Q&A

Q: What audio engine does this app use?

It uses its own audio playback with miniaudio for output.

Q: Are there downloads for Windows?

Yes, but builds may lag behind the latest release. See the Releases page.

Q: Can this application handle large music collections?

Tauon Music Box is intended to work well with medium to large music libraries. However, if you have a huge number of tracks, you may notice longer load times and degraded UI performance in some elements such as search.

There's no hard limit to the number of tracks you can import, but to give a ballpark number, it should handle at least up to ~50k tracks comfortably.

Q: What toolkit is this program using?

It's using a custom GPU accelerated UI written in Python built upon SDL2 with dependency on Cairo.

Q: What is the license?

Its GPLv3+ licensed. If you like this app, make sure to give it a star here on Github!

Q: Amazing. Are there any reasons I wouldn't want to use this player?

Maybe? Here are some reasons I can think of.

• You want a player that organises your music primarily on a library based paradigm. Tauon Music Box is playlist based.
• You want an app that matches the visual style of your desktop environment. Tauon Music Box uses a custom user interface.
• You want a player that handles importing millions of tracks.
• You want a player that's ultra stable. Tauon can crash, maybe.

Q: Can I load music from network folders?

On Linux if you can mount the folder you can access it like any other filesystem. Network folders aren't supported on Windows.

This isn't necessarily the ideal way of doing it however. Better to run a music network server designed specifically for music.

Q: I'm thinking of setting up a music server, which one is best, Plex? Airsonic? Jellyfin?

Tauon currently has most feature completeness with Jellyfin.

Q: Are any other platforms supported?

There are provisions for running on BSD and macOS, but no official packages are provided for these platforms.