Catvibes 1.0.19

A musicplayer with a terminal and a Qt frontend

Catvibes

A simple music player offering not only a terminal based frontend but also a Qt based one.

Qt look (with kvantum theme)

Qt look (with Windows theme)

terminal look

Installation

pip install Catvibes

Requirements:

python and the following packages (will be installed as dependencies with pip):

pip install ytmusicapi eyed3 yt-dlp PyQt6

it also requires ffplay

On linux install ffmpeg which is available on debian-based and arch-based distros and probably already installed

On Windows follow this tutorial: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/ffmpeg-windows

Controls

GUI:

launch with the --gui flag

commandline:

f: find a song by typing a searchterm (ideally songname and bandname). Shows 3 results by default (select with the number keys).

esc: terminates searching usw and also exits the program

r: random shuffle, shuffles the queue randomly and adds the whole playlist to the queue when empty

p: play the whole playlist

a: add current song to the playlist

space: play / pause

n: next song

b: previous song

l: create a new playlist