In Operation
Here’s an image of Wora in action. We’ve seen many Electron-based music players with much more refined UI, but remember that Wora is in a very early stage of development. Hopefully the UI will improve with maturity. It’s a very dark affair too.
On the left hand side there are icons which let you access settings, go home, search, access playlists, access albums, and create playlists. There’s also the usual playback controls, volume control, the option to mark tracks as favourites, and a playback bar. There are also icons which give you track information, and queue / history. There’s also shuffle playback.
What else does Wora offer? There’s support for most common music formats including the essential FLAC as well as lyrics support which highlights the currently line of the song being played which is a nice touch.
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 are a few Linux music players that don’t offer gapless playback.
Sadly Wora falls into the minority camp bereft of gapless playback. That’s a showstopper in our book.
Summary
Wora is billed as a music player for audiophiles. But gapless playback functionality must be added before it could even come close to such a description.
Even though we’re not big fans of the UI, the interface makes it easy to navigate around albums. There’s some functionality which is currently broken which is to be expected given that the software is in a very early stage of development.
Wora seems stable in operation.
The ps_mem utility reports that memory usage is around 380MB. Not bad for an Electron-based app, but still bloated for what it does.
Website: github.com/hiaaryan/wora
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Developer: hiaaryan
License: MIT License
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Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction and Installation
Page 2 – In Operation and Summary