Resonance – Rust-based music player

In Operation

Starting up the program, you’re prompted to add your music library.

When you’ve selected your music folder, you’ll get a warning that Resonance is early alpha stage software, there will be bugs. That’s fine.

The software lets you specify multiple music folders. And Resonance imports tags from music files with good rapidity. There’s support for album covers too.

Here’s an image of Resonance with a tiny collection of music albums loaded accessed from Albums. We can also view the queue, the tracks of an album, artists, and genres.

There are a few glitches evident on some of the views, but nothing that ruins the experience. In fact, the way the music albums are presented is impressive to say the least.

The user interface reflects the currently playing track’s cover art colours which might be your cup of tea.

What else does Resonance offer? There’s support for creating playlists, Discord Rich Presence integration, Last.fm scrobbling, and the ability to import tags.

We always consider a music player must have gapless playback. Gapless playback is the uninterrupted playback of consecutive audio tracks, such that relative time distances in the original audio source are preserved over track boundaries on playback. It’s essential if you listen to classical, electronic music, concept albums, and progressive rock. There’s a few Linux music players that don’t offer gapless playback.

Sadly Resonance falls into the minority camp bereft of gapless playback. That’s a showstopper in our book. It’s understandable though given that Resonance is in a very early stage of development. Generally speaking, gapless playback is functionality that’s often only added as a project matures unless the actual music playback is handled by an external program such as mpv that already handles gapless playback.

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