• tangonov@lemmy.ca
    3·
    12 hours ago

    Its so funny that we call these things “offline music players” now. They used to just be music players. I’m excited to throw my 3000+ tracks at it

    • ravachol@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Don’t hesitate to let me know about your experience, perhaps through DM. I’m very interested in handling large music collections right.

  • blackjam_alex@lemmy.world
    12·
    17 hours ago

    I tried it today and I didn’t like it. The key configuration is very unintuitive.

    Also… Isn’t that visualization engine vibe coded?

    • ravachol@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      14 hours ago

      What is unintuitive? Enter to enqueue music, Space for pause, Left and Right arrow to change the track. Backspace to clear the list. Escape or q to quit.

      The thing that might throw you off might be alt+enter for enqueue + immediate play, which doesn’t happen with enter if something is already playing. It’s pretty easy to get used to though.

      I’m not the developer of Chroma, you’d have to ask them. I think it looks cool though. You don’t need it to run kew.

      • blackjam_alex@lemmy.world
        2·
        12 hours ago

        First of all, I apologize. Now that I re-read my comment it sounds a bit rude. Sorry about that.

        I was accustomed to the moc player configuration, you move like you’re going through directories.

        Best of luck with your project.

  • Goun@lemmy.ml
    19·
    2 days ago

    No MIT? No javascript? Is this a dream? I’ll save this to check it out tomorrow, but great job already!

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 days ago

    Well, I’ll give it one thing. It’s easier to spell than my current terminal music player: ncmpcpp

  • JakoJakoJako13@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • ravachol@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 day ago

      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.

  • varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • ravachol@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        2 days ago

        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.