Violin

Violin is a cross-platform music player designed to offer a satisfying and simple user experience to everyone looking for a quick way of playing music files on any desktop device. It’s designed using Electron, and it works on all major OSes such as Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Right off the bat, it’s important to note that Violin is not a top-notch, uber-comprehensive audio player. However, just like most simple apps, what it lacks in features, it more than makes up for in ease of use.

Violet provides its users with a simple way of listening to music. IT has a modern, blue-themed GUI with a main playlist panel, and two toolbars (one at the top of the main window, and one at the bottom). From the upper toolbar, users can open folders and load songs, as well as search for individual songs.

The app’s playlist section displays the song name, the album, and the artist. The bottom toolbar is a bit more complex, as it displays the song’s art thumbnail. It’s also the place that provides users with various control elements. Users can skip songs (in either direction), play and pause the song, as well as shuffle the playlist, or put songs on repeat. There’s also a minimalist volume controller on the bottom-right part of the main window.

Even though it’s not impressive in terms of features, Violin does come with support for media keys which means that users with keyboards that have said keys can leave Violin running in the background and benefit from a better all-round experience.

Violin is nothing more than it shows. It’s a humdrum audio player that’s designed with simplicity in mind and that looks rather good on modern OSes.