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Show HN: Kew, A distraction-free terminal music player, now on Windows(github.com)
2 points by ravachol 3mo ago|0 comments
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New kew v4.0 "Love is gonna save us edition" [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ravachol 5mo ago|1 comments
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by ravachol 5mo ago
New in this version: New playback pipeline with improved performance and latency (built on miniaudio) Real-time ASCII visualizations (via Chroma) Free, open source, no tracking, no ads, completely offline. More info: https://code
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by ravachol 9mo ago
Hi, I'm the developer of kew which works for linux, macOS, Android and FreeBSD. The two best places to buy music in my opinion are qobuz and bandcamp. https://github.com/ravachol/kew I encourage you to go check ou
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by ravachol 2y ago
That's great! Get involved if you want and suggest features for instance.
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by ravachol 2y ago
That's already mostly in. From the readme: kew dir <album name> (sometimes it's necessary to specify it's a directory you want) kew song <song> (or a song) kew list <playlist> (or a playlist) The directory c
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by ravachol 2y ago
Like you said, it just takes the first result it finds. There is -e for exact search, which solves some problems, but it's not a full blown solution.
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by ravachol 2y ago
Because I'm just one guy with a few people helping me a little bit. I needed a limited scope. But I'm actually thinking of porting it to Mac now.
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by ravachol 2y ago
done.
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by ravachol 2y ago
He's right actually the quick-install script is pretty barbaric.
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by ravachol 2y ago
Good point. Might be better to just have the commands installing the requirements for the different distros, in the readme.
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by ravachol 2y ago
"Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Freeimage v3.18.0 allows attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted JXR file." I don't know how relevant these vulnerabilities are to kew, which isn't run across the network in
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by ravachol 2y ago
kew does not scrobble. It does not track any of your listening habits or anything else for that matter.
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by ravachol 2y ago
FreeImage is used by Chafa to display the covers in the terminal. The version of kew packaged for Nix is very old: v1.5.2. We're at version 2.8.2. So it's more than a year old, from very early on in the project.
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by ravachol 2y ago
That's an easter egg! Gj! You're the first that has mentioned it.
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by ravachol 2y ago
Oh ok, my bad! And GOOD. I agree it's important. kew is so small it was pretty trivial to do.
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by ravachol 2y ago
You uninstalled it. :(
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by ravachol 2y ago
Yes, while a comically large music library is supported in principle (kew offers to cache your library if it takes a long time to search through), it might not be entirely suited for it. As for your other two suggestions those fall outside
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by ravachol 2y ago
Yes, unfortunately it only works on Linux and FreeBSD. I should add that to the readme. EDIT: Added.
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by ravachol 2y ago
Thank you. To answer your first question, ambiguity isn't resolved unfortunately. When the album has the same name as the artist for instance, I have sometimes resorted to renaming the album name by adding "album" to it. You
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by ravachol 2y ago
Glad you are liking it!
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by ravachol 2y ago
You know I'm not sure. I think there was some problem with FFmpeg in earlier versions, but I'm not 100% sure. There shouldn't be a problem trying to install it in earlier versions though.
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by ravachol 2y ago
Thanks, yes the readme is really important. A lot of projects would benefit from spending a bit more time on it.
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Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux(github.com)
152 points by ravachol 2y ago|65 comments