Add a simple music player

[sirburpalot]

I am aware that this is not something you're likely to consider working on in the near future, but perhaps you could at some point implement a simple music player with support for multiple formats (MP3, AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, tracker modules and so on), which would, upon launching an audio file in Marta, play that file, as well as all the subsequent audio files in the same directory, in the order that they appear in the list. As far as I know, this is not something that can currently be implemented using the plugin API, and this functionality would be immensely useful to me. I've attached a mockup of what the music player might look like.

[yanex]

Hello @sirburpalot! I definitely understand your feelings, as I also failed to find a decent music player for macOS. An ideal player for me is like WinAMP 2 (though I don't need custom theme support). However, I'm not sure if it would be good idea to mix music player functionality with a file manager. The alternative would be to introduce some kind of integration between a music player (it may not exist yet) and Marta.

[sirburpalot]

To me, it seems logical that a file manager should feature a simple music player, since many users prefer to use hierarchies of folders and files in order to organise their music collection, due to it being more flexible than the rigid, library-centric approach that's used in players such as iTunes. It's already possible to listen to music in Marta using Quick Look, but it's not optimal because the music stops playing as soon as you navigate away from the file.

[Strandbummler]

You could use iina player. It has the ability to play all files in a directory even if you just opened one file. It's a global setting. I prefer iina over VLC because it is much more modern. A true mac app just like marta.