Aquinas Media Player

A simple and straightforward terminal media player.

Built primarily with people who have a local and organized music collection in mind, with the philosophy that the folder heirarchy is enough.

Controls

| Key | Action | | --- | ------ | | Enter | Play | | Space | Play / Pause | | Up / Down | Navigate up / down file list | | Left / Right | Expand / collapse highlighted folder | | f | Seek forward 2 seconds (F for 5 seconds) | | b | Seek backward 2 seconds (B for 5 seconds) | | d | Open directory prompt (change folder) | | s | Open search prompt |

Progress

State of the interface.

Features

• [x] Play music
• [x] File tree rendering
• [x] Change directories
• [x] Seek forward / backward
• [x] Gstreamer backend integration
• [x] Rodio backend integration
• [ ] [Symphonia](https://github.com/pdeljanov/Symphonia) backend integration
• [x] Automatically play next song
• [x] Search
• [x] Sorting / ordering (Basic)
  • [ ] Advanced sorting / ordering
• [x] Global media keys (mpris)
• [ ] Now playing info
• [ ] Help info
• [ ] Song metadata (disabled temporarily)

Installation

Install RustUp:

$ curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Install GStreamer (On Linux, Mac users continue to next section)

• Arch:

  $ sudo pacman -S gstreamer
  

• Debian/Ubuntu:

  $ sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-plugins-{base,good,bad} libgstreamer-plugins-{bad,base}1.0-dev
  $ sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev gstreamer1.0-{gl,gtk3}
  

• Fedora:

  $ dnf install gstreamer1-devel gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools gstreamer1-doc gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-good-extras gstreamer1-plugins-ugly gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-extras
  

Install Aquinas

• Linux:

  $ cargo install aquinas
  

• Mac: GStreamer doesn't work well on Mac, we'll use an alternate backend.

  $ cargo install --no-default-features --features rodio_backend aquinas