Console

The TakeoutFM console player is called Playout.

Playout is command line app, written in Go, and runs on several platforms.

Features

• Supports music, podcasts, Internet radio
• Audio support: flac, mp3, vorbis, wav
• Platform support: Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and more
• Search based playlists
• Repeat & shuffle
• Visual or simple UI
• ASCII art album covers
• ListenBrainz

Screenshots

• Radio
• Album

Installation

Download and build playout from source.

$ go install takeoutfm.dev/takeout/cmd/playout@latest

Setup

Config File

# ~/.config/playout/config.yaml
endpoint: "https://yourserver"
enableTrackActivity: true
enableListenBrainz: true

Authenticate

# get an auth code
$ playout auth --get
code is 86D9RT

Use the app or web ui to login with the auth code

# confirm auth code
$ playout auth --check

Tokens

All tokens are stored here:

~/.config/playout/tokens.yaml

These are secrets so keep this file protected.

ListenBrainz

Edit tokens.yaml and append your ListenBrainz token (lbztoken)

# ~/.config/playout/tokens.yaml
accesstoken: ...
code: 86D9RT
codetoken: ...
mediatoken: ...
refreshtoken: ...
lbztoken: aaa-111-bbb-333