New in this version:
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New playback pipeline with improved performance and latency (built on miniaudio)
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Real-time ASCII visualizations (via Chroma)
Free, open source, no tracking, completely offline
Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql5ZKeaX2MQ
More info: https://codeberg.org/ravachol/kew https://github.com/ravachol/kew
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.
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.
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.
No, there isn’t. Maybe there should be.
You could make an issue for it if you want it!