Gapless

Play your music elegantly.

Gapless (AKA: G4Music) is a light weight music player written in GTK4, focuses on large music collection.

Features

Supports most music file types, Samba and any other remote protocols (depends on GIO and GStreamer).
Fast loading and parsing thousands of music files in very few seconds, monitor local changes.
Low memory usage for large music collection with album covers (embedded and external), no thumbnail caches to store.
Group and sorts by album/artist/title, shuffle list, full-text searching.
Fluent adaptive user interface for different screen (Desktop, Tablet, Mobile).
Gaussian blurred cover as background, follows GNOME light/dark mode.
Supports creating and editing playlists, drag cover to change order or add to another playlist.
Supports drag and drop with other apps.
Supports audio peaks visualizer.
Supports gapless playback.
Supports normalizing volume with ReplayGain.
Supports specified audio sink.
Supports MPRIS control.

pkg install vala meson libadwaita gstreamer1-plugins-all gettext gtk4

It is written in Vala, simple and clean code, with few third-party dependencies:

Clone the code from gitlab.
Install vala, develop packages of gtk4, libadwaita, gstreamer.
Run in the project directory:

meson setup build --buildtype=release

meson install -C build

Check the release tags for change log.