kew (terminal music player) 4.1 is out

kew 4.1, has been released.

kew is an offline terminal music player, with gapless playback, a library explorer, search, privacy and a bunch of other things. Written in C, so it's ultra fast.

With kew you can auto-generate playlists with simple commands:

kew nirvana # plays all your nirvana music shuffled

kew nirv #same thing

kew neverm #plays nevermind album in order

kew song smells #force it to look for a song that contains the string smells

kew dir nevermind # force it to find the folder not a song

kew wu-tang:raekwon:ghost:meth # plays a bunch of wu-tang music

kew all # shuffles and adds all your music to the playlist

kew albums # plays all albums on after the other

kew 4.1 adds:

Cross-fade (both on-demand and automatic).
More cool visualizer modes (press v).
Auto-resume.
Custom layouts.

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

18 people worked on this release and 24 people on the previous one.

u/kew-player — 6 days ago

kew (terminal music player) 4.1 is out

kew 4.1 adds custom layouts, auto-resume, crossfade, an improved visualizer.

kew is also available on Windows now.

The sound system was rewritten in v4.0 and in this version the UI system has been rewritten using the MVU pattern. There are still smaller areas that need improvement, but most of the app is now in a much better shape.

Windows installer here:
https://github.com/ravachol/kew/releases/latest

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

EDIT: Added the windows installer.

u/kew-player — 6 days ago
▲ 43 r/tui+1 crossposts

kew 4.1 has been released

kew 4.1 adds custom layouts, auto-resume, crossfade, an improved visualizer.

kew is also available on Windows now.

The sound system was rewritten in v4.0 and in this version the UI system has been rewritten using the MVU pattern. There are still smaller areas that need improvement, but most of the app is now in a much better shape.

Windows installer here:
https://github.com/ravachol/kew/releases/tag/v4.1.4

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

EDIT: Added installer

u/kew-player — 6 days ago
▲ 174 r/termux+2 crossposts

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

The project recently passed 2,600 stars on GitHub.

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

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

The goal is to make local music ownership viable again and let people listen without being profiled.

u/kew-player — 2 months ago