Ferrum

Ferrum is a desktop application designed for organizing and playing large music collections. The software provides tools for audio file management, metadata editing, and playlist filtering.

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• Playlists and folders. Ferrum enables organization of audio files into custom playlists. Users can create folders to group related playlists, facilitating management of extensive collections.
• Library filtering. The filtering function allows locating tracks by filename, artist, or album. The filter applies in real-time as the user types.
• Play queue. The queue system enables scheduling tracks for immediate playback without modifying saved playlists. The queue persists when the application restarts.
• Metadata editing. Ferrum incorporates tools for modifying ID3 tags of audio files. Users can edit title, artist, album, and track number fields.
• Quick navigation with CmdK or CtrlK. The command palette provides access to any playlist by typing its name. The function is optimized for libraries containing hundreds of playlists.
• Streaming search links support. The mobile version offers links to search for tracks on Spotify and YouTube Music. Links open external platforms with the current track name as search term.
• Fast playlist loading on mobile. The mobile version optimizes loading of large playlists through lazy loading of list items. Opening time is reduced for collections with thousands of tracks.
• Play history. The application logs played tracks in a history list. Scroll position within the history view is preserved when closing and reopening the window.
• Case-insensitive sorting and filtering. Alphabetical sorting operations ignore letter case differences. Text filtering also applies this case-insensitive rule.
• "Show in Playlist" context menu item. The context menu for each track includes an option to locate the track within its source playlist. The view automatically scrolls to the selected track.
• Lyrics support. Ferrum allows embedding song lyrics into audio files through specific metadata fields for synchronized and plain text lyrics. The feature maintains compatibility with standard lyrics storage formats.

Development of Ferrum began in 2022. The project is maintained by developer Kasper. The application is written in the Rust programming language. Development continues with periodic updates adding music library management functionalities.

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