03-24-2022, 01:48 AM | #1 |
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Buck, fully-fledged music player for Kindle w/ ID3 tag support
I have an old Kindle Touch stored in my attic, and one of the biggest features I miss about it is its media player. It's archaic, but it was like sounds were coming out of paper!
I have been planning to build a music player for it with album art and everything, and here it is!! I'm proud to present Buck, a music player with ID3 (and thus album art) support along with album based sorting ===== QUICK NOTE ===== It should theoretically work with any e-ink device since I only call FBink and a pre-built mplayer binary, but I can't test it since I don't have other devices. If you have other devices, I'd love to hear how it goes! =================== INTRODUCTION E-ink devices have traditionally been only for reading... well no more! Buck is a fully-fledged music player for e-ink devices. Features: - Using the generated Table of Contents, pick the song you wanna play - Afterwards, in the search bar, there are two commands you can do ;b - to open up the GUI ;b <track number> - to play up the track of your choice - Here's what the GUI looks like Tap near the top to control volume and the bottom right to close the UI! ** Playlist support is not planned at the moment! I'm not exactly sure how it would work, and I don't personally use playlists INSTALLATION Requirements - USBnet - KUAL In the root directory of the GitHub repository is a folder named `buck`. That's everything you'll need. 1. Move the buck folder to your /mnt/us/ folder Folder structure: - /mnt/us/buck/buck - /mnt/us/buck/buck-cli - /mnt/us/buck/buck-cli.sh - /mnt/us/buck/kual_buck - /mnt/us/buck/assets - /mnt/us/buck/bin - /mnt/us/buck/lib 2. The KUAL extension - The /mnt/us/buck/kual_buck folder is the KUAL extension, move it to /mnt/us/extensions 3. The Search Commands
And that's it! You can launch it by typing ;b or ;b <track number> in the Kindle search bar In KUAL, you'll also have an option to restart Buck. This is if you add new songs and don't want to reboot. A Note About Volume: 100% IS PROBABLY NOT THE BEST VOLUME! The Kindle Touch is very quiet, and so there is software volume boosting going on. By default 100% is actually 150%. Although it works for some songs, I recommend sticking to about 90% (although if you know a song works with 100, go for it!) It gives the best balance between loudness and compatibility with pretty much all songs. K, have fun listening! GITHUB: https://github.com/Bill13579/buck CREDITS First off, the amazing FBInk by NiLuJe bundled with USBnet! The built-in `aplayer` is terrible for advanced control of media playback, and so here I use the great `mplayer` binary built for the Kindle by the user `Smarter` Link: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ghlight=winamp WMCtrl and the UI disabling scripts are the product of twobob's awesome work here! It allowed the UI to not conflict with the Kindle's own interface https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=194270 Icons: https://online.rapidresizer.com/phot...to-pattern.php https://pixabay.com/vectors/note-sou...concert-24074/ https://pixabay.com/photos/reindeer-...tlers-5635891/ Last edited by issybird; 03-24-2022 at 08:47 AM. Reason: Oversize images attached as thumbnail. Please read the guidelines for limits on image size. |
03-24-2022, 08:01 PM | #2 |
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That looks mighty cool, kudos .
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03-24-2022, 11:12 PM | #3 |
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Thanks! One thing bugging me is definitely the Kindle Touch's storage limit
Mine's full already! (I do admit I have 40 albums on it) I'll most definitely try to port it to one of the Kobo devices with bigger storage (Hopefully mplayer works with the new BT feature??) |
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