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A music player using the file system to order/structure files (rather than audio tags)
Features:
Requirements:
python3 --version
(on Linux-based systems) or python --version
(on Windows and MacOS)pip
/pip3
to install)Tested on:
pip3 install file-player
pip install file-player
file-player
from the command line
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
On Ubuntu: Open with -> Open with other application -> custom command -> enter "file-player" in the text area
FAQs
A music player using the file system to order/structure files (rather than audio tags)
We found that file-player demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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