Choonio

Project Summary

Open Source Desktop audio player using vlcj, an homage to Google Play Music.

Web
Java
Spring Boot
WebFlux
ReactJS
Typescript
Material-UI
MongoDB
Open Source

Licensing

AGPL 3.0

Gallery

The main home page for Choonio, showing favourites, recently played media, playlists, and recommendations.

The full media library, all artists are shown here.

The recently played media is shown here. The display can be configured by date, period, type, and name.

The user's favourite artist, albums, tracks and playlists are shown here. The display can be configured by date, type and name.

The user's custom playlists are shown here. The display can be configured by playlist duration, name, created or modified time.

An album detail page. The currently playing track, if from this album, is shown. Also shown are track listen counts and user ratings.

Clicking the cover art shows an enlarged view.

A playlist detail page. The currently playing track, if from this playlist, is shown. Also shown are track listen counts and user ratings.

The current play queue. The currently playing track is shown, as are listens counts and user ratings.

Various chart configurations are possible, top 10, 20, 50, 100 then artist, album or track, and finally by a particular period (e.g. today, last seven days, and so on).

A search bar is provided to find artists, albums, tracks, and playlists. Media can be played directly from these results, or hitting Enter will return full results.

Search results, showing the artists, playlists, albums and tracks that match the search query.

Introduction

Choonio is a new Open Source project that proivdes a desktop audio player application in the spirit of the now-cancelled Google Play Music service.

Choonio is a desktop media player for local audio files, it is not a streaming server - although with some changes it could possibly become that.

It uses LibVLC and vlcj for media playback.

Why?

Google Play Music was a great streaming service that had a very nice and easy to use web-based user interface.

After Google shut down the service, this project was created to preserve that experience, or at least something very close to it.

Technologies

Another reason for creating this project was to demonstrate competencies in modern web-development technologies.

This project has two main parts: a backend API and media player, and; a front-end web-based user interface.

The major technologies used (always the up-to-date versions) are:

Java
Spring Boot
Spring WebFlux
Reactor
Jetty
MongoDB
React
React Query
Material UI
Typescript
Docker

Essentially, there is a front-end application developed with React that interacts with a backend database and media player accessed via a web-service API implemented with Spring Boot.

What is the license?

Choonio is distributed according to the terms of the AGPL license.