A tool for recording internet radio streams (Shoutcast/Icecast/HTTP streams) to disk with automatic track-splitting, ID3/Vorbis metadata tagging, and cover-art embedding — driven by Liquidsoap and controlled through a desktop GUI (with an optional web interface).
github.com/smoralis/liquidsoap-record
hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,129894.0
Aurral is self-hosted music discovery with its own music library. Best-in-class recommendations, rotating flows, playlist downloads, and a library that Aurral manages, with Lidarr as an optional add-on.
aurral.org
github.com/lklynet/aurral
foobar2000 v2 x64 component for exposing a configured Google Drive folder as a playlist/feed item, similar to source components such as YouTube Source.
Playback prioritizes stability: the component downloads a selected Drive file to a local cache on first playback, then delegates decoding to foobar2000’s normal input components using the cached local file.
Features:
- Google OAuth desktop flow with system browser, localhost redirect, and PKCE.
- OAuth token saved under the foobar2000 profile and protected with Windows DPAPI when available.
- Preferences page for OAuth client JSON, Drive folder ID/URL, cache directory, cache size limit, and saved token removal.
- Recursive file listing from Google Drive
files.list, limited to downloadable audio-looking blob files.- Playlist insertion using
gdrive://<fileId>/<encoded filename>.- Playlist/feed track support using
gdrive://folder/<folderId>/<encoded name>.- File menu integration under
File > Google Drive Stream, including folder URL/ID loading into a new playlist.- Front cover artwork support from image files in the same Drive folder, preferring names such as
cover,folder,front,album, orartwork.- Artwork inheritance for nested folders,
Album/cover.jpgcan apply to tracks underAlbum/Disc 1.- Context menu expansion of a selected folder feed into its current Drive audio files.
- Context menu refresh that replaces the already-expanded
gdrive://file tracks immediately after the folder feed.- First-play cache download through Drive
files.get?alt=media.
github.com/shirafukayayoi/foo_gdrive_stream
Local music player and downloader.
Features:
- Play local audio in different ways
- Drag and drop multiple files and folders from your file manager onto the app to add them to the queue
- Build and search your own custom audio library in app, by registering locations from your computer
- Manually select a folder to open
- Reorder and shuffle queue
- Loop current or whole queue
- Create your own playlists
- Import and export your playlists to .M3U format
- Automatically download missing playlist tracks
- Search and download songs and albums directly from the internet, using yt-dlp
- Allow downloading songs and playlists using direct url
- Lyrics auto fetching from song file name + caching
- Change lyrics source if they are incorrect or sync is broken
- Power saving / appearance toggle, if your machine struggles with pretty blurs and overly long queues :p
- Automatically fetches album cover art using filename and parent directory name + caching
- Enable / disable auto cover art fetching
- Link your Youtube account (by using your browser’s cookies) to download content that fails otherwise
- Looks cute and pretty :3
github.com/esteakacrownie/gayer
Luminous is a fast, local-first player for your own audio library. Built for anyone who wants the convenience of a modern streaming app without giving up ownership of their music. Turn a folder of files into a library you’ll enjoy browsing and listening to.
esoltys.dev/luminous
github.com/esoltys/luminous
A high-performance, feature-rich artwork display component for foobar2000 v2 (x64 and 32-bit). It provides intelligent, multi-tiered artwork discovery and acoustic audio recognition for local tracks, internet radio streams, and YouTube playback. It seamlessly supports both Default User Interface (DUI) and Columns UI (CUI).
Artwork Discovery & Retrieval:
- Local Artwork Search: Automatically searches for artwork files and embedded tags configured in foobar2000 (Preferences > Display > Album Art).
- Online Commercial Search APIs: Automatically queries Deezer, iTunes, Last.fm, MusicBrainz (Cover Art Archive), and Discogs when local artwork is missing.
- Customizable API Priority: Reorder and enable/disable individual API services via an intuitive 5-position priority chain.
- In-Stream Broadcast Artwork Extraction: Parses dynamic in-stream cover links from
$info(cover_url),COVER_URL,ARTWORK_URL,icy-cover-url,song.art, and XML/JSON broadcast streams (e.g. Radio Paradise, Cidade FM).- YouTube Video Thumbnail Retrieval: Automatically extracts 11-character video IDs from YouTube links and plugin protocols (
youtube.com,youtu.be,3dyd://,fy://,fy+https://), querying commercial music APIs first and falling back to high-resolution video thumbnails (maxresdefault.jpg/hqdefault.jpg).- Interactive Provider Rejection: Reject mismatched artwork on-the-fly via shortcut or menu command (View > Artwork Display > Reject Artwork & Search Next Provider). Evicts the bad cache file, blacklists the provider for the active track, and queries the next provider in the fallback chain.
- Universal Format Support: High-performance decoding for
.png,.jpg/.jpeg,.webp(via Windows Imaging Component),.gif, and.bmp.Internet Radio & Streaming Intelligence:
- ACRCloud Acoustic Audio Recognition: Local 16 kHz PCM stream sampling and RIFF WAV payload generation to identify untagged radio streams and music tracks via acoustic fingerprinting.
- Multi-Account ACRCloud Failover: Configure Primary and Secondary credentials with automatic, seamless failover when the Primary account exhausts its monthly quota (Error 3001).
- Windows DPAPI Credential Security: ACRCloud Access Keys and Secrets are securely encrypted on disk using the Windows Data Protection API (
CryptProtectData), eliminating plaintext exposure in.cfgfiles.- CoverSync Stream Latency Compensation: Asynchronous cue delay compensation (
?coversync=±N) synchronizes artwork and metadata transitions on radio streams where the audio buffer lags behind metadata changes.- External Now-Playing Stream APIs: Automated polling and auto-probing for AzuraCast (
/api/nowplaying) and RadioReg (api.radioreg.net) JSON endpoints, supporting live listener counts, cue timings, and HLS streams.- m-TAGS & URL Modifiers: Full support for
.tagsfiles (reading target stream URLs from the@metadata tag) and URL query flags (?forceacr,?coversync,?inverted,?rejectstationcovers,?ext_api_autoprobe,?bypass).Dynamic Title Formatting Variables:
- Canonical API Metadata Publication: Commercial search APIs (Deezer, iTunes, Last.fm, Discogs) and ACRCloud extract authoritative metadata directly into foobar2000 title formatting variables (
%foo_artwork_artist%,%foo_artwork_title%,%foo_artwork_album%), replacing messy stream tags.- Dynamic Track Timing: Real-time duration (
%foo_artwork_length%), elapsed time (%foo_artwork_playback_time%), and countdown remaining (%foo_artwork_playback_remaining%) calculated for both local audio files and live radio streams.- Live Stream Diagnostics: Real-time status string (
%foo_artwork_status%) reporting query stages, stream connection progress, CoverSync countdowns, and image dimensions with payload size (e.g.Art 1200x1200 342 KB from Deezer).- Live Listener Counts: Real-time listener statistics (
%foo_artwork_listeners%) from AzuraCast and RadioReg broadcasts.Advanced Metadata Sanitization:
- 4-Stage Stream Metadata Sanitizer: Cleans noisy stream metadata by stripping broadcast slogans, stream headers, URLs, timestamps, track numbers, and media noise while protecting band names containing
&,and, or slashes (Mumford & Sons,Earth, Wind & Fire,AC/DC).- Accented UTF-8 Title Casing: Normalizes all-caps and all-lowercase stream metadata into Title Case with full support for accented characters across Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Italian without CP1252 character corruption.
- Non-Latin Script Preservation: Conservative sanitization rules protect Cyrillic, Greek, and other non-Latin alphabets from accidental bracket stripping or character truncation.
- Dedicated Noise Words Blacklist: User-configurable blacklist page backed by an auto-reloaded text file (
foo_artwork_data\blacklist.txt).Caching & Storage Architecture:
- Persistent Disk Metadata Caching (
.metaSidecars): Remote API metadata is cached on disk alongside image binaries (<hash>.metaalongside<hash>.cache), ensuring instant warm track replays in under 1ms with zero network overhead.- Automatic 1 GB Disk Cache Limit: Intelligent background LRU (Least Recently Used) cache eviction automatically keeps the cache under 1 GB, pruning old entries down to 900 MB when needed.
- Single-File Cache Mode (
current.cache): Overwrites a single cache file (current.cache) for external skin scripts and panels (e.g. JScript Panel 3 Thumbs) that monitor a folder for the currently playing track’s artwork.- Cache Freshness Verification: Automatically verifies whether local artwork or file tags were updated after the cache was generated, refreshing stale cache entries automatically.
User Interface & Interactivity:
- Dark Mode Support: Full native theme integration with foobar2000 dark mode across all UI elements and dialogs.
- Dual UI Support: Native panel integration for both Default UI (DUI) and Columns UI (CUI).
- Popup Artwork Viewer: Double-click any artwork panel to launch an interactive viewer with window memory, a toggle between “Fit to window” and “Show original size”, mouse-drag panning for oversized images, and a “Save Image…” button.
- foo_artgrab Integration: Automatic hover overlay displaying a download arrow icon in the bottom-left corner when
foo_artgrab.dllis installed, launching the art grabber gallery in one click.- On-Screen Display (OSD) & Infobar: Optional Infobar in DUI displaying artist, album, and track title; configurable OSD overlay showing the artwork provider source.
github.com/jame25/foo_artwork
hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,128111.0
Music Assistant is a free, opensource media library manager that connects to your streaming services and a wide range of connected speakers. The server is the beating heart, the core of Music Assistant and must run on an always-on device like a Raspberry Pi, a NAS or an Intel NUC or alike.
www.music-assistant.io
github.com/music-assistant
github.com/music-assistant/server
mStream is a self-hosted music server. Self-hosting means you run the server software on a computer you own. mStream is lightweight and can be run on old hardware and boards like the Raspberry Pi.
Why host your own?
- Own your music. No ads, and nothing gets removed from your library.
- Quality. Stream FLAC and lossless files uncompressed.
- Privacy. Streaming services log your listening habits. Your server never snitches on you.
- Good for artists. Buy music directly and the money goes to them.
mstream.io
github.com/IrosTheBeggar/mStream
Carat is a lightweight, automated GUI utility designed to accept Dolby Atmos music releases in practically any format, locate the primary title in the release, retrieve metadata and cover art from the internet, and incorporate the release directly into your digital music library in a single click.
From the moment a new Blu-ray arrives in your mailbox, Carat handles the entire pipeline—extraction, processing, metadata acquisition, and cover art—with zero friction. If your source files are already on your SSD, Carat will process an entire release in a minute or two (depending on the speed of your computer). If you are starting from a physical disc, the time is limited by the read speed of your optical drive (expect five to ten minutes).
github.com/jbloch/carat
quadraphonicquad.com/threads/announcing-carat-beta-one-click-atmos-ripping-for-gapless-playback
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Atmos
SonicTree is a Linux music player for local music playback and filesystem-based navigation. It allows you to browse and play music directly from your existing folder structure without requiring a separate music library database.
Features:
- Designed around local folder-based music playback for clean and distraction-free listening experience
- Playback architecture powered by GStreamer for stable playback pipeline and decoder handling
- Audio metadata support powered by TagLib
- Low CPU usage during playback. Small and stable memory footprint with minimal background overhead
- Gapless Playback for improved listening experience for continuous albums, live recordings, and gapless music.
- Smooth and responsive playback experience with stable long-session playback behavior
- Repeat Off, Repeat Track, and Repeat Playlist modes
- Keyboard shortcuts for playback, seeking, and volume control
- Persistent application settings
sourceforge.net/projects/sonictree
References:
itsfoss.com/sonictree-music-player/#get-sonictree
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapless_playback
gstreamer.freedesktop.org
taglib.org
A simple album scraper for allmusic.com, written in node.js.
github.com/fpbrault/allmusic-scraper
Advanced YouTube Music client for Android.
metrolist.meowery.eu
github.com/MetrolistGroup/Metrolist
github.com/MetrolistGroup/metrobot
github.com/MetrolistGroup/metroserver
