Ymuse is an easy, functional, and snappy GTK front-end (client) for Music Player Daemon written in Go. It supports both light and dark desktop theme.
It supports library browsing and search, playlists, streams etc.
Watch Ymuse feature tour video:
- If your distribution supports snap packages:
sudo snap install ymuse
- Ubuntu (as of 23.04) or Debian Testing:
sudo apt install ymuse
- A flatpak is available in the Flathub repository.
- Otherwise, you can use a binary package from the Releases section.
- Go 1.22+
- GTK 3.24+
- Install Go
- Make sure you have the following build dependencies installed:
build-essential
libc6
libgtk-3-dev
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev
libglib2.0-dev
gettext
- Clone the source and compile:
git clone https://github.com/yktoo/ymuse.git
cd ymuse
go generate
go build
- Copy over the icons and localisations:
sudo cp -r resources/icons/* /usr/share/icons/
sudo cp -r resources/i18n/generated/* /usr/share/locale/
sudo update-icon-caches /usr/share/icons/hicolor/*
This will create the application executable ymuse
in the project root directory, which you can run straight away.
Requires goreleaser
installed.
goreleaser release --clean --skip=publish [--snapshot]
- Install
flatpak
andflatpack-builder
flatpak remote-add flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak-builder dist /path/to/com.yktoo.ymuse.yml --force-clean --install-deps-from=flathub --repo=/path/to/repository
- Optional: make a
.flatpak
bundle:flatpak build-bundle /path/to/repository ymuse.flatpak com.yktoo.ymuse
Install and run snapcraft
(it will also ask to install Multipass, which you'll have to confirm):
snap install snapcraft
snapcraft clean # Optional, when rebuilding the snap
snapcraft
See COPYING.
- Icon artwork: Jeppe Zapp
- gotk3
- gompd by Fazlul Shahriar
- go-logging by Örjan Fors
- goreleaser by Carlos Alexandro Becker et al.
- Automated UI testing.
- Drag’n’drop of multiple tracks in the play queue.
- More settings.
- Multiple MPD connections support.