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Festival is an Open Source Music Player with a Unique UI

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jul 03, 2023

The ‘unique’ user-interface won’t suit everyone’s tastes. But in terms of functionality Festival does everything a music player needs to (with a few minor exceptions).

Plus, Festival is blazingly fast — even when processing substantial local music collections. Files, folders, tags, artwork all blink into view instantaneously. Memory usage during playback (on my system) was on par with Rhythmbox, so it’s not quite the lightweight dream – but it’s more nimble than Spotify et al.

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