supports gapless playback.
- Supports normalizing volume with ReplayGain.
- Supports pipewire and other audio sink.
- Supports MPRIS control.
- Only need less than 500KB to install.
It is written in Vala, simple and clean code, with few third-party dependencies:
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Clone the code from gitlab.
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Install vala, develop packages of gtk4, libadwaita, gstreamer.
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Run in the project directory:
meson setup build --buildtype=releasemeson install -C build
Check the release tags for change log.