[WiP] SirenSong v0.4 - Music Player for SailfishOS
 

SirenSong v0.4 - Music Player for SailfishOS

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Native Music Player for SailfishOS I am developing this mostly for my own use, but will try and keep at it if there is demand for it.

https://openrepos.net/content/r0kk3r...g-music-player

http://sailfishwayfarer.blogspot.co....ailfishos.html


Features

• People Style List Menu for large library support
• Random Infinitely Queuing Playlist
• Next/Play/Pause Cover Actions
• Headset Buttons Functionality
• MPRIS DBus Interface (confirmed pebbled support)

To Be Implemented

• Search Functionality
• Playlist Management
• Equalizer
• Headphone Jack Events Detection

Known Issues

• Maybe memory issues if left running for a long time

Re: [WiP] SirenSong v0.2 - Music Player for SailfishOS
 

Updated to v0.2

New Features:

• Play Queue Menu
• Headset Button Bindings

Notes:
I haven't actually tested the headset button bindings as I dont have a suitable headset, but I copied the code from the Jolla Media app, so if they work there they should work in SirenSong too.

Re: [WiP] SirenSong v0.2 - Music Player for SailfishOS
 

Just tested SirenSong and it's really snappy. Good work.

I would really like a player that makes use of replay gain tags (in .ogg files in my case) so the volume doesn't jump up and down between tracks. Just wondering if you had considered adding this.

Re: [WiP] SirenSong v0.2 - Music Player for SailfishOS
 

Glad you like it! It's currently serving my music playing purposes quite well.

I've got a few ideas floating in my head about this kind of thing.

I did not know that its part of the .ogg spec to have gain tags, I thought I could make an external service that would parse the music file and decide what volume it should be played at, and store the info in a tracker tag. In the past I have run my collection through a normalisation program like mp3gain.

If the tags already exist, they might be picked up by Tracker already, which makes things easier

Not sure when I will be able to get around to implementing some of this stuff, hoping to get a new version out soon with MPRIS DBus support and a few other fixes.

EDIT: there looks like a number of different library parsers and players that support the tag method so this is definitely something to add to the TODO list, thanks

Re: [WiP] SirenSong v0.3 - Music Player for SailfishOS
 

As a Pebble user, many thanks!

Re: [WiP] SirenSong v0.3 - Music Player for SailfishOS
 

I'd love to have folder sorting, and have the ability of adding a folder and all his subfolders and files to the play queue with 1 or 2 clicks.

Re: [WiP] SirenSong v0.3 - Music Player for SailfishOS
 

Yeah next big thing to tackle will be to increase the flexibility of the song library so you can view and add things in different ways.

Might take a little while but we'll get there

Re: [WiP] SirenSong v0.3 - Music Player for SailfishOS
 

I installed it, get this screen https://openrepos.net/sites/default/...-22-25-291.png when launched, no letters are active. No menus, no controls, no anything...

What's wrong?

Re: [WiP] SirenSong v0.3 - Music Player for SailfishOS
 

Great music player :)
Hopefully you will add playlist/folder feature in the near future.

Re: [WiP] SirenSong v0.3 - Music Player for SailfishOS
 

This can happen if your music files arent tagged properly, particularly the 'track title' field, as that's pretty core to how the menu functions.

Sometimes tracker drops all the metadata and needs reindexing using 'tracker-control -se'

You can also use 'tracker-info [filename]' on an mp3 file to see what information tracker has picked up about your files, looking in particular for nmm:MusicPiece and nmm:Title.

I plan to rework the menu so it can show items based on filename alone, but for now you need to have at least Title in the ID3 tags.