Musium

Musium is an album-centered music player. It is designed to run as a daemon on an always-on device connected to speakers. Playback can be controlled from anywhere on the local network through a webinterface.

Musium screenshots

Vaporware warning: while Musium is usable, it is missing essential features, such as the ability to pause playback.

Features

  • Respects album artist and original release date metadata.
  • Supports collaboration albums with multiple album artists.
  • Designed to scale to hundreds of thousands of tracks.
  • User interface responds quickly, and indexing is fast.
  • Optimized to run in resource-constrained environments, such as a Raspberry Pi.
  • Responsive design, supports both mobile and desktop.
  • Logarithmic volume control and loudness normalization.
  • Last.fm and ListenBrainz scrobbling.
  • Thoughtful shuffling.

Limitations

  • Musium is not a tagger, it expects your files to be tagged correctly already.
  • Supports only flac, with no intention to support other audio formats.
  • Runs on Linux, with no intention to become cross-platform.
  • Uses raw ALSA, with no intention to support PulseAudio or PipeWire.

Getting started

Follow the building chapter to build from source. Then write a configuration file to musium.conf:

listen = 0.0.0.0:8233
library_path = /home/user/music
db_path = /home/user/.config/musium.sqlite3
audio_device = HDA Intel PCH

Index the library, compute loudness, and generate cover art thumbnails (requires Imagemagick and Guetzli). Computing loudness and generating thumbnails can take a long time, but you can already continue and start the server when musium scan is past the indexing stage.

target/release/musium scan musium.conf

Start the server:

target/release/musium serve musium.conf

You can now open the library browser at http://localhost:8233. See the webinterface chapter for how to use it.

Musium expects files to be tagged in a particular way, see the tagging chapter for more information.