Euphonica

Euphonica is an MPD client with integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading & more.

• Responsive GTK4 LibAdwaita UI for most MPD features, from basic things like playback controls, queue reordering and ReplayGain to things like output control, crossfade and MixRamp configuration
• Automatically fetch album arts, artist avatars and (synced) song lyrics from external sources (currently supports Last.fm, MusicBrainz and LRCLIB). All external metadata are cached locally & persisted on disk to avoid needless API calls.
• Playlist browser and editor
• Integrated MPRIS client with background running supported (via the XDG Background protocol).
• Built-in, customisable spectrum visualiser, reading from MPD FIFO or system PipeWire.
• Rate albums (requires MPD 0.24+)
• Live bitrate readout + audio quality indicators (lossy, lossless, hi-res, DSD) for individual songs as well as albums & detailed format printout
• Browse your library by album, artist and folders with multiselection support. Browsing by genre and other criteria are planned.
• Sort albums by name, AlbumArtist or release date (provided you have the tags)
• Asynchronous search for large collections
• Configurable multi-artist tag splitting
• Performant album art fetching & display (cached with Stretto)
• Super-fast, multithreaded, statically-cached background blur powered by libblur
• Volume knob with dBFS readout support ('cuz why not?)
• User-friendly configuration UI & GSettings backend
• MPD passwords are securely stored in your user's login keyring
• Commands are bundled into lists for efficient MPD-side processing where possible.

PipeWire permissions

Euphonica requires PipeWire capture permissions for its PipeWire visualizer backend, but currently it is only possible to specify a "blanket" PipeWire permission that also allows screen recording, microphone access, etc. Euphonica does not make use of these extra permissions, and will be updated to use a more restricted "audio portal" when one becomes available.

Screenshot content copyright information & disclaimer

Album arts contained in the screenshots have been substituted with random photos from Pexel. All credits go to the original authors.

Euphonica is solely a music player programme and does not provide any media content or sources. Users must provide their own content or manually configure Euphonica to access third party online services.