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kew 4.0 released (offline terminal music player and library browser) (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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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

kew music player
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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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