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lowfi
lowfi is a tiny rust app that serves a single purpose: play lofi. It'll do this as simply as it can: no albums, no ads, just lofi.
Disclaimer
All of the audio files played in lowfi are from Lofi Girl's website, under their licensing guidelines.
If god forbid you're planning to use this in a commercial setting, please follow their rules.
Why?
I really hate modern music platforms, and I wanted a small, "suckless" app that would literally just play lofi without video so I could use it whenever.
I also wanted it to be fairly resiliant to inconsistent networks, so it buffers 5 whole songs at a time instead of parts of the same song.
Although, lowfi is yet to be properly tested in difficult conditions, so don't rely on it too much until I do that. See Scraping if you're interested in downloading the tracks. Beware, there's a lot of them.
Installing
Note
If you're interested in maintaining a package for
lowfion package managers such as homebrew and the like, open an issue.
Dependencies
You'll need Rust 1.74.0+.
On MacOS & Windows, no extra dependencies are needed.
On Linux, you'll also need alsa and it's headers (alsa-lib on Arch,
libasound2-dev on Ubuntu). Make sure to also install pulseaudio-alsa
if you're using pulseaudio.
Cargo
The recommended installation method is to use cargo:
cargo install lowfi
# If you want MPRIS support.
cargo install lowfi --features mpris
and making sure $HOME/.cargo/bin is added to $PATH.
AUR
If you're on Arch, you can also use the AUR:
yay -S lowfi
Manual
git clone https://github.com/talwat/lowfi
cd lowfi
cargo build --release
./target/release/lowfi
Usage
lowfi
Yeah, that's it.
Controls
| Key | Function |
|---|---|
s |
Skip song |
p |
Play/Pause |
+/- |
Volume Up/Down |
q |
Quit |
Extra Flags
If you have something you'd like to tweak about lowfi, you can run lowfi help
to view the available options.
Scraping
lowfi also has a scrape command which is usually not relevant, but
if you're trying to download some files from Lofi Girls' website,
it can be useful.
An example of scrape is as follows,
lowfi scrape --extension zip --include-full
where more information can be found by running lowfi help scrape.
Custom Track Lists
Warning
Custom track lists are going to be pretty particular. This is because I still want to keep
lowfias simple as possible, so custom lists will be very similar to how the built in list functions.This also means that there will be no added flexibility to these lists, so you'll have to work that out on your own.
lowfi also can support custom track lists, although the default one with Lofi Girl's is embedded into the binary.
To use a custom list, use the --tracks flag. This can either be a path to some file,
or it could also be the name of a file (without the .txt extension) in the data
directory, so on Linux it's ~/.local/share/lowfi.
For example, lowfi --tracks minipop would load ~/.local/share/lowfi/minipop.txt.
Whereas if you did lowfi --tracks /home/user/Music/minipop.txt it would load from that
specified directory.
The Format
In List's, the first line should be the base URL, followed by the rest of the tracks.
Each track will be first appended to the base URL, and then the result use to download
the track. All tracks should end in .mp3 and as such must be in the MP3 format.
lowfi won't put a / between the base & track for added flexibility, so for most cases you
should have a trailing / in your base url. The exception to this is if the track name begins
with something like https://, where in that case the base will not be prepended to it.
For example, in this list:
https://lofigirl.com/wp-content/uploads/
2023/06/Foudroie-Finding-The-Edge-V2.mp3
2023/04/2-In-Front-Of-Me.mp3
https://file-examples.com/storage/fea570b16e6703ef79e65b4/2017/11/file_example_MP3_5MG.mp3
lowfi would download these three URLs:
https://lofigirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Foudroie-Finding-The-Edge-V2.mp3https://file-examples.com/storage/fea570b16e6703ef79e65b4/2017/11/file_example_MP3_5MG.mp3https://lofigirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2-In-Front-Of-Me.mp3