CoverGrid

CoverGrid (mcg) is a client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD), focusing on albums instead of single tracks. It is not intended to be a replacement for your favorite MPD client but an addition to get a better album-experience.

Website: https://www.suruatoel.xyz/codes/mcg

License: GPL v3

Dependencies:

• Python 3
• python-dateutil
• GTK 4 (>= 4.18) (python-gobject)
• libadwaita (>= 1.2)
• Avahi (optional)
• python-keyring (optional)
• meson and ninja (building)

Additionally a MPD server (version >= 0.21.0) is required at runtime.

Building

Build the application with meson and ninja:

$ meson build
$ ninja -C build

Running/Testing

For testing the application and running it without (system-wide) installation, donwload/clone the code, build it with the --prefix option and install it with ninja:

$ meson setup --prefix $(pwd)/install build
$ ninja -C build
$ ninja -C build install

After that you can run it with meson’s devenv command:

$ meson devenv -C build src/mcg

Installing

Install the application system-wide with meson (after building):

$ ninja -C build install

Note: On Linux using the distribution’s package manager is the preferred way of installing applications system-wide.

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