Music Player 🎵

After seeing the Spotify payment hit my card, I decided to build a fully-featured music player for Windows. It’s lightweight, supports folders, files, shuffle, repeat, themes, album art, and keeps all your settings saved for next time.

How it works

1. Open the app and pick a music file or an entire folder.
2. Control playback with:
   • Play / Pause / Next / Previous
   • Volume and seek sliders
   • Shuffle and repeat modes
   • Variable playback speed (0.5x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x)
3. Switch between Dark and Light theme.
4. Album art will display automatically if your MP3 files contain it.
5. All settings (volume, last track, playlist, theme, repeat/shuffle, playback rate) are saved and loaded on startup.
6. Minimize to system tray to keep it running in the background.

What I learned while making it

• PyQt5 QMediaPlayer and QMediaPlaylist for handling audio.
• Persistent settings with JSON for saving user preferences.
• Dynamic UI updates, including album art loading and theme switching.
• System tray integration for background operation.
• Handling folders and individual files efficiently in Python.

Dependencies

Install missing libraries using:

pip install -r requirements.txt

This app also needs FFmpeg for pulling .opus file cover art, please make sure you have it in your path.

Files

• player_ui.py → UI logic created with Qt Designer.
• musicplayer.pyw → Main application code.
• icon.ico → Window and system tray icon made by me!
• requirements.txt → The required packages for the code to work.

Note 📝

Unlike some of my older projects, I’m actively planning to use this one, so expect occasional updates and bugfixes.