Davis

Davis is a MPD client for music lovers.

Davis displays detailed metadata:

Davis displays any metadata you like! The performers, conductor, ensemble, work, movement, recording location, etc., can all be displayed so long as it's in your tags:

Davis supports album art

Davis can fetch album art directly from MPD, using the albumart command of the MPD protocol. This means that davis can fetch album art even from remote MPD instances, and does not need to know the location of your music directory. With a custom subcommand (here davis-cur), it is also possible to display the album art as sixel graphics in the terminal:

Davis understands classical music

Davis will group your queue by work, and displays movement tags instead of title:

Custom subcommands

Davis can be extended with custom subcommands (here davis-fzf):

See the manual for details on how to add new subcommands.

Installing

You will need a rust toolchain. To install, you run

cargo install davis

Shell completions

Shell completion (tab-complete) is available in /completions. Only bash is currently supported, but PRs for other shells are very welcome!