A music player for FileCat's library, built with FileCatKit. Bundle ID com.lopicl.MusiCat,
URL scheme musicat:// (FileCat's Settings › Companion Apps opens it).
What's there so far:
- Settings: connect FileCat's Local Storage (folder picker, remembered with a bookmark), add other folders, and see the folders added in FileCat (from its library manifest). iOS gives each app its own access, so FileCat's folders have to be picked once in MusiCat too.
- FileCat's servers (SMB, NFS, WebDAV, Nextcloud, SFTP, FTP): Import Servers from FileCat opens
FileCat, which asks before handing over the servers and their passwords (kept in MusiCat's own
keychain). With FileCat's library connected, MusiCat then follows FileCat's list: renamed or
edited servers update, removed ones disappear, and after a password change Update from FileCat
fetches the new one. NFS servers come over without asking, having no password. Browse a server,
play songs straight from a folder, or Use for Music to put a folder's songs (and its
subfolders') in the library. Tags are read over the network, only the parts of each file that
hold them, and cached. Songs download before they play, since hi-res playback needs the whole
file; the next song in the queue downloads meanwhile, and up to 3 GB stay cached.
The protocol code is FileCat's own (
FileCat/FileCat/Networkin the FileCat repository, the "FileCat Network" group). - Songs, Artists, Albums: tags are read with AVFoundation. Artist tags are split into every credited artist ("A feat. B", "A & B", "A, B"), so a song shows under each of them.
- Playlists: create, rename, reorder, delete; saved as JSON in Application Support.
- Hi-res playback: WAV, FLAC and ALAC (and MP3/AAC) through AVAudioEngine. Before each song the audio session asks the output for the file's own sample rate, so a USB DAC runs at 44.1 to 192 kHz without resampling; Settings › Hi-Res Audio shows the file's format and whether the output matches it. At the end of Settings is the same long cat as in FileCat, which meows when you pull hard past the end.
MusiCat builds against code in the FileCat repository
(Packages/FileCatKit and FileCat/FileCat/Network), so clone it inside a FileCat checkout:
git clone https://github.com/Lopicl/FileCat.git
git clone https://github.com/Lopicl/MusiCat.git FileCat/MusiCat
Then open FileCat/MusiCat/MusiCat.xcodeproj. The icon is drawn by Tools/make-musicat-icon.swift
in the FileCat repository.