fono

fono

Terminal-based music player.

Still early in development!

Usage

Just invoke it on the terminal:

fono

It'll show you a filepicker where you can choose an audio file from the current directory. Currently, mp3, wav, flac and ogg files are supported. On choosing a file it will take you to the player screen where you can pause/play the file, change to another one or quit.

Building

You'll need the Go compiler.

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/pes18fan/fono.git

Go to the fono directory, then get the required libraries and build it to get the fono binary by running

go mod tidy
go build .

Have fun!

Why?

Main reason behind the existence of this is to provide a fresh take on the original fonograf, to address some of its shortcomings and add new features.

The most notable shortcoming of fonograf that this one fixes is the laggy, flickering UI. This was caused because everything in fonograf was done on one thread without any concurrency. However, this time, the audio unit and UI unit operate separately, allowing for a much more responsive interface. This is possible thanks to the ease of concurrency in Go, the language of choice for this player.

I'll also be adding various new features to fono as I continue working on it. While the bubbletea library allows for really nice interfaces in the terminal, I might consider making the program a GUI in the future since a terminal can only do so much.