alio

Alio

Alio is a commandline album player! By default it looks for a Music/ directory and adds any directory with audio files to the music library. From there you can play your music from the comfort of the commandline, with familiar emacs style keybindings.

If you don't store your music locally, this isn't the right player for you :)

Alio is written in Go but relies on C bindings for the libvlc v2.x library. Check out the releases tap to get the latest executable dependency free (currently only compiled for Linux). Get the latest stable binary at the releases tab.

Otherwise building it should be as simple as (if you have libvlc installed).

go build alio.go
# to install:
go install github.com/fenimore/alio

And to run it,

alio -dir=/home/USER/Music

Flags

• -h for help
• -dir music collection directory (default "Music")
• -nocolor remove color highlighting

Keybindings (Emacs with some Vim bonuses)

Quit:         Ctrl-c | q | Esc

Move down:    Ctrl-n | j
Move up:      Ctrl-p | k
Scroll:       Up / Down
Page down:    Ctrl-v
Page up:      Alt-v

Focus cursor: Ctrl-l
Pause:        p
Play album:   Enter | Tab
Next:         Right | Ctrl-f | l
Previous:     Left  | Ctrl-b | h

Dependencies:

Alio depends on libvlc 2.X for build, but the releases are dependency free).

• libvlc-go - MIT
• tui-go - MIT

License

Alio commandline music player
Copyright (C) 2017 - 2018  Fenimore Love

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

UI todos

• Scrollable song list
• Theme options
• Skip n rows

The name Alio

Alio was formed from a typo when developing. The original name was Adio, which itself was an intentional typo for Audio. I figured alio makes sense because it is intended to play albums.