SPlayer-Next

SPlayer-Next

🎵 Cross-platform desktop music player with rich lyric support and wide audio format compatibility.

Successor to SPlayer.

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Features

• 🎵 Broad format support — MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, OGG, APE, and more, decoded via FFmpeg
• 📝 Rich lyrics — LRC / QRC / YRC / TTML, word-by-word highlighting and translations, with desktop, dynamic-island, and taskbar lyric windows
• 🌐 Streaming servers — Subsonic / Navidrome / Jellyfin / Emby (multi-server, auto-connect)
• 🖥️ Cross-platform — Windows / macOS / Linux
• 🎚️ Audio spectrum — real-time FFT visualization
• 🏷️ Metadata editing — edit local track tags and cover art
• ⬇️ Downloads — built-in download manager
• 🎧 System media integration — Windows SMTC / Linux MPRIS / macOS Now Playing + Discord RPC
• ⚡ High-performance audio engine — FFmpeg + Rust
• 🎨 Adaptive theming — cover-based colors, Light / Dark / Auto
• 📈 Last.fm scrobbling

Development

Requirements

• Node.js >= 22
• pnpm >= 10
• Rust toolchain (required to build the native modules; see below)

Native Modules

Core performance features are powered by Rust-based native modules:

Module	Description
audio-engine	High-performance audio decoding (FFmpeg), playback, FFT spectrum, cover extraction
media-ctrl	System media controls + Discord Rich Presence
taskbar-lyric	Native Windows taskbar lyric rendering

pnpm dev and pnpm build compile the native modules automatically. To skip them (e.g. when working only on the UI), set SKIP_NATIVE_BUILD=true.

Getting Started

# 1. Install dependencies
pnpm install

# 2. Start the dev app (builds native modules in debug, then launches Electron)
pnpm dev

Building

pnpm build         # Full build: clean → native → typecheck → electron-vite

pnpm build:win     # Package for Windows
pnpm build:mac     # Package for macOS
pnpm build:linux   # Package for Linux (AppImage / deb / rpm / tar.gz / pacman)

By default a build targets the current architecture only. To target specific architectures, append them, e.g. pnpm build:win --x64 --arm64.

Other Scripts

pnpm typecheck        # tsc + vue-tsc (node + web targets)
pnpm lint             # ESLint
pnpm format           # Prettier
pnpm build:native     # Build the Rust native modules only (add `--dev` for debug)

Install

Arch Linux / Manjaro / EndeavourOS

Download the .pacman package from the release page and install it with pacman:

sudo pacman -U ./splayer-next-*.pacman

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to the open-source projects that make SPlayer-Next possible:

• applemusic-like-lyrics — Apple Music-style lyrics display component library
• NeteaseCloudMusicApiEnhanced — NetEase Cloud Music API (backup + enhanced)

License

This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0).

• Modification & distribution: any modification or distribution must also be released under AGPL-3.0, with the complete source code provided.
• Derivative works: must adopt AGPL-3.0 as well, and must retain this project's license and copyright notice in an appropriate place.
• Attribution: the original author and copyright information must be preserved. You may add your own notice for a derivative work, but you must not remove or alter the original.
• Commercial use: if used for sale or any other for-profit purpose, the source code and a link to the original project must be provided. Because this project relies on third-party services, commercial use may carry legal risk.
• No warranty: the software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, as described in the AGPL-3.0.

Disclaimer

This project is intended for personal learning and research only, and must not be used for commercial or unlawful purposes. Some features rely on third-party APIs; users are solely responsible for ensuring their use complies with the relevant laws, regulations, and service agreements. The authors accept no liability for any direct or indirect consequences arising from the use of this project.