Ferrum

Music library and player
Download for Mac, Windows or Linux

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Features

• Playlists & folders
• Filtering
• Queue
• Metadata editing
• Fast. Navigation, sorting & filtering should be instant even for libraries with 100 000 tracks
• Quick playlist navigation with CmdK or CtrlK

Dev instructions

Get started

1. Install Node.js
2. Install Rust
3. Run npm install

Structure

App (Electron)

• Source: src/electron.js and src/electron/
• Build output: build/app/

Web (the frontend)

• Source code: napi and src/
• Build output: build/web/

Napi (the native Rust backend)

• Source code: src-native/
• Build output: ferrum-addon/addon.node

Commands

• npm run dev: Start app in dev mode
• npm run dev-release: Start app in dev mode (optimized)
• npm run build: Build
• npm run lint: Lint
• npm run format: Format

Publish new version

1. Run npm run check
2. Update CHANGELOG.md
3. Run npm version --no-git-tag <version> to bump the version number
4. Create a git tag in the format v#.#.#
5. Add release notes to the generated GitHub release and publish it