Violin: your minimalist music player for your Linux desktop

You may be tired of some music players with heavy graphical interfaces. If you have older equipment or limited hardware, you may be looking for a minimalist music player for your Linux desktop. That is Violin. It is very light, open source and has a simple graphical interface from which to manage your favorite music. It is written in JavaScript using Electron, an open source development framework maintained by GitHub.

You can go to his GitHub page to download its source code and compile it for the platform you are on, although it is recommended to use the universal Snap package that you can easily install on any GNU / Linux distribution, although it is only available for x86-64 architectures. Personally I consider it a mistake, since if you have a 64-bit computer, it is not necessary to have such a minimalist player ...

You can get more information from this web page, where it also explains how to install it using snap packages. Although its installation is quite simple by executing the following command:

sudo snap install violin-player

After that, you will already have it among your apps. When you open it you will see a simple graphical interface with the playlist in the upper area and the controls in the lower area… come on, the typical player format.

By the way, Violin is also available for other platforms like Windows and macOS, in case you need it in an environment other than Linux. And if you want to obtain more information about the project, collaborate in some way with it, contribute code, or simply download the sources to compile it yourself, you already know that you can visit the developer page GitHub.

So if you didn't know about it and for whatever reason you want to use a music player that requires few hardware resources, here I introduce you to Violin, another alternative among so many ...