MusicPlayer

MusicPlayer is an open source music player for Mac and Windows.

Features

Playlists

• Add songs to a playlist by:
  • Clicking the "Add Song to Playlist" button when a song is selected.
  • Dragging a song, artist, or album and dropping on the desired playlist to add the dragged contents to the playlist.
  • Selecting multiple songs using

    CTRL

    or

    SHIFT

    keys, then dragging & dropping on a playlist.

Automatic Music Library Updates

• The app's music library updates on startup if a song has been added or deleted from the user's music directory.

Compatible with Media Keys on Keyboard

• The

  Play/Pause

  ,

  Next

  , and

  Previous

  media keys can be used to play, pause, or skip songs.
• Please note that this feature is only available on Windows.

Search

• Easily search for any artist, album, or song.

Installation Instructions

1. Download the

   MusicPlayer.jar

   file from the

   releases

   directory in the repository.

2. Create a directory in your computer to store the JAR file. When the app runs for the first time, it will create an

   img

   directory and a

   library.xml

   file to store song data in the directory where the JAR is located.

3. NOTE: THIS STEP IS ONLY NEEDED ON WINDOWS. Download the

   JIntellitype.dll

   file from the

   releases

   directory and place it in the directory created in Step 2. This file is required by the

   jintellitype

   library to enable media key functionality on keyboards. The app will not start properly if the

   JIntellitype.dll

   file is not in the same directory as the

   MusicPlayer.jar

   file.

4. Run the app by double-clicking the

   MusicPlayer.jar

   file.

(OPTIONAL)

1. Create a desktop shortcut for

   MusicPlayer.jar

   .

2. Download

   MusicPlayer_Icon.ico

   from the

   releases

   directory and set it as the icon for the desktop shortcut.

Supported File Types

MusicPlayer supports the following file types:

java
// MP3
case "mp3":
// MP4
case "mp4":
case "m4a":
case "m4v":
// WAV
case "wav":

Build

The project was built in eclipse with the following directory structure.

• lib

  : Contains jaudiotagger library used for audio metatagging and jintellitype library used to enable media key functionality on keyboards.

• releases

  : Contains the JAR file for the latest release

• src

  : Contains project source code

License

Code released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.