Silky

Silky is a lightweight, responsive Libadwaita / GTK4 music player written in C.

Features

• Multi-backend support:
  • Local Library: Fast scanning with TagLib metadata extraction (.mp3, .flac, .ogg, .m4a, .wav, .opus).
  • Navidrome / Subsonic: MD5 salt authentication, server search, cover art and streaming.
  • Deezer: REST search API with high-quality preview streaming.
  • SoundCloud: API v2 search and progressive stream resolving.
  • YouTube / Invidious: Audio stream extraction.
  • Spotify (NTify approach): Spotify metadata mapping with lossless stream resolution.
• Audio Engine: GStreamer pipeline with shuffle, repeat modes (Off/All/One), continuous playback progression, and seek support.
• Playlists & M3U: SQLite database store with M3U import and export.
• Desktop Integration: Full MPRIS D-Bus support (org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Silky) for system media controls and lock screen widgets.
• Adaptive UI: Responsive Libadwaita layout scaling down to mobile viewports (AdwBreakpoint, AdwViewSwitcherBar, AdwClamp).

Releases & Downloads

Pre-built binaries for Alpine Linux (x86_64 and aarch64 / arm64):

• Downloads Hub: https://tilde.horse/~john/silky/
• v1.0.0 Packages:
  • silky-alpine-x86_64.tar.gz
  • silky-alpine-aarch64.tar.gz
  • SHA256SUMS

Run on Alpine

apk add libadwaita gtk4.0 gstreamer gst-plugins-base \
    gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-ugly \
    gst-libav libsoup3 json-glib sqlite-libs taglib

tar -xvf silky-alpine-x86_64.tar.gz
./silky

Building from Source

Requirements

• clang / gcc
• meson & ninja or make
• libadwaita-1
• gtk4
• gstreamer-1.0 & gstreamer-audio-1.0
• libsoup-3.0
• json-glib-1.0
• sqlite3
• taglib_c

Compile with Make

make CC=clang
./silky

Compile with Meson

CC=clang meson setup build
ninja -C build
./build/silky

Run Tests

make test CC=clang