Hello, I wasn’t particularly satisfied with any existing music player for Linux, so I gave it a shot and created my own!
In particular, I feel like there’s a gap between very simple players like Amberol and more complete ones like Tauon.
I hope to fill the gap by having something with a very simple UI, that at the same time can display your music library in an organized fashion.
It’s still under development, but the basic features are there:
- It can play songs
- It displays the music in your library (by default, the “Music” directory on your home)
- You can sort/filter/search songs by album, artist, etc.
- It interacts with the system, so you get notifications, media keys controls, KDE connect integration etc.
Any feedback is welcome!
You can download it on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.mmarco94.tambourine
Source code is on: https://github.com/MMarco94/tambourine-music-player/
I like the design and it looks perfect for me since I store everything locally and tag manually. My only issue is it only “sees” around 600 songs out of the 30 ˙000 I have, leaving some albums with only 1 song and ignoring a lot of artists. Is there a way to force it to notice the rest? Everything is in the same folder
Ah that’s strange, they should be picked up as long as they are in the music folder. Do you mind sharing the format of one of the songs that isn’t recognized?
If you have time, could you open the app from the terminal (
flatpak run io.github.mmarco94.tambourine) and see if any interesting log pops up?