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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, completely offline

Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql5ZKeaX2MQ

More info: https://codeberg.org/ravachol/kew https://github.com/ravachol/kew

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[-] varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Looks good. I am currently using rmpc/mpd but for my needs, it's overengineered. So I am looking for a simple local player that looks great with Mpris support. kew seems to fit that very well.

What is the advantage of using the NixOS flake? Nixpkg just got 4.0.0 merged.

[-] ravachol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The explanation that was given to me: "the flake references this repo as a source. You don't need to manually bump versions - when users run nix flake update, they pull the latest commit automatically. So it's mostly self-maintaining since it tracks the repo directly."

You'll likely be fine with the official package.

[-] varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Is there a hidden resume playback switch I haven't found? When I restart my computer I would like kew to just resume playback like cmus does.

[-] ravachol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

No, there isn't. Maybe there should be.

You could make an issue for it if you want it!

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