Category Archives: Album Artwork

Album artwork support or utility

Lattice ~ CLI Toolkit For Music Collectors

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A high-performance CLI toolkit for music collectors who manage their own libraries. Lattice provides a suite of tools for library visualization, integrity verification, cover art extraction, and metadata auditing — all from a single, zero-dependency script.

Why this exists

Modern music players often hide your library behind proprietary databases. Lattice is built for collectors who treat the filesystem as the source of truth. It reads tags directly via mutagen, ensuring your library is portable and player-agnostic.

Features:

ModeFlagDescription
Library Tree--libraryGenerate a formatted ASCII/Unicode tree of your entire collection.
AI Library--ai-libraryToken-efficient export designed for LLM recommendation prompts.
Genre Wings--all-wingsGenerate separate library catalogs segmented by genre.
Integrity Checks--testFLACParallel verification of FLAC/MP3/Opus/WAV integrity via FFmpeg.
Art Extraction--extractArtExtract embedded covers with format-priority ranking (FLAC > Opus).
Tag Audit--auditTagsIdentify and report files with missing or inconsistent metadata.

github.com/VirInvictus/Lattice

Bitfake2 ~ Audio Tool Handler & Manipulator

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Bitfake was originally created to detect fake .FLAC files through spectral analysis. It has since grown into a multipurpose CLI tool for handling music more easily and efficiently.

One common problem was that getting a track’s metadata required long ffprobe commands with messy output. Converting music with ffmpeg was also repetitive. The command itself is easy to remember, but writing scripts to convert entire directories felt inefficient and slow. This project now performs metadata and conversion tasks directly through linked libraries (TagLib/libsndfile/libav*).

Features:

  • Get metadata
  • Get ReplayGain info (useful for music players)
  • Spectral analysis on 44.1 kHz .FLAC files (higher sample rates may be misrepresented, so be careful)
  • Lossy diagnosis (banding score)
  • File Conversion + VBR Support (Works for outputs like .wav, .flac, .ogg, .mp3, .aac, .opus)
  • Tagging metadata (Works for single files, but not directories yet)
  • Calculating ReplayGain and applying it to files (Works for track replay gain iterating through directories, album replay gain is a bit funky?)
  • Directory Conversion (works for all previously mentioned formats!)
  • CoverArt+ (Brings along cover art among all conversions!)
  • Organizing Files by album! (Give a dir of random music, and bitfake will organize it – ty to uncognic)
  • Directory Tagging (YAY!)
  • Album folder renaming from tags (Artist – Album (Year))
  • Spectrogram generation (in .png)
  • Version info (WOW! BEST YET!)
  • MusicBrainz Syncing data.

github.com/Ray17x/bitfake2
gpo.zugaina.org/app-misc/bitfake2
repology.org/maintainer/ray%40atl.tools/feed-for-repo/gentoo_ovl_guru

Audion ~ Community Driven Music Player

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Audion is a privacy-focused music player that brings the Spotify experience to your local music library. No internet required, no tracking, just your music, beautifully organized.

Key highlights:

  • Synced lyrics with karaoke-style word highlighting
  • Extensible plugin system
  • Gorgeous, customizable interface
  • Fully offline

www.audionplayer.com
github.com/dupitydumb/Audion

Amberol ~ Plays music and nothing else

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Amberol is a music player with no delusions of grandeur. If you just want to play music available on your local system then Amberol is the music player you are looking for.

Current features:

  • adaptive UI
  • UI recoloring using the album art
  • drag and drop support to queue songs
  • shuffle and repeat
  • MPRIS integration

gitlab.gnome.org/World/amberol
apps.gnome.org/en/Amberol
flathub.org/en/apps/io.bassi.Amberol

Album Art Minimal ~ foobar2000 HTTP Control Template

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A clean, minimalist web interface for foobar2000 that displays full-screen album art with elegant hover controls.

github.com/jame25/albumart_minimal

HTML5-FLAC ~ HTML5 FLAC Player

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A lightweight HTML5 web music player with FLAC support that runs in a Docker container. This project provides a clean, minimalist interface for playing FLAC audio files with metadata extraction.

github.com/jame25/HTML5-FLAC

GNOME Music ~ Desktop Audio Player

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Play and organize your music collection

An easy and pleasant way to play your music.

Find tracks in your local collection, use automatically generated playlists or curate a fresh one.

gnome music player interface

apps.gnome.org/Music

Tagr ~ Music Metadata Editor

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Self-hosted web app for browsing, playing, and editing music file metadata. Features a three-panel UI to navigate your library, listen to tracks, and write tag changes directly back to audio files. Built with Next.js, React, Prisma + SQLite, and node-taglib-sharp.

Most metadata editors are either desktop-only, command-line tools, or bloated apps with steep learning curves. If your music lives on a NAS, a server, or a headless machine, editing tags means SSH, mounting drives, or syncing files back and forth.

Tagr takes a different approach:

  • Run it anywhere — Docker, bare metal, your NAS. If it runs Node.js, it runs Tagr.
  • Edit from any browser — No installs, no plugins. Just open a tab.
  • Do one thing well — Browse your library, edit tags, save. That’s it.

Features:

Metadata Editing
  • Edit 40+ metadata fields inline — title, artist, album, year, genre, composer, BPM, lyrics, and more
  • Album art management — view, replace, and upload cover images directly
  • Star ratings (1–5) with a visual widget
  • Support for track/disc numbering, sort fields, catalog numbers, barcodes, and extended tags
  • Read-only display of audio properties (codec, bitrate, sample rate, channels, bits per sample)
Tagr Interface
Music Player
  • Built-in audio player with interactive waveform visualization (WaveSurfer.js)
  • Play/pause, previous/next track navigation
  • Click-to-seek on the waveform
  • Auto-advance to next song
  • Collapsible sidebar player with album art, title, and artist display
Library Browsing
  • Three-panel layout — folder tree, song list, and detail editor side by side
  • Folder tree with hierarchical navigation and real-time search
  • Sorting on any column — title, artist, album, year, duration, bitrate, date added, and dozens more
  • Advanced filtering — text, numeric ranges, date ranges, and boolean filters across all fields
  • Customizable columns — show/hide any of 40+ columns to match your workflow
  • Virtual scrolling and infinite pagination for large libraries

github.com/suitux/Tagr

foo_monthly_stats ~ Foobar Visualizes Music Stats

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A foobar2000 component that tracks and visualizes your music listening statistics on a monthly and yearly basis.

Features:

  • 📊 Monthly & Yearly Statistics: View your listening history organized by month or year
  • 🎵 Track Play Counts: Records the number of times each track is played with accurate playback time tracking
  • 📈 Month-over-Month Comparison: See how your listening habits change with delta indicators
  • 🎨 Beautiful HTML Reports: Export visually appealing reports with album artwork
  • 🏆 Top Artists Ranking: Highlights your most-played artists with circular album art
  • ⏱️ Total Listening Time: Calculates and displays your total listening time
  • 🗄️ SQLite Database: Efficient local storage of listening history
  • 🖼️ Album Art Integration: Displays album artwork in reports using embedded thumbnails
foo_monthly_stats panel

github.com/shirafukayayoi/foo_monthly_stats

museeks ~ Simple, Clean & Cross-platform Music Player

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Museeks aims to be a simple and easy-to-use music player with a clean UI. You will not find tons of features, as its goal is not to compete with more complete and more famous music players.

Features:

  • 💻 Cross-platform music player (Linux, macOS, and Windows)
  • 🎧 Supported formats: mp3, mp4, m4a/aac, flac, wav, ogg, 3gpp
  • 🔄 Library auto-refresh
  • 🌟 Playlists
  • 🎼 Queue management
  • ➰ Shuffle, loop
  • 🌄 Cover art
  • 🤓 Dark theme
  • 🚤 Playback speed control
  • 😴 Sleep mode blocker
  • 📥 .m3u import/export

museeks.io
github.com/martpie/museeks
sourceforge.net/projects/museeks.mirror

Lidify ~ Music Hosting & Discovery Tool

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Lidify is built for music lovers who want the convenience of streaming services without sacrificing ownership of their library. Point it at your music collection, and Lidify handles the rest: artist discovery, personalized playlists, podcast subscriptions, and seamless integration with tools you already use like Lidarr and Audiobookshelf.

  • Stream your library – FLAC, MP3, AAC, OGG, and other common formats work out of the box
  • Automatic cataloging – Lidify scans your library and enriches it with metadata from MusicBrainz and Last.fm
  • Audio transcoding – Stream at original quality or transcode on-the-fly (320kbps, 192kbps, or 128kbps)
  • Ultra-wide support – Library grid scales up to 8 columns on large displays
Lidify Interface

github.com/Chevron7Locked/lidify
github.com/TheWicklowWolf/Lidify

AudioPlayer ~ CD Image Player

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This is an audio player for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

It is designed to play audio CDs dumped to raw bin/cue files.

The bin/cue files can be loaded from a folder on disk, or from a zip archive.

This player provides a convenient way of listening to dumps in that format without any additional step(s):

  • No need to mount the cue file as a virtual drive.
  • No need to extract the cue/bin files from zip files.
  • No need to convert the data to wav/flac/ogg/mp3.

This is currently NOT supported:

  • Playing from archives in 7z and rar formats.
  • Playing music from other formats such as wav, mp3, flac, ogg, etc. Just use a regular music player for that.

Album and track metadata is loaded from the CDTEXT information when present in cue file.

Additional metadata is optionally retrieved from CueToolsDB, including album art.

Lyrics are optionally retrieved from LRCLIB. Using a local LRCLIB sqlite3 database is also supported.

AudioPlayer Interface

github.com/huguesv/AudioPlayer