Play your music elegantly.
Gapless (AKA: G4Music) is a light weight music player written in GTK4, focuses on large music collection.
- 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 large music collection with album covers (embedded and external), no thumbnail caches to store.
- Group and sorts by album/artist/title, shuffle list, full-text searching.
- Fluent adaptive user interface for different screen (Desktop, Tablet, Mobile).
- Gaussian blurred cover as background, follows GNOME light/dark mode.
- Supports creating and editing playlists, drag cover to change order or add to another playlist.
- Supports drag and drop with other apps.
- Supports audio peaks visualizer.
- Supports gapless playback.
- Supports normalizing volume with ReplayGain.
- Supports specified audio sink.
- Supports MPRIS control.
pkg install vala meson libadwaita gstreamer1-plugins-all gettext gtk4
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=release
meson install -C build
Check the release tags for change log.