Firmium

Smooth, fast, simple. Forever.

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Firmium is a desktop Open-Subsonic music streaming client built with Tauri 2. It connects to any Open-Subsonic server and provides lightweight audio playback using native OS audio.

Features

• Lyrics
• Wikipedia artist biographys
• Lightweight audio backend with Rodio
• Pretty UI with 8 color themes
• Open-Subsonic

Gallery

Screenshots coming soon.

Install

Before running Firmium, install the required system libraries for your distribution.

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 libasound2 libssl3

Fedora

sudo dnf install -y webkit2gtk4.1 alsa-lib openssl-libs

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S --needed webkit2gtk-4.1 alsa-lib openssl

Firmium also requires a Secret Service provider (GNOME Keyring or KWallet) for credential storage. This is included in most desktop environments by default.

Installing the app

Arch Linux

yay -S firmium-desktop-bin # or paru -S firmium-desktop-bin

Fedora

# Download and install the .rpm - in the future this will be added to DNF

Debian / Ubuntu

# Download and install the .deb - in the future this will be added to APT

Building from Source

Prerequisites

• Rust 1.70 or later (rustup default stable)
• Node.js 18 or later
• System dependencies for your distribution (see Installing Dependencies)

Steps

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/fossisawesome/firmium.git
cd firmium

# Install Node dependencies
npm install

# Start the development build
npm run tauri dev

For a release build:

npm run build:arch

This produces .deb and .rpm packages under src-tauri/target/release/bundle/, and runs makepkg for the Arch Linux package.

License

GPL-3.0