atolla: a jellyfin music player app

[tx3stn]

As there have been a few discussion posts about community building, I thought I'd share my app I've built with Valdi.

https://github.com/tx3stn/atolla

atolla is a music player app for Jellyfin media server.
I built it to replace my use of Plexamp after I shifted all my media over to Jellyfin but couldn't find a music player I liked enough to want to swap from Plexamp.

I've been daily driving it for the past 6+ months, and love it so much I can't imagine moving to anything else.

The repo builds apps for android, ios, and also CLI's for linux and macos.
The CLI tools aren't included in the releases yet, but are functional to build from the repo. I'm working on multi-room synchronized audio system (like Sonos or Snapcast), so you can install a headless player on whatever device you want and drive speakers across your house/apartment/wherever. (I've got this fully working, just in the process of fixing bugs/reviewing security etc, so will have it finished and fully released soon).

I started the Valdi repo in March this year (after a few other POCs with other frameworks), so have been actively building a Valdi codebase for 8 months, and have contributed some fixes and functionality to Valdi, so do have some good experience with using it in real applications if you have any questions.

give atolla a try and let me know how you get on ✌️

[tx3stn]

Some more build details if they interest any one else, I'm making use of Valdi modules to share code between the different apps/clis and keep boundaries defined.

I'm using zig for some Polyglot modules for code I want to share between apps, and the clis so I can write the code once then use the same algorithms for colour palette generation, waveform extraction etc.

There's nothing in the Valdi docs about working with zig, but it's C interop works wonders for easily including any zig code you might want in your project.

[clholgat]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

Can you tell us more about your development experience? What worked? What didn't?