{"id":49383,"date":"2025-07-29T12:59:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=49383"},"modified":"2025-09-08T07:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:03:50","slug":"euphonica-cool-new-gtk4-mpd-client-work-in-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/euphonica-cool-new-gtk4-mpd-client-work-in-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Euphonica – Cool New GTK4 MPD Client Work in Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For users of Music Player Daemon (MPD in short)? Here’s cool new client app in development for Linux desktop!<\/p>\n

It’s euphonica<\/a>, a free open-source app written Rust programming language and uses GTK4 + LibAwaita for modern user interface that’s well integrated with GNOME desktop.<\/p>\n

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Meaning, the app window is adaptive and changes automatically according to its size. It will automatically switch between light and dark following your GNOME desktop color scheme. And, there will be playback control in the ‘date-and-time’ drop-down menu.<\/p>\n

The app can automatically fetch album arts, artist avatars, lyrics and other metadata from Last.fm, MusicBrainz and LRCLIB. And, it groups all the songs in Albums, Artists, and Folder view.<\/p>\n

It features Windows Aero Glass style layout, with current album art (blurred) as background and album art color as accent color.<\/p>\n

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Euphonica comes with MPRIS integration that can run in background, allowing to control your MPD via keyboard shortcuts and shell applets without having to keep the app window open.<\/p>\n

It also has built-in customizable spectrum visualizer, reading from MPD FIFO or system PipeWire. And, it supports one click turning ON\/OFF audio outputs, e.g., pipewire, http streaming, making easy to control which devices to output sounds.<\/p>\n

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Other features of Euphonica include:<\/p>\n