🎶 Harmony Music

Stream music from your terminal without compromising your privacy.

📖 Table Of Contents

• What's this?
• Features
• Requirements
• Installation
• Usage
• Configuration
• Contributing

❔ What's this?

Harmony is a command-line music player that streams audio directly from JioSaavn without data collection or user tracking. It uses the JioSaavn API to fetch search results and stream music through your terminal.

🎧 Features

• Low resource usage - Runs with 1-5% CPU usage during playback
• Privacy focused - No data collection or user tracking
• High-quality audio - 320 kbps bitrate streaming
• Synchronized lyrics - Real-time lyrics display
• Session persistence - Queue saves automatically between sessions
• Local playlists - Create and manage playlists stored on your device
• Spotify integration - Import tracks, albums, and playlists from Spotify URLs
• Trending music - Browse currently trending tracks
• Last.fm scrobbling - Optional Last.fm integration for tracking listening history. See Last.FM Integration for more information.

📜 Requirements

• mpv - Media player for audio playback
• Linux system (Windows binaries not yet available)

💻 Installation

Download the latest binary from the releases section or install it directly:

sudo wget https://github.com/ZingyTomato/harmonymusic/releases/latest/download/harmony -O /usr/local/bin/harmony
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/harmony

Or, install it from the AUR.

yay -S harmony

👨‍🔧 Usage

Track Selection

Single track:

1. Track1 - Artist1 (02:59)
2. Track2 - Artist2 (03:33)
3. Track3 - Artist3 (03:30)
4. Track4 - Artist4 (03:01)

[(P)lay, (S)how queue, (Q)uit, (E)dit, (C)lear, (V)iew playlists]: 1

Multiple tracks:

[(P)lay, (S)how queue, (Q)uit, (E)dit, (C)lear, (V)iew playlists]: 1 2 3

Range selection:

[(P)lay, (S)how queue, (Q)uit, (E)dit, (C)lear, (V)iew playlists]: 1..3

Selects tracks 1, 2, and 3

Command-line Options

usage: harmony [-h] [-t] [-p] [-v] [-dl] [query ...]

Harmony - Terminal-based music streamer powered by MPV
https://github.com/ZingyTomato/Harmony-Music

positional arguments:
  query                 Search query (e.g., 'harmony Never Gonna Give You Up')
                        or Spotify URL (e.g., 'harmony https://open.spotify.com/xxxx')

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t, --trending        show top 20 trending tracks worldwide
  -p, --playlist        manage playlists (view existing or create new)
  -v, --version         display program version
  -dl, --disable-lyrics disable synchronized lyrics in MPV

🔨 Configuration

Harmony creates a config file at ~/.config/harmony on first run. All settings can be modified in this file or overridden with command-line arguments.

Configuration Options

Setting	Description	Default
SHOW_SYNCED_LYRICS	Display synchronized lyrics in MPV	false
PERSISTENT_QUEUE	Save queue between sessions	true
LOOP_QUEUE	Loop tracks in queue	false
LASTFM_API_KEY	Last.fm API key for scrobbling	null
LASTFM_API_SECRET	Last.fm API secret	null
LASTFM_USERNAME	Last.fm username	null
LASTFM_PASSWORD	Last.fm password	null

Last.fm Integration

To enable Last.fm scrobbling:

1. Create a Last.fm API account
2. Add your credentials to the config file
3. View existing API keys

🏥 Contributing

Bug reports and feature requests are welcome. Please open an issue to discuss any problems or suggestions.