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G4Music is a fast fluent lightweight music player written in GTK4, with a beautiful and adaptive user interface, focuses on high performance for large music collection.

Features

  • Supports most music file types, samba and any other remote protocols (depends on GIO and GStreamer).
  • Fast loading and parsing thousands of music files in very few seconds, monitor local changes.
  • Low memory usage for large music collection with album covers (embedded and external), no thumbnail caches to store.
  • Group and sorts by album/artist/title, shuffle list, full-text searching.
  • Gaussian blurred cover as background, follows GNOME light/dark mode.
  • Drag-drop from GNOME Files, showing music in Files.
  • Supports audio peaks visualizer.
  • Supports gapless playback.
  • Supports normalizing volume with ReplayGain.
  • Supports pipewire and other audio sink.
  • Supports MPRIS control.
  • Less than 500KB to install.
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  • Fix "playing" state for music entries.
  • Use Overlay to avoid changing list's width.
  • Sorting albums by Disc Number.
  • Add translation: Romanian, Danish, Slovenian.
  • Update translation: Belarusian, Occitan.
  • Build flatpak with GNOME 45.
  • Fix style of switch bar.
  • Fix loading M3U playlist.
  • Add Hungarian translation.
  • Update Swedish translation.
  • Make seek_bar auto width.
  • UI improvement and fixing.
  • Add translation: Ukrainian, Finnish, Indonesian, Basque.
  • Update translation: Spanish, French, German, Turkish, Russian.
  • Option: Grid view for artists/albums.
  • Bigger image size and column width for grid view.
  • UI improvement and fixing.
  • Group by album-artist, sort albums by year.
  • Save and restore the last library view.
  • Open a new page when play all music of an artist.
  • Stay in the current list when playing the whole album.
  • Show the local playlists.
  • Optimize searching.
  • Update German and Japanese translation.
  • Group artists/albums as library.
  • Optimize layout for landscape view.
  • Show progressbar when loading.
  • Add icons for preference rows.
  • Optimize seeking.
  • Add Japanese translation, thanks to @Gnuey56.
  • App icon refresh from @ddaudix.
  • Add a sort mode by: Artist/Album
  • Drag-drop folders works from Files.
  • Rotating cover sync with play progress, fix issues.
  • Fix gapless related issues.
  • Update German translation.
  • Support .m3u/.pls playlist from command line.
  • Modeless preferences window.
  • UI improvement and fixing.
  • Update Spanish translation.
  • Option: rotate cover when playing.
  • Click music title to search.
  • Revert to single page of preferences.
  • Add 2 shortcut keys.
  • UI improvement and fixing.
  • Update German translation.
  • App startup acceleration.
  • Option: Prefer audio sink.
  • Replay-gain supports album mode.
  • Show same album cover in app and MPRIS.
  • Option: Monitor local file changes.
  • Right click or long press to show popover menu.
  • Scroll playlist smoothly.
  • Many UI improvements.
  • Optimize searching by album/artist/title.
  • Optimize loading files and cache.
  • Update German translation.
  • Option: compact playlist view.
  • Option: custom characters for audio peaks.
  • Optimize playlist text size.
  • Optimize for macOS.
  • Save memory and CPU usage.
  • New style for no-cover images.
  • UI improvement and fixing.
  • MPRIS improvement.
  • UI improvement and fixing.
  • Build flatpak with GNOME 44.
  • MPRIS improvement.
  • UI improvement and fixing.
  • Update Spanish translation.
  • Fix wrong icon name of repeat-song.
  • Fix wrong state of Switch buttons.
  • Optimize loading thumbnails.
  • UI improvement and fixing.
  • Update German translation.
  • Select a music file to "Play at Next".
  • Lazy load thumbnails to faster startup and saving memory.
  • UI improvement and fixing.
  • Add Occitan translation, thanks to Quentin PAGÈS.
  • Build flatpak with GNOME 43.
  • Cache directories for faster loading.
  • Show peaks more smoothly.
  • Update Spanish and German translation, thanks to the translators.
  • v1.8.2: Build with vala 0.54.
  • Start to play when music changed.
  • Optimize audio peaks visualizer.
  • New style of popover menu.
  • Update many translation, thanks to the translators.
  • Option: Background blur mode.
  • Shortcut key for toggle sort.
  • Don't changing current song when searching.
  • Add Estonian translation, thanks to Henri.
  • Add Traditional Chinese translation, thanks to Julian.
  • v1.6.1: Fix wrong sort order of cached tags.
  • Show loading songs progress with percent.
  • Add sort by recently added, thanks to Mek101.
  • Add German translation, thanks to Jürgen Benvenuti.
  • Bug fix and UI improvement.
  • Popover menu for song entry.
  • Show initial status if no sound found.
  • Try parse album and track from file path.
  • Add Italian translation, thanks to Albano Aattistella.
  • App inhibit suspend to keep playing.
  • Performance improvement and memory saving.
  • Parse tags of MKV/MKA.
  • Add French translation, thanks to Aurélien Hamy.
  • Add Dutch translation, thanks to Heimen Stoffels.
  • Faster parsing OGG and MP4 tags.
  • Faster drawing texts using pango.
  • Many UI optimizations.
  • Add Brazilian Portuguese translation, thanks to @PedroHSilva.
  • Option: Gapless playback.
  • Make label clickable instead of hypelinks.
  • Add Turkish translation, thanks to @Sabri Ünal.
  • Fix cover image issues.
  • Fix saving tag cache issues.
  • Support ReplayGain to normalize volume.
  • Option: Keep playing after window closed.
  • Cache tags to make next loading faster.
  • Share album cover with same artist.
  • Fix some UI issues.
  • v1.0.1: Updated Russian translation.
  • Scale album cover to fix large window.
  • Navigate back if start search and folded.
  • Draw peak to avoid resizing the window.
  • Request host file permission in flatpak.
  • Show current song in Files.
  • Sort by track number in an album.
  • Sort text by prefix number.
  • Always follow sym-links when enumerate a folder.
  • Add spanish translation, thanks to @Radi4Ever.
  • Parallel parsing tags to make loading songs even faster.
  • Merge all kinds of tags as possible.
  • Fix crash when parsing some FLAC files, thanks to @GeoffreyCoulaud.
  • Use Adw.Leaflet to adapt to PC and phone screens.
  • Show a mini play bar when only the playlist on the window.
  • Show a spinner when loading songs.
  • Save and restore the window size.
  • Add Swedish translation, thanks to Åke Engelbrektson.
  • Faster parsing FLAC tags.
  • Detect music file type to fix incorrect parsing.
  • Update app icon to follow GNOME HIG, thanks to @daudix-UFO.
  • Add Russian translation, thanks to @daudix-UFO.
  • Change "Force Dark" to "Prefer Dark".
  • Recognize external images as cover art, supports transparency.
  • Showing peak now works with pipewire in flatpak.
  • Don't support tracker_sparql because it is slow.
  • Sort songs by Album/Artist/Title.
  • Option: Force dark theme.
  • Optimized for responsiveness.
  • Add volume button.
  • Repeat single song mode.
  • Supports pipewire for flatpak.
  • Supports parsing GIO file tags for flatpak.
  • Press any key to search, ESC to quit search.
  • Show abbreviation as MPRIS's cover if no cover image.

First release.

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