Festival is an Open Source Music Player with a Unique UI
The ‘unique’ user-interface won’t suit everyone’s tastes. But in terms of functionality Festival does everything a music player needs to (with a few minor exceptions).
Plus, Festival is blazingly fast — even when processing substantial local music collections. Files, folders, tags, artwork all blink into view instantaneously. Memory usage during playback (on my system) was on par with Rhythmbox, so it’s not quite the lightweight dream – but it’s more nimble than Spotify et al.
I’ve written about a lot of music players over the years – you’ve no doubt read about a lot. Suffice to say there’s no shortage. But while almost all such apps do the same core thing (i.e. play music), differentiation is made through features, integrations, presentation, management etc.
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Festival is a Music Player with a Special Interface
Festival is a graphical music player for local album collections. It's written in Rust and published under an open source license.