Voxity
Status: FINISHED (v100)Inception: July 2025
Language: JavaScript
Voxity (prev. Audion and Music player) is a semi-advanced PWA local music file player. It has a few cool things, like automatic accent color detecting, timed and interactive lyrics, variable visualizers, a lot of settings, and an abundance of clickable things.
features
- Online lyric searching and displaying, with click-to-jump lines from LRCLIB or Musixmatch (experimental)
- LRCLIB is configurable: you can query by Strict (artist, title, album, duration) or Lax (artist and title)
- A queue with an intelligent shuffle system and drag-to-reorder
- Metadata parsing and displaying, courtesy of jsmediatags
- 10+ themes
- 3 responsive visualizers with variable FPS
- Many many hotkeys (see hotkeys or the hotkeys button in the app)
- Integration with the Media Session API
- Supports WebVTT, SubRip, and LRC as lyrics (just drag the file in)
- A basic sleep timer
- Sound effects for finished queue, error, welcome, and more
- System notifications when a new song begins (requires permission)
- Precise input modals that can be opened by clicking the corresponding slider's label, for example, clicking the "Volume" label opens a modal where you can type in the exact volume you want instead of dragging the slider
- Click to copy metadata fields, for example, clicking the artist name copies it to your clipboard
- Variable accent color which applies to the entire UI and visualizer
- Automatic accent color generation based on album art
- A settings area with many options, with more to come
- A lyrics browser and editor
- A rotating tab title which shows various information about the current song in the tab name to avoid clutter/truncation
- An error/success toast system in the bottom right corner with an intuitive timer and pause-on-hover
- Levenshtein-distance inspired searching function for the queue (CTRL+F, the dedicated button, or middle-click the queue header)
- Sliders support mouse wheel scrolling
- Wake lock holder
- Clicking the duration in the scrubber toggles between elapsed and remaining time
- A two level cover art viewer: clicking the cover art opens a larger view, and clicking that opens the full-size image in a new tab
- A modular, explorable and breakable codebase, creating "plugins" or browser extensions (etc) should be fairly easy (allegedly)
- Works offline after the first load with a respectful update strategy; when a new update is available, it asks if you want to update, and if you say no, nothing happens
- A linear text scrolling animation system for very long text (scrolls, retracts, pauses, repeat)
and more!
hotkeys
| Key | Action | Details / modifiers |
|---|---|---|
Space or K | Play / pause | |
Escape | Close modal | closest open modal, stacks |
R | Restart track | from 0 |
Ctrl + F | Open queue search | |
T | Toggle loop | |
H | Toggle shuffle | |
Z | Previous track | |
X | Next track | |
← J A | Scrub backward | default: -10s Alt: -30s Shift: -1s Ctrl: -5s |
→ L D | Scrub forward | same as above, only + |
↑ W | Volume up | +1% |
↓ S | Volume down | -1% |
0 to 9 | Jump to percentage | 0 = 0%, 1 = 10%, ..., 9 = 90%Shift = half-jump; so Shift + 1 = 5% |
ascendants
Voxity was birthed in July 2025 after combining these three projects:
Basic player
A basic video/audio player with the same ethos as Voxity; the speed-volume-scrub sliders and controls. player.exerinity.com - github
Visualizer
A... visualizer. visualizer.exerinity.com
Doom/Incompetech player
A concept of a song picker and player, two variants for DOOM and Incompetech (Kevin MacLeod). exerinity.com/doom/ost and demo.player.exerinity.com
Inspirations where credit is due
- Windows Media Player for the rotating tab title logic, in the mini player
- Winamp for the status bar system
- VLC media player for the notifications (...kinda)
- foobar2000 for the tagline "plays music." (it is a carbon copy from its buttons) and other minor things here and there