about

krix is a simple mpd-client for macOS.

It ...

• lives in the menu bar
• handles mpd playlists
• includes a tile based file browser
• displays a waveform of the current song
• assumes your music files are located in '~/Music'
• caches tags, waveforms and images in '~/Music/.krix'

setup

The music player daemon might by installed by:

brew install mpd
brew install mpc
# copy the default config file and adjust it to your needs:
cp /usr/local/etc/mpd/mpd.conf ~/.mpdconf 

These command-line tools are used for generating waveforms and converting cover images:

• audiowaveform
• ffmpeg
• imagemagick

You can install them like this:

brew tap bbc/audiowaveform
brew install audiowaveform
brew install imagemagick
brew install ffmpeg