<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jooapa/jammer/main/icons/trans_icon512x512.png" width="35px" align="left"> Jammer — light-weight CLI music player

Introduction

Jammer is a simple CLI music player that supports playing songs from your local files, Youtube and Soundcloud.

Compatible with Windows, Linux, (most likely works on MacOS too, but i have no way to compile to mac)

• The player doesn't stream the songs, but downloads them to local storage.
• The Jammer folder is located in the user's home directory and contains the downloaded songs, playlists, settings, keybinds, locales and effects modification.
• Jammer uses Bass for playing the songs and ManagedBass for being able to use it with C#, SoundCloudExplode, YoutubeExplode, yt-dlp for downloading the songs and Spectre.Console for the UI.

Table of Contents

• Install/Update
• Usage
• Supported formats
• M3U and M3U8 Support
• MIDI support
• RSS
• Streams
• Soundcloud Client ID
• YouTube Download Backends
• Jammer Location
• Environment Variables
• Themes
• Visualizer
• Effects
• Language support
• Developing
• Build / Run yourself
• Known Issues

Install/Update

Install

Github latest Release Linux version of Jammer requires fuse2. Ubuntu 22.02 or newer install apt install libfuse2 ffmpeg

Update existing

jammer --update

Usage

when using Soundcloud or Youtube links do not forget to use https:// at the start.

# examples of how to use
jammer
jammer [song] ... [folder]
jammer https://soundcloud.com/username/track-name
jammer https://soundcloud.com/username/sets/playlist-name
jammer https://youtube.com/watch?v=video-id
jammer https://youtube.com/playlist?list=playlist-id
jammer https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jooapa/jammer/main/npc_music/616845.mp3
jammer https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jooapa/jammer/main/example/terraria.jammer
jammer https://anchor.fm/s/101ec0f34/podcast/rss
jammer "path/to/song.mp3"

jammer     --start        # opens jammer folder
jammer     --update       # checks for updates and installs
jammer -h, --help         # show help
jammer -D                 # debug mode
jammer -v, --version      # show version

## these commands are for the playlists in the <jammer/playlists> folder
jammer -p, --play       <name>                # play playlist
jammer -c, --create     <name>                # create playlist
jammer -d, --delete     <name>                # delete playlist
jammer -a, --add        <name> <song> ...     # add song to playlist
jammer -r, --remove     <name> <song> ...     # remove song from playlist
jammer -s, --show       <name>                # show songs in playlist
jammer -l, --list                             # list all playlists

jammer -f, --flush                            # deletes all the songs in songs folder
jammer -gp, --get-path                        # get the path to the <jammer/songs> folder
jammer -hm, --home                            # play all songs from the <jammer/songs> folder
jammer -so, --songs                           # open <jammer/songs> folder

Example of making a playlist in cli

jammer -c new_playlist
jammer -a new_playlist "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnaJlq-zKc0WUXhwhSowwJdpe1fZumJzd"
jammer -p new_playlist

Supported formats

Jammer supports the following audio formats: .mp3, .ogg, .wav, .mp2, .mp1, .aiff, .aif, .mod, .mo3, .s3m, .xm, .it, .aac, .adts, .mp4, .m4a, .m4b, .mid, .midi, .rmi, .kar

• JAMMER Jammer playlist
• FOLDER Folder/Directory (support playing all audio files within a folder)
• YOUTUBE Youtube video/playlist
• SOUNDCLOUD Soundcloud song/playlist
• RSS RSS feed

MIDI support

Jammer supports playing .mid, .midi, .rmi, .kar files. To play, you need to have a SoundFont file .sf2, .sf3, .sfz, sf2pack

Here is one sf2 file you can use ChoriumRevA.SF2, This is BASS's recommended SoundFont file.

To change the SoundFont file, press G (default keybind).

Link to a soundFont by path: This will link the SoundFont file by path. This will not copy the SoundFont file to the <jammer/soundfonts>.

Import soundfont by path: This will copy the SoundFont file to the <jammer/soundfonts>.

Will show all the SoundFont files in the <jammer/soundfonts> folder.

RSS

Jammer supports playing audio from RSS feeds. You can add an RSS feed by the url. Then you can open the rss, and it will show all the audio files in the feed.

Streams

Streams are filtered views of your Jammer playlists that allow you to play specific subsets of songs based on tags or properties.

Currently available stream:

Favorites Stream (fav / favorites)

The favorites stream plays only songs that have been marked as favorites using the IsFavorite tag.

Usage:

# Play favorites from a specific playlist
jammer -p playlist:fav
jammer -p epic:favorites

# Play favorites from a playlist file
jammer example.jammer:fav

How to favorite songs:

• Press Ctrl + F (default keybind) while playing a song to toggle its favorite status
• Favorited songs will be marked with a ★ symbol in the player interface

This allows you to curate your favorite tracks within any playlist and easily access them later without creating separate playlist files.

Themes

You can create your own theme by pressing T (default keybind)

Select 'Create a New Theme' and write the theme's name. Go to <jammer/themes>, you should see name.json. It will contain all the information needed for creating a theme.

Visualizer

You can change the visualizer style in custom Themes. To change the visualizer settings, you can change the Visualizer.ini file in the root folder.

Effects

• Reverb
• Echo
• Flanger
• Chorus
• Distortion
• Compressor
• Gargle
• Parametric Equalizer

These can be changed in the Effects.ini file in the jammer folder.

Jammer Location

• Windows: C:\Users\username\jammer
• Linux: ~/jammer

Environment Variables

You can customize Jammer's storage locations using these environment variables. They can point to either directories or files depending on the variable:

• JAMMER_CONFIG_PATH - Path to the configuration directory
• JAMMER_SONGS_PATH - Path to the songs storage directory
• JAMMER_PLAYLISTS_PATH - Path to the playlists directory

Examples:

Windows:

$env:JAMMER_SONGS_PATH = "D:\Music\JammerSongs"
$env:JAMMER_CONFIG_PATH = "D:\AppData\Jammer"

Linux/macOS:

export JAMMER_SONGS_PATH="/mnt/music/jammer_songs"
export JAMMER_CONFIG_PATH="/home/user/.config/jammer"

M3U and M3U8 Support

Jammer supports m3u and m3u8 playlists. You can play them but with pretty limited functionality.

m3u files can be played just by opening them with Jammer. But cannot be opened with the --play, -p command from the <jammer/playlists> folder. You can Save as (default keybind Alt + S) the m3u file, Thus creating a JAMMER playlist to <jammer/playlists> folder.

Starting the m3u or m3u8 file with #EXTM3U and example of the m3u of all the features that are supported.

#EXTM3U

#EXTINF:0,Lady Gaga - Telephone ft. Beyoncé
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwnvgz3ey78
#EXTINF:0,Epic Music 
/home/user/epic music/epic_music.mp3

/tmp/secret_klinoff.mp3

Language support

Translations may not be up-to-date

Currently supported languages:

• English
• Finnish (antonako1)
• Portuguese (Natanaelfelixx)

Create new translation by copying already existing .ini file from /locales and translating it.

Soundcloud Client ID

soundcloud every now and then changes the client id, which is not cool, so this allows change allows the user to change it :) You can change the client id by going to the settings and changing the client id.

how to get the id

• open up the soundcloud.com
• open the inspect element -> Network tab
• start playing some random song
• you start to see some entries in the network tab. you should see some thing like me?client_id=wDSKS1Bp8WmdlRPkZ7NQXGs67PMXl2Nd

or you can use the automatic client id fetcher, that is located in the settings menu. (Might crash on linux)

YouTube Download Backends

Jammer supports two different backends for downloading YouTube content:

YoutubeExplode (Default)

The default backend that works out of the box without any additional setup.

yt-dlp Backend

An alternative backend that uses yt-dlp for downloading YouTube content.

Setup Requirements:

Windows:

In Jammer installation folder

• Download yt-dlp.exe from the official releases
• Place the yt-dlp.exe file in the same folder as jammer.exe

Environment Variable

• Alternatively, place the yt-dlp.exe binary to environment variable JAMMER_YTDLP_BIN

Linux/macOS

Global Installation

• Install yt-dlp and ensure it's available