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Timbre 🐱
a music manager to finally solve this huge mess of music management.
⚠️ Timbre is in extreme alpha. Right now it can create a library, import and organize your music, scan it, repair itself, and adopt (rip) CDs to tagged, lossless FLAC with cover art. More is planned. It works, but expect rough edges and breaking changes, so use it on music you have backed up elsewhere.
📑 Contents
📋 Info
Currently, ripping CDs, adding metadata, organizing them, playing each, all different apps, each with its own problems, own load times, and own opinions. Everyone solves this by making workflows, but it's overly inefficient for something that should be solved already. Timbre is built to include all of those features in one app. Rip your CDs (or bring your own media files!), auto-organize them, and play them back in your favorite music player, all with one person's opinion instead of tons, seamlessly working, in a fast Rust app.
📦 Installation
You will need the following commands on your system for adopting a CD:
cdparanoiaflac
Here is some ways to get them depending on your system:
Arch-based systems
sudo pacman -S cdparanoia flac
Debian-based systems
sudo apt install cdparanoia flac
Fedora-based systems
sudo dnf install cdparanoia flac
Most are the same, you should be able to figure it out.
Afterwards, download the binary from the latest release and put it somewhere on path, usually ~/.local/bin/.
Then run timbre init and get started.
Timbre is also in the AUR as the package timbre-bin.
⌨️ Usage
timbre init- give Timbre a home (~/Music/Timbre/)timbre import- creates anImport/folder, drop music in, run again to organize ittimbre scan- see what's in your librarytimbre repair- fix a broken library
🛠️ Building
cargo build --release
The output will be in target/release/timbre
Linux only.
🐈⬛ The Cat
Timbre is a bit cat themed, and powered by my cat, CatGPT (cat_01.jpg). The cat is not optional. Timbre needs the cat.
📄 License
Public domain (Unlicense).
made with 🐈⬛ by Owen