Fooyin Music Player 0.9.0 Added Autoplaylists & Synced Lyrics

Fooyin, the free open-source Foobar2000 inspired music player, released new 0.9.0 (and 0.9.1 with quick fixes) version few days ago.

In case you didn’t know Fooyin, it’s a music player features Foobar2000 look like appearance and Qt6-based user interface designed for KDE desktop.

It uses FFmpeg library as backend for local music playback, and supports VGM (Video Game Music), ReplayGain, tag editing, and gapless playback. And, it supports editing mode to customize the app layout, and it’s highly extensible with a plugin system and scripting language.

Fooyin is less than 2 years old. It keeps updating with new features. And, the new 0.9.0 version is the most recent one that introduced some new features.

Since the release, it supports searching and downloading album artwork from LastFM, Discogs, and/or MusicBrainz (Cover Art Archive).

Just right-click on current cover art, then you may either select “Quicksearch for artwork” to automatically download and set new artwork. Or, choose “Search for artwork” to open the finder dialog to search more and fetch the one that your favorite.

The downloaded cover arts by default are embedded into the music files (as metadata tags), though you may choose to save them separately in your music folder.

Besides that, Fooyin 0.9 added searching lyrics from either local files or remote sources, including LRCLIB, NetEase Cloud Music, QQ Music, and DarkLyrics.

You can enable/disable lyrics sources, drag’n’drop re-arranging the order in which they are queried, save lyrics (either manually or automatically) into either metadata tags or separate files, and view and edit lyrics using the lyrics editor dialog.

The release also introduced initial autoplaylist support. You can create an autoplaylist from “Files” menu, then load from ‘Most Played’, ‘Recently Added’, ‘Last Played’, ‘Has Lyrics’, or use query by using script editor.

Autoplaylists are playlists generated from a query. They are automatically populated, which means their tracks cannot be edited. They will also regenerate whenever the music library changes i.e. tracks added, deleted or changed.

Other changes in Fooyin 0.9.0 include:

• Add button to clear artwork cache.
• VBR (Variable Bitrate) track update interval configurable.
• Add support audio/x-flac mime type.
• Option to control playback after queued song.
• Add libre.fm service
• New script functions..

For more, see the release note in Github page.

Install Fooyin Music Player

Fooyin so far provides only Linux installer packages which are available to download at the Github page via the link below:

They are .pkg for FreeBSD, .rpm for Fedora, and .deb for Debian and Ubuntu. While, Arch Linux may get it from AUR repository.

For choice, it also runs in sandbox for most Linux through the Flatpak package.

Source: UbuntuHandbook