A simple music player based on Python, Qt, GStreamer and TagLib. Functionalities include

• Customizable library tree view
• Customizale playlist view
• Gapeless playback
• Library search
• Global shortcuts
• Remote control
• Web radio
• 10 band equalizer
• Tagging facilities

All kinds of audio files are supported, provided that you installed the related gst-plugin (might already be installed on your computer). The GUI is freely - and mostly - inspired by foobar2000 default interface.

Install the dependencies: pyTagLib, pyQt4, gst-python 1.0. Copy the repository in a folder. Create a named-pipe called pipe in that folder by running mkfifo pipe. Run with Python3 ! (and hope everything is OK)

Press the Alt key to show or hide the main window menu.

Library

• Enter: append songs to playlist and play
• Shift+Enter: append songs to playlist
• Right click: context menu for tagging and ReplayGain

Playlist

• Enter: play
• Del: delete song from playlist

Shortcuts concist of a combination of modifier+key to trigger an action. They can all be customized in the config file. Modifier takes value among: Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Meta (windows key).

Keys are named: A, B, F1, F2, Left, Right, Tab, Del, Ins, PgUp, Plus, Minus, .... Modifiers and keys can be combined using +, e.g. A+B, Ctrl+Shift, ...

Thus for a configuration file as:

...
modifier = Ctrl
play_pause = Shift+Space
stop = A
...

Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Space will pause the playback, Ctrl+A will stop the playback.

Shortcut actions:

• play/pause
• stop
• next
• previous
• quit
• volume up
• volume down
• toggle radio mode
• open equalizer

The hierarchy of the tree library and the playlist columns can be customized in the configuration file, following a basic syntax.

tree_order = %albumartist% (%genre%)| [%date%] - %album% | $Disc %discnumber% | $ %tracknumber%. %title%

where:

• Tags are surrounded by %, they include any field present in your files plus the defaults: %length%, %samplerate%, %channels%, %bitrate%
• Optional parts can be specified using $...$. This will display the formated tags for the tracks having the requested fields and nothing for the others. For example $Disc %discnumber%$ will display Disc 1 for files having a %discnumber% tag, and nothing for the others
• The pipe | separator is used as sub-level for the tree and new column for the playlist

Special tags :

• %file% : path of the file
• %albumartist% : if the tag exist in the file it contains the value otherwise it si mapped to the artist tag. Useful for compilation type CDs.
• %trackartist% : contains the artist tag only for albums having an albumartist tag different from artist tag

The tree order shown above will give the following tree :

		Buena Vista Social Club (Cubano)
			|-- [1996] - Buena Vista Social Club
					|-- 1. Chan Chan
					|-- 2. De Camino A La Vereda
					|-- ...
		George Duke (Jazz)
			|-- [1974] - Feel
			|-- [1975] - The Aura Will Prevail
			|-- [2006] - The Essential
					|-- Disc 1
						|-- 1. Scuse me miss
						|-- 2. Reach for it
						|-- ...
					|-- Disc 2
			|-- [2008] - Dukey Treats
		...

Foo.cd can be controlled by writing keywords to the pipe, allowing global shortcuts (e.g. using xmonad), ssh control, etc. The remote.sh for the list of available keywords and actions.