neithern / g4music

A fast fluent lightweight music player written in GTK4, with a beautiful and adaptive user interface.

G4Music

Play your music elegantly.

G4Music is a fast fluent lightweight music player written in GTK4, with a beautiful and adaptive user interface, focuses on high performance for large music collection.

Features

• Supports most music file types, samba and any other remote protocols (depends on GIO and GStreamer).
• Fast loading and parsing thousands of music files in very few seconds, monitor local changes.
• Low memory usage for large music collection with album covers (embedded and external), no thumbnail caches to store.
• Group and sorts by album/artist/title, shuffle list, full-text searching.
• Gaussian blurred cover as background, follows GNOME light/dark mode.
• Drag-drop from GNOME Files, showing music in Files.
• Supports audio peaks visualizer.
• Supports gapless playback.
• Supports normalizing volume with ReplayGain.
• Supports pipewire and other audio sink.
• Supports MPRIS control.
• Only need less than 500KB to install.

Install from Flathub

Install from Snapcraft (unofficial)

FreeBSD Dependencies

pkg install vala meson libadwaita gstreamer1-plugins-all gettext

How to build

It is written in Vala, simple and clean code, with few third-party dependencies:

1. Clone the code from gitlab.

2. Install vala, develop packages of gtk4, libadwaita, gstreamer.

3. Run in the project directory:

   meson setup build --buildtype=release

   meson install -C build

Change Log

Check the release tags for change log.