Zarumet is a terminal-based MPD client that offers a polished text user interface for browsing and controlling music playback, displaying album art, and configuring behaviour through a TOML configuration file.
The project is aimed at users who want a fast, visually appealing MPD client for the terminal, with support for PipeWire-based bit-perfect playback and flexible keyboard-driven operation.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides a terminal user interface for MPD with album art support.
- Uses a TOML configuration file with options for MPD connection settings, colours, logging, and controls.
- Supports configurable key bindings for playback, navigation, queue handling, and mode switching.
- Includes PipeWire bit-perfect playback support with automatic sample-rate matching.
- Can generate a default configuration file from the command line.
- Offers command-line options to override configuration values such as MPD server address and bit-perfect mode.
Website: github.com/Immelancholy/Zarumet
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Developer: Mela
License: MIT License
Zarumet is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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