You need cargo and at least rustc 1.70.

You also need to clone the submodules that include patched libraries found in external/:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/hinto-janai/festival

The built binary is found in target/release/festival[.exe] by default.

The pre-compiled Linux binaries are built on Ubuntu 20.04, you'll need these packages to build:

sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config libdbus-1-dev libpulse-dev libgtk-3-dev

To build the latest stable release:

git checkout gui-v1.4.0
cargo build --release

To build the latest stable release:

git checkout gui-v1.4.0
cargo build --release

To build the latest stable release:

git checkout gui-v1.4.0
cargo build --release

There is a build.rs file in gui/ solely for Windows-specific things:

1. It sets the icon in File Explorer
2. It sets some miscellaneous metadata
3. It statically links VCRUNTIME140.dll (the binary will not be portable without this)

Festival does not directly support compilations (a single album, but with various artists) at the moment.

It will still load the album, but it will be spread out for each different artist.

Your audio files must have proper metadata for Festival to detect it.

The required tags are:

• Artist
• Album

If the song title tag does not exist, the filename will be used instead.

For more details on metadata related errors, start Festival in a console:

./festival

and look for yellow W (Warn) log messages during a Collection reset.

If your audio file has embedded album art, Festival will use it.

If no embedded album art metadata is found, Festival will:

• Search in the same directory as the file for an image file
• Search in the file's parent directory for an image file

If an image file is not found, a default ? album art will be used.

The supported image file formats are:

• JPG/JPEG
• PNG
• BMP
• ICO
• TIFF
• WebP

Festival will look for a date metadata tag generally resembling the YYYY-MM-DD format.

Some examples of dates that will work:

• 2022-12-31 (YYYY-MM-DD)
• 2022 (YYYY)
• 31-12-2022 (DD-MM-YYYY)
• 12-31-2022 (MM-DD-YYYY)
• 2022/12/31 (YYYY-MM-DD but with a different separator)
• 20221231 (YYYY-MM-DD but with no separator)
• 2022-1-1 (YYYY-MM-DD)
• 2022-01-01 (YYYY-MM-DD)

As long as the year exists, the date will be parsed correctly. This means MM-DD metadata will be not parsed, so:

• 12-31 (MM-DD)
• 31-12 (DD-MM)

will not work. These will show up as ????-??-?? in Festival.

To fix your music metadata, see below for metadata editors.

Festival is only a music player, not a metadata editor.

Some metadata editors you could use:

• Kid3
• mp3tag
• puddletag
• MusicBrainz Picard

The supported audio codecs are:

• AAC
• ADPCM
• ALAC
• FLAC
• MP3/MP2/MP1/MPA/MPEG
• Ogg/Vorbis
• Opus
• WAV
• WavPack