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Warning

Playout is a legacy app. It still works with the Takeout server, but new features land in the native apps.

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

Note

Only Linux support with ALSA has been tested.

Screenshots

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