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Euphonica

MPD client with delusions of grandeur Source

Description

Euphonica is an MPD client with integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading & more.

  • Responsive GTK4 LibAdwaita UI for most MPD features, from basic things like playback controls, queue reordering and ReplayGain to things like output control, crossfade and MixRamp configuration
  • Automatically fetch album arts, artist avatars and (synced) song lyrics from external sources (currently supports Last.fm, MusicBrainz and LRCLIB). All external metadata are cached locally & persisted on disk to avoid needless API calls.
  • Playlist browser and editor
  • Integrated MPRIS client with background running supported (via the XDG Background protocol).
  • Built-in, customisable spectrum visualiser, reading from MPD FIFO or system PipeWire.
  • Rate albums (requires MPD 0.24+)
  • Live bitrate readout + audio quality indicators (lossy, lossless, hi-res, DSD) for individual songs as well as albums & detailed format printout
  • Browse your library by album, artist and folders with multiselection support. Browsing by genre and other criteria are planned.
  • Sort albums by name, AlbumArtist or release date (provided you have the tags)
  • Asynchronous search for large collections
  • Configurable multi-artist tag splitting
  • Performant album art fetching & display (cached with Stretto)
  • Super-fast, multithreaded, statically-cached background blur powered by libblur
  • Volume knob with dBFS readout support ('cuz why not?)
  • User-friendly configuration UI & GSettings backend
  • MPD passwords are securely stored in your user's login keyring
  • Commands are bundled into lists for efficient MPD-side processing where possible.

Euphonica requires PipeWire capture permissions for its PipeWire visualizer backend, but currently it is only possible to specify a "blanket" PipeWire permission that also allows screen recording, microphone access, etc. Euphonica does not make use of these extra permissions, and will be updated to use a more restricted "audio portal" when one becomes available.

Album arts contained in the screenshots have been substituted with random photos from Pexel. All credits go to the original authors.

Euphonica is solely a music player programme and does not provide any media content or sources. Users must provide their own content or manually configure Euphonica to access third party online services.

Source

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Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: released

This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.

The project repository was created on 2024-06-16.

The last known commit happened on 2025-10-12.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-10-12

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Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.htkhiem.Euphonica.flatpakref

Build and install your own flatpak: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/htkhiem/euphonica/refs/heads/main/io.github.htkhiem.Euphonica-dev.json

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By Service: Music Player Daemon (mpd)

By Category: music player

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Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita

Programming languages: Rust

Build system: cargo

AppStream Metadata URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/htkhiem/euphonica/refs/heads/main/data/io.github.htkhiem.Euphonica.metainfo.xml.in