A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)
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Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP
New in this version:
New playback pipeline with improved performance and latency (built on miniaudio)
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
Well this is awesome... pulling it now.
hell yea, Kew is AWESOME
Sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar.
tip of the glass
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.
How is it on raspbian? Would it run on a pi zero 2w? I'll try it when I get home tonight.
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.
Terminal visualizer? Exactly what I've been looking for
Oh hell yeah, thats the kind stuff I want
<3
No MIT? No javascript? Is this a dream? I'll save this to check it out tomorrow, but great job already!
Thanks man! Yeah I've tried to make this project as pure as possible.
What's wrong with MIT?
It's a "permissive" that allows big players to steal the value of contributors
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
Luke Smith is a far-right neo-Nazi–sympathizer; there's better advocates for copyleft to quote.
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.
ah wasn't aware, sowy
though his point still stands in this regard
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.
Sorry, I'm not taking anything with the word "cuck" in the title seriously.
GPL forces anything using the code to be FOSS, whereas MIT does not
Well, I'll give it one thing. It's easier to spell than my current terminal music player: ncmpcpp
What do you mean? You don't just jam nctomnarstoiearste into the terminal? Am I the only one who does that?
we need sl for ncmpcppc
alias music="ncmpcpp"
My goto is:
nc CTRL+R
nc is reserved for netcat- can’t use that….
inbefore you need to check a port and accidentally start blasting music
Can't accidentality start blasting music if I never stop
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.
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.
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.
No, there isn't. Maybe there should be.
You could make an issue for it if you want it!
@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
metathesiophobia
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.
@ravachol hows manjaro with legacy nvidia? anything that has a specific command for moonlight sonata has to be good lol
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.