laichiaheng/g4music

A fast, fluent, light weight music player written in GTK4.

G4Music

Play your music in an elegant way.

A fast, fluent, light weight music player written in GTK4, with a beautiful, adaptive user interface, so named G4Music. It is also focusing on high performance, for those people who has huge number of songs.

Features

• Supports most music file types, samba and any other remote protocols (thanks to great GIO and GStreamer).
• Fast loading and parsing thousands of music files in very few seconds.
• Low memory usage for huge playlist with album covers, no thumbnail caches to store.
• Sorts by album/artist/title or shuffle, supports full-text searching.
• Supports embedded album art or external images as album cover, embedded can be exported.
• Gaussian blurred cover as window background, follows GNOME 42 light/dark mode.
• Supports drag-drop from GNOME Files, showing music in Files.
• Supports audio peaks visualizer.
• Supports gapless playback.
• Supports ReplayGain track mode.
• Supports pipewire audio sink.
• Supports MPRIS control.
• Only need less than 400KB to install it.

Install from Flathub

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.