New in this version:
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New playback pipeline with improved performance and latency (built on miniaudio)
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Real-time ASCII visualizations (via Chroma)
Free, open source, no tracking, completely offline
Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql5ZKeaX2MQ
More info: https://codeberg.org/ravachol/kew https://github.com/ravachol/kew
47 Comments
Goun@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 97d
No MIT? No javascript? Is this a dream? I'll save this to check it out tomorrow, but great job already!
ravachol@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 97d
Thanks man! Yeah I've tried to make this project as pure as possible.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 97d
What's wrong with MIT?
aketawi@quokk.au · 10 pts · 97d
https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-use-the-gpl-and-not-cuck-licenses/
tldr, too permissive and doesn't protect future derivatives from being foss
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 97d
Sorry, I'm not taking anything with the word "cuck" in the title seriously.
tomenzgg@midwest.social · 10 pts · 97d
Luke Smith is a far-right neo-Nazi–sympathizer; there's better advocates for copyleft to quote.
Goun@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 96d
I find it pretty interesting to see people on the opposite sides fighting for fairly similar things, but fuck I can't tolerate these shitheads.
aketawi@quokk.au · 2 pts · 96d
ah wasn't aware, sowy
though his point still stands in this regard
tomenzgg@midwest.social · 5 pts · 96d
Oh, absolutely (I'm a copyleft absolutist so I'm convinced, from the get-go).
But I'd also, just as much, like to avoid the n-word.
malin@dice.camp · 8 pts · 97d
@aketawi The article makes some excellent points, then underlines them with memes with racial slurs. @Alaknar
Goun@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 96d
It's a "permissive" that allows big players to steal the value of contributors
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 97d
Well, I'll give it one thing. It's easier to spell than my current terminal music player:
ncmpcppOlap@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 97d
alias music="ncmpcpp"FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 97d
My goto is:
ncCTRL+Raketawi@quokk.au · 12 pts · 97d
inbefore you need to check a port and accidentally start blasting music
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 97d
Can't accidentality start blasting music if I never stop
dwt@feddit.org · 4 pts · 97d
nc is reserved for netcat- can’t use that….
JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social · 1 pts · 97d
What do you mean? You don't just jam nctomnarstoiearste into the terminal? Am I the only one who does that?
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 97d
we need sl for ncmpcppc
texture@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 97d
hell yea, Kew is AWESOME
ravachol@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 97d
Sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar.
texture@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 97d
tip of the glass
recklessengagement@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 97d
Terminal visualizer? Exactly what I've been looking for
orenj@leminal.space · 4 pts · 97d
Oh hell yeah, thats the kind stuff I want
ravachol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 97d
<3
tangonov@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 96d
Its so funny that we call these things "offline music players" now. They used to just be music players. I'm excited to throw my 3000+ tracks at it
ravachol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 96d
Don't hesitate to let me know about your experience, perhaps through DM. I'm very interested in handling large music collections right.
tangonov@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 86d
It took me a minute to figure out how to get the music to play. Once I did, I was beyond impressed. Auto theming. Fully graphical album art in my terminal. It honestly shocked me in a good way!
ravachol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 85d
Nice!
bipedalsheep@programming.dev · 3 pts · 95d
Yeah! Love kew! It is my go-to player for my local library.
varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 97d
Looks good. I am currently using rmpc/mpd but for my needs, it's overengineered. So I am looking for a simple local player that looks great with Mpris support. kew seems to fit that very well.
What is the advantage of using the NixOS flake? Nixpkg just got 4.0.0 merged.
ravachol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 97d
The explanation that was given to me: "the flake references this repo as a source. You don't need to manually bump versions - when users run nix flake update, they pull the latest commit automatically. So it's mostly self-maintaining since it tracks the repo directly."
You'll likely be fine with the official package.
varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 97d
Is there a hidden resume playback switch I haven't found? When I restart my computer I would like kew to just resume playback like cmus does.
ravachol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 97d
No, there isn't. Maybe there should be.
You could make an issue for it if you want it!
neighborhoodnerd21@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 97d
@ravachol @varnia true but i try to avoid things like that if i have nothing to contribute. so far they both will install and run just fine. basically my only issue would be that i dont want those projects to die. metathesiophobia, i had to look it up but basically this is what it is. the things i love being phased out. but you know the whole attachment is suffering stuff i know its irrational. a tree has to die so another one can sprout or something like that lol
ravachol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 97d
Hey, things move too fast nowadays. I feel the same way. I'm still on manjaro because it works and I want to support those goofs lol. Just keep using cmus, it's a cool project. Or you can have both. kew let's you start music pretty easily, for instance:
kew moon # plays moonlight sonata if you have it
kew nirv # plays your collection of nirvana music (shuffled) if you have it
kew thriller # plays thriller album (in order)
So maybe it has different use cases than cmus I dunno.
neighborhoodnerd21@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 97d
@ravachol hows manjaro with legacy nvidia? anything that has a specific command for moonlight sonata has to be good lol
ravachol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 97d
I think it handles the legacy ones ok. You mean the recent change where nvidia dropped support?
It's just an example command, you can type a partial song name and it matches to the first song or directory you have that contains that string and creates a playlist automatically.
clif@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 96d
Well this is awesome... pulling it now.
JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social · 1 pts · 97d
I tried it! I liked it. Been on my system for a while now. I probably wont switch from ncmpcpp, but it's a great alternative. I think being so used to ncmpcpp is keeping me from switching to anything different. Like I wish I could search just by hitting / then typing in what I. Then I realize learning a whole new system for a music player isn't something of a high priority after using one thing for 15 years. I love the track screen. That's something I wish ncmpcpp had.
mcheva@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 97d
How is it on raspbian? Would it run on a pi zero 2w? I'll try it when I get home tonight.
ravachol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 96d
I actually haven't tried it myself.
The visualizations wont work, but that is an external program (Chroma) that you have to install separately.
I have tested it on tty though and made sure there is a color mode that works with it and that it renders flicker free.
If you try it I'd love to hear impressions, in a dm.
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 96d
I tried it today and I didn't like it. The key configuration is very unintuitive.
Also... Isn't that visualization engine vibe coded?
ravachol@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 96d
What is unintuitive? Enter to enqueue music, Space for pause, Left and Right arrow to change the track. Backspace to clear the list. Escape or q to quit.
The thing that might throw you off might be alt+enter for enqueue + immediate play, which doesn't happen with enter if something is already playing. It's pretty easy to get used to though.
I'm not the developer of Chroma, you'd have to ask them. I think it looks cool though. You don't need it to run kew.
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 96d
First of all, I apologize. Now that I re-read my comment it sounds a bit rude. Sorry about that.
I was accustomed to the moc player configuration, you move like you're going through directories.
Best of luck with your project.
ravachol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 96d
No problem, the design is a bit unorthodox but that's on purpose. Think different.