Gomu (Go Music Player)

Gomu is intuitive, powerful CLI music player. It has embedded scripting language and event hook to enable user to customize their config extensively.

Features

• lightweight
• simple
• fast
• show audio files as tree
• queue cache
• vim keybindings
• youtube-dl integration
• audio file management
• customizable
• find music from youtube
• scriptable config
• download lyric
• id3v2 tag editor

Dependencies

If you are using ubuntu, you need to install alsa and required dependencies

$ sudo apt install libasound2-dev go

Optional dependencies can be installed by this command

$ sudo apt install youtube-dl

Installation

$ go get -u github.com/issadarkthing/gomu

For arch users, you can install from the AUR

using yay:

$ yay -S gomu

using aura:

$ sudo aura -A gomu

Configuration

By default, gomu will look for audio files in ~/music directory. If you wish to change to your desired location, edit ~/.config/gomu/config file and change music_dir = path/to/your/musicDir.

Keybindings

Each panel has it's own additional keybinding. To view the available keybinding for the specific panel use ?

Key (General)	Description
tab	change panel
space	toggle play/pause
esc	close popup
n	skip
q	quit
+	volume up
-	volume down
f/F	forward 10/60 seconds
b/B	rewind 10/60 seconds
?	toggle help
m	open repl
T	switch lyrics
c	show colors

Key (Playlist)	Description
j	down
k	up
h	close node in playlist
a	create playlist
l (lowercase L)	add song to queue
L	add playlist to queue
d	delete file from filesystemd
D	delete playlist from filesystem
Y	download audio
r	refresh
R	rename
y/p	yank/paste file
/	find in playlist
s	search audio from youtube
t	edit mp3 tags
1/2	find lyric if available

Key (Queue)	Description
j	down
k	up
l (lowercase L)	play selected song
d	remove from queue
D	delete playlist
z	toggle loop
s	shuffle
/	find in queue
t	lyric delay increase 0.5 second
r	lyric delay decrease 0.5 second

Scripting

Gomu uses anko as its scripting language. You can read more about scripting at our wiki

Keybinds.def_g("ctrl_x", func() {
    out, err = shell(`echo "hello world"`)
    if err != nil {
        debug_popup("an error occured")
    }
    info_popup(out)
})

Project Background

I just wanted to implement my own music player with a programming language i'm currently learning (Go). Gomu might not be stable as it in constant development. For now, it can fulfill basic music player functions such as:

• add and delete songs from queue
• create playlists
• skip
• play
• pause
• forward and rewind

Similar Projects

• termusic (Written in rust and well maintained)

Album Photo

For songs downloaded by Gomu, the thumbnail will be embeded as Album cover. If you're not satisfied with the cover, you can edit it with kid3 and attach an image as album cover. Jpeg is tested, but other formats should work as well.

Donation

Hi! If you guys think the project is cool, you can buy me a coffee ;)

Seeking and more advanced stuff has not yet been implemented; feel free to contribute.