ferrum

Music library app for Mac, Linux and Windows

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Features

  • Playlists & folders
  • Filtering
  • Queue
  • Metadata editing
  • Fast. Navigation, sorting & filtering should be instant even for libraries with 100 000 tracks
  • Quick playlist navigation with CmdK or CtrlK

Dev instructions

Get started

  1. Install Node.js
  2. Install Rust
  3. Run npm install

Structure

App (Electron)

  • Source: src/electron.js and src/electron/
  • Build output: build/app/

Web (the frontend)

  • Source code: napi and src/
  • Build output: build/web/

Napi (the native Rust backend)

  • Source code: src-native/
  • Build output: ferrum-addon/addon.node

Commands

  • npm run dev: Start app in dev mode
  • npm run dev-release: Start app in dev mode (optimized)
  • npm run build: Build
  • npm run lint: Lint
  • npm run format: Format

Publish new version

  1. Run npm run check
  2. Update CHANGELOG.md
  3. Run npm version --no-git-tag <version> to bump the version number
  4. Create a git tag in the format v#.#.#
  5. Add release notes to the generated GitHub release and publish it