Hauenleuka

Hauenleuka v0.3 released 2025-12-16 / Download

Why?

After I upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 my previous music player (gmusicbrowser) failed to start. I was agnry enough to write my own musicplayer. It is not for everyone, there are many better player for most people, but I don’t stream and have CD’s ripped and meticulously tagged. I need a good player for local files. The status (0.2+) is so good, that I don’t personally need any other music player.

What?

In the Finnish folklore Väinämöinen made the first kantele from Hauenleuka (Pike’s Jaw). Kantele is a musical instrument, and Hauenleuka plays music.

Core Features

Note before using: “Hauenleuka” will modify files (tags)! This is a fundamental core feature.
Make backups before using.

Minimum Requirements

GPU should support OpenGLES2
OS: Linux.
Three external programs installed: ffmpeg, vorbiscomment and metaflac.

Support

Filetypes: ogg and flac.
NOT Supported: Legacy (mp3) and Exotic (sid, nfs) will not be supported

Library-database

Made with huge libraries (properly tagged) in mind, Dev-dummy-database had 10M tracks! Should be enough.
Tech: sqlite

Auto-player

Filtered by none, rating or never played.
Playlist is randomly filled based on the filter and automatically updated.

Tagging

Autotagger

On_play: Playcount=(+1) + timeplayed=(curernt_time)
Rating_standardizer. Converts (0.0-1.0; 0-255) to 0-5.
If no rating tag is present, new tag is set to 3.

Manual tagging

Single track can be modified from the playlist.
Artist can be merged to another artist. (Good for fixing typos)

Explore and enqueue tracks

Files: Browse filed in your HDD. Shortcuts can be added in user-config.
Search: Text serach based on any title, artist, album or genre -fields.
Library: Lists tracks more visually, sort via artist, album, genre or year.

Playlist support

Current playlist can be saved via the playlist-tab. Give a name and click save. Same name will overwrite the old one.
Dynamic-playlists. Two dynamic playlists are supported: top100 and history.

Eye Candy

Statistics tab. Graph of release years, top genres, top artists.
Cover art in the same directory as the tracks named: “00 – cover.jpg”

User-config

Libraries / Shortcuts to Files-tab
Colours
Enable Artist-merger

TODO:

Boot: Warning about missing requirements (now visible only in console)
User-config: Better theming (bg-image).
User-config: More user values: artist limits, stats threshold.
Auto-player: filter for above a certain value. (4+ should filter 4 & 5)

Bugs:

Metadata of the playing track gets overwritten by data of track that has been first changed via mouse and then by keyboard shortcut.
- Track A plays, User changes rating of track B with mouse, then ctrl+rating to change rating of Track A. -> Track B data is copied over Track A.
  - Solution: Do not use keyboard to change ratings IF used mouse to change other track.