Groovy Music Player

Aesthetic Music Player built on top of Electron.

Groovy Music Player is a cross-platform desktop music player built on top of Electron. It is written in JavaScript and uses React.

Groovy.Music.Player.mp4

✨ Features

• 📁 Load local .mp3 files from multiple directories.
• ⌛ Load previously added songs instantly when app is re-opened.
• 💫 Animations for clean and easy to use interface.
• 🗄️ Shows meta-data for each song such as title, artist, album, year of release and length of song.
• 🎵 Highlights currently playing song in the list of songs.
• 🔥 Shows Album Art for currently playing song.
• 🎛️ Basic control features such as:
  • Play/Pause.
  • Previous/Next.
  • Shuffle On/Off.
  • Repeat Off/Current/All.
• 🖥️ Full Screen Display for currently playing song.
• 📱 Responsive Design.
• 🚀 Cross platform
  • Windows and Linux ready.
• 🛠️ More features in development.

💽 Installation

Download from GitHub Releases and install it.

Windows

It is recommended to install Groovy Music Player using the installation package (Groovy.Music.Player.Setup.0.1.0.exe) for effortless installation. If you want to build from source code, please read the Build section.

Linux

You can download the AppImage (for all Linux distributions) to install Groovy Music Player.

Linux Installation Instructions

• First install cURL using the following command:

  sudo apt install curl

• Then run the following command to install Groovy Music Player:

  curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Blastoise/355eba8386ff025a5b2706c701c2f5b5/raw/bb26c797f69982ecb03d44e2c34793c4a913c91f/install.sh | bash

If you want to build from source code, please read the Build section.

Linux Uninstalling Instructions

• First install cURL using the following command:

  sudo apt install curl

• Then run the following command to uninstall Groovy Music Player:

  curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Blastoise/597cfa7420ed8bb2043449107d4a34d3/raw/63bfe9989c2d83a7e07e0c650eb20a7cec026dfd/uninstall.sh | bash

AppImage

The latest version of Groovy Music Player AppImage requires you to manually perform desktop integration. Please check the documentation of AppImageLauncher.

Desktop Integration Since electron-builder 21 desktop integration is not a part of produced AppImage file. AppImageLauncher is the recommended way to integrate AppImages.

⌨️ Development

Clone Code

git clone [email protected]:Blastoise/Groovy-Music-Player.git

Install Dependencies

cd Groovy-Music-Player
npm install

Dev Mode

npm run electron-dev

• For Windows user:
  • Create a file named .env in root of the project and add:

    BROWSER=none

  • Replace electron-dev script in package.json with the following:

    "electron-dev": "concurrently \"npm run start\" \"wait-on http://localhost:3000 && electron .\""

Build Release

npm run electron-pack

• For Windows user:
  • Replace electron-pack script in package.json with the following:

    "electron-pack": "electron-builder -w -c.extraMetadata.main=build/main.js",

After building, the application will be found in the project's dist directory.

🛠 Technology Stack

• Electron
• React

🤝 Contribute

If you are interested in participating in joint development, PR and Forks are welcome!

📜 License

MIT Copyright (c) 2021 Ashutosh Kumar