Euphonica

Dynamic playlists, integrated spectrum visualiser, background blur, synced lyrics & more.

Features

• Both a self-contained music player and an MPD-compatible client. The power of MPD, without the manual set-up. Plays nearly every format, DSD included!
• Supports most MPD features, from queue reordering and ReplayGain to output control, crossfade and MixRamp.
• Genre & tag filtering, plus in-app tag editing.
• Client-side dynamic playlists: both query and sticker filter rules, multiple ordering clauses, fetch-first limits, scheduled refreshes, all via an intuitive editor UI.
• Fetch album arts, artist avatars and (synced) song lyrics from external sources (currently supporting Last.fm, MusicBrainz and LRCLIB).
• Configurable multi-artist and multi-genre tag splitting.
• Stay in control while in the background via MPRIS & XDG Background Portal.
• Customisable spectrum visualiser (FIFO or system PipeWire).
• Live bitrate readout + audio quality indicators (lossy, lossless, hi-res, DSD).
• Largely **zero-cost** static background blur.
• Volume knob with dBFS readout support ('cuz why not?)
• User-friendly configuration UI & GSettings backend
• MPD passwords are securely stored in your user's login keyring.
• Works with large playlists (tested with 30K songs).
• Commands are bundled into lists for efficient MPD-side processing where possible.
• myMPD-compatible stickers handling.

This Flatpak installation bundles MPD 0.24 internally to serve as the playback engine for Standalone Mode.

PipeWire permissions

Euphonica requires PipeWire capture permissions for its PipeWire visualizer backend, but currently it is only possible to specify a "blanket" PipeWire permission that also allows screen recording, microphone access, etc. Euphonica does not make use of these extra permissions, and will be updated to use a more restricted "audio portal" when one becomes available.

Screenshot content copyright information & disclaimer

Album arts contained in the screenshots have been substituted with random photos from Pexel. All credits go to the original authors.

Euphonica is solely a music player programme and does not provide any media content or sources. Users must provide their own content or manually configure Euphonica to access third party online services.