MECOMP (Metadata Enhanced Collection Oriented Music Player) is a music player designed for large, locally stored music collections. It extends conventional artist and album organisation with audio analysis, automatic grouping, smart playlists and music recommendations.
The software uses a client-server architecture consisting of a background daemon and command-line, terminal and MPRIS clients. Its terminal interface provides access to the music library, playlists, playback queue, search tools and automatically generated collections.
MECOMP analyses the characteristics of tracks and uses K-means clustering to group similar music into broad collections. It can also generate a radio queue from a song, artist or album and suggest tracks that complement an existing playlist.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Plays and manages locally stored music collections.
- Provides a full-screen terminal user interface.
- Uses a background daemon with CLI, TUI and MPRIS clients.
- Scans configured directories and monitors the library for changes.
- Searches songs, albums, artists and library metadata.
- Creates conventional and dynamically updated smart playlists.
- Supports combined and scoped criteria for smart playlists.
- Analyses audio characteristics for clustering and recommendations.
- Automatically groups similar music using K-means clustering.
- Converts automatically generated collections into permanent playlists.
- Generates radio queues from a song, artist or album.
- Suggests songs that complement an existing playlist.
- Handles compilation albums, collaborations and multiple genres.
- Preserves playlists and library data when rescanning music.
- Offers shell completion for its command-line programs.
Website: github.com/AnthonyMichaelTDM/mecomp
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Developer: Anthony Rubick
License: MIT License
MECOMP is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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