blue-music

A super light-weight music player written in Rust. This is just a project that delves into learning Rust and extends the example given in Rust Programming By Example hopefully until it becomes a fully featured music player.

Note to self: Qt may be worth using over GTK+ in a future reiteration of this project

Testing Instructions

Dependencies

• GTK 3
• Pulse Audio

If compiling, make sure you have the relevant development versions of these dependencies

Download

Grab the latest binaries here

Linux

1. Extract the archive
2. Navigate to 'blue-music' directory
3. Make sure you own the binary file: $ chmod +x blue-music
4. Execute: $ ./blue-music

Windows

1. Double-click

Goals

• A decent desktop music player
• Smoother transitions between songs (closest moods, genres, volume, etc.)

Complete

• CMD-line shuffling and playing GUI Controls
• Support for FLACs
• Genre-scored shuffling by hill climb Fully operational music playback
• Recursive folder loading

Todo

• GUI A better looking GUI
• More accurate song timing
• Opening multiple files / open a folder Options for both
• Refactor code to use relm patterns Refactor to be safer
• Fast-forwarding Faster fast-forwading
• Support for MP3, WAV, WEBM, OGG
• NN-based intelligent shuffling
• Actually getting to a releasable state

Known Issues

• Failure to display certain genre strings in now playing bar due to special characters