Euphonica

An MPD client with delusions of grandeur

Linux Free GPL-3.0-or-later

About

Euphonica is an MPD client with integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading & more.

Responsive GTK4 LibAdwaita UI for most MPD features, from basic things like playback controls, queue reordering and ReplayGain to things like output control, crossfade and MixRamp configuration
Automatically fetch album arts, artist avatars and (synced) song lyrics from external sources (currently supports Last.fm, MusicBrainz and LRCLIB). All external metadata are cached locally & persisted on disk to avoid needless API calls.
Playlist browser and editor
Integrated MPRIS client with background running supported (via the XDG Background protocol).
Built-in, customisable spectrum visualiser, reading from MPD FIFO or system PipeWire.
Rate albums (requires MPD 0.24+)
Live bitrate readout + audio quality indicators (lossy, lossless, hi-res, DSD) for individual songs as well as albums & detailed format printout
Browse your library by album, artist and folders with multiselection support. Browsing by genre and other criteria are planned.
Sort albums by name, AlbumArtist or release date (provided you have the tags)
Asynchronous search for large collections
Configurable multi-artist tag splitting
Performant album art fetching & display (cached with Stretto)
Super-fast, multithreaded, statically-cached background blur powered by libblur
Volume knob with dBFS readout support ('cuz why not?)
User-friendly configuration UI & GSettings backend
MPD passwords are securely stored in your user's login keyring
Commands are bundled into lists for efficient MPD-side processing where possible.

PipeWire permissions

Euphonica requires PipeWire capture permissions for its PipeWire visualizer backend, but currently it is only possible to specify a "blanket" PipeWire permission that also allows screen recording, microphone access, etc. Euphonica does not make use of these extra permissions, and will be updated to use a more restricted "audio portal" when one becomes available.

Screenshot content copyright information & disclaimer

Album arts contained in the screenshots have been substituted with random photos from Pexel. All credits go to the original authors.

Euphonica is solely a music player programme and does not provide any media content or sources. Users must provide their own content or manually configure Euphonica to access third party online services.

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