file-player

File Player

Features:

• Uses as structure the file system, rather than audio tags
• Fade out of tracks when switching/stopping/pausing
• Stopping playing after current track
• Duplicate track

Installation

Requirements:

• Python 3.8 (possibly working with earlier versions of Python)
  • you can see the python version by typing python3 --version (on Linux-based systems) or python --version (on Windows and MacOS)
  • Python 3.8 is included with Ubuntu 20.04
• (Other requirements will be installed when using pip/pip3 to install)

Tested on:

• Xubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Windows 7 (might be a bit tricky to get this working)

Ubuntu

pip3 install file-player

Windows

• Download and install Python 3.x (Windows 7 supports up to 3.8, but not higher, so if you are using Windows 7 please make sure to download the 3.8 version rather than the latest)
• pip install file-player

Starting

file-player from the command line

Usage

Quick start

The left side shows the file system and the right side shows the play list

To add play a track you can double-click on a file on the left side and it will be added and played

Integration with file manager

On Ubuntu: Open with -> Open with other application -> custom command -> enter "file-player" in the text area