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DuskPlayer Aveek Saha

Use this command to install DuskPlayer:
winget install --id=AveekSaha.DuskPlayer -e

A minimal music player for your desktop

DuskPlayer is a minimal music player designed to provide a distraction-free and lightweight experience for desktop users. Built on Electron, DuskPlayer focuses on simplicity while maintaining essential functionality.

Key Features:

  • Lightweight design with no unnecessary distractions.
  • Supports playlists, file organization, and basic audio controls.
  • Sleek, modern interface that adapts seamlessly across Windows, Linux, and macOS.
  • Compatible with media keys for easy track navigation.
  • Customizable theme options to suit personal preferences.

Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for users seeking a no-frills music player who want to avoid clutter while enjoying their favorite tracks. DuskPlayer is perfect for those prioritizing simplicity, efficiency, and seamless integration into their daily workflow. It can be installed via winget, ensuring quick and easy setup.

README

Dusk Player

A minimalistic music player, designed for simplicity. Built on electron, uses Howler for handling music playback, Svelte for the UI, and music-metadata to retrieve ID3 tags.

This can also serve as a starting point to implement your own front-end/UI for a music Player.

Download here: Releases

How to use

The Player

Download the build for your OS. Start the application and then click on the Folders tab on the top left corner, this will bring up a window where you can select the folder where you want to play your audio files from. Once you select a folder with songs, just click play.

Building from the repo

Clone the repository, make it your working directory, and then on your terminal run npm install. Once all the dependencies have finished downloading, run npm run app-dev to test it, and npm run build to build it for your platform.

Features

Supports: mp3, opus, ogg, wav, aac, m4a and webm.
Reads ID3 tags and displays the artist and album art (if it exists).
Quickly switch tracks from the playlist.
Search for songs from the search bar.
Instantly switch between Dark, Light and Disco modes.
Use keyboard shortcuts to control playback.

Shortcuts

Next track: 🠊 | Previous track: 🠈 | Volume up: 🠉 | Volume down: 🠋 | Play/pause: Space

Screenshots

Upcoming Features

Some new features and under the hood stuff that will be or has already been implemented. They'll be included in the next update.

  • Nothing here yet!

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before raising a PR or creating an issue.

Changelog

You can find the changelog for all releases here

If you liked this, check out my other projects!

https://home.aveek.io/

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