Crusty Player

Crusty Player is an audio player for Linux written in Rust.

Features

• Multi-format Support: Play MP3, WAV, OGG, and FLAC files.
• Playlist Management:
  • Add audio files individually or by the folder.
  • Support for loading existing M3U playlist files and saving a created playlist.
  • Remove tracks or clear the entire playlist.
  • Automatic playback of the next track.
• Playback Controls:
  • Play/Pause, Stop.
  • Next/Previous track.
  • Seek through tracks with a progress slider.
  • Fast-forward and Rewind (10s).
  • Volume control.
• Metadata & Visuals:
  • Displays Artist, Album, Genre, and Year from audio tags.
  • Extracts and displays embedded cover art from audio files.

Screenshots

Playing music using a light desktop theme:

Application information window:

Playing music playlist with shuffle enabled using a dark desktop theme:

Playing a single podcast file using a dark desktop theme:

Installation

Prerequisites

• Rust and Cargo (latest stable version recommended > v1.94.0).
• System dependencies (on Ubuntu/Debian):
  • Audio playback: sudo apt install libasound2-dev
  • GTK4: sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev

Building from Source

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://code.anthony-mills.com/anthonymills/Crusty-Player.git
   cd Crusty-Player
   

2. Build the project:

   cargo build --release
   

3. Run the player:

   cargo run --release
   

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE file for more information.

Acknowledgments

• gtk-rs for the GTK4 GUI framework bindings.
• rodio for audio playback.
• symphonia for audio decoding and metadata parsing.

Author

This project was created by Anthony Mills.