furumi
Your music. Your devices. Your network.
Furumi is a federated P2P player for your personal music library. Every running player is a complete, self-sufficient music library: it can import, organize, search, and play your collection without an account, a cloud backend, or a central service.
Connect Furumi on your desktop, laptop, or another device and they become one personal music network. Playback, likes, playlists, and library state can move between your devices, while missing tracks can be requested directly from another player.
Furumi runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Why Furumi?
Music you own should not disappear because a subscription ended, a catalog changed, a service was censored, or a server went offline.
Furumi is built around a different model:
- your library remains under your control;
- every player works independently;
- there is no central account or single point of failure;
- connecting more players improves availability instead of creating a new dependency;
- federation is optional and simple to configure.
A single Furumi instance is already useful. A group of instances becomes a resilient network for your music.
How it works
Each player maintains its own local library and publishes a searchable view of it into Furumi's DHT network. Discovery does not depend on a central index.
Clients connect directly over P2P transport built on iroh. Furumi adds a synchronization protocol on top of that transport to keep trusted devices consistent even when they are not always online.
In practice:
- Import music into any Furumi player.
- Pair your other players or join a federation network.
- Devices discover available libraries through the DHT.
- Likes, playlists, playback state, and library metadata synchronize between trusted clients.
- If a track is missing locally, Furumi can fetch it directly from another client.
There is no coordination server in the middle. Local players remain usable when peers are offline, and the network becomes more capable as peers appear.
The player
Furumi includes a full-featured terminal interface for browsing artists and releases, searching, managing playlists and the queue, controlling playback, inspecting connected devices, and configuring federation.
The interface supports keyboard-driven navigation, multi-key combinations, context-aware bindings, and user-defined rebinding through TOML. Built-in audio visualizations, OS media controls, gapless queue playback, and local library management are included. Visualizations are runtime-loadable Rhai scripts executed in a resource-limited sandbox, so they can be added or edited without rebuilding the player.
Install
macOS
On Apple Silicon Macs, install Furumi from the Homebrew tap:
brew install house-of-vanity/tap/furumi
Run it with:
furumi
Linux, Windows, and other platforms
Download a prebuilt archive from the GitHub releases, or build Furumi from source with Rust 1.97 or newer:
cargo build --release --locked
./target/release/furumi
On Debian or Ubuntu, install the Linux audio build dependencies first:
sudo apt install libasound2-dev pkg-config
Equivalent ALSA development packages are required on other Linux distributions. macOS and Windows require no additional system packages.
Import a music directory from Furumi's command line:
:import /path/to/music
Federation, trusted-device pairing, and key bindings are configured directly inside the player.
Now playing in tmux
While Furumi is running, a second invocation can print a cheap, single-line playback snapshot without opening the TUI or library:
furumi --status
# ▶ Artist — Track 1:23/4:05
For example, add this to .tmux.conf:
set -g status-interval 1
set -g status-right '#(furumi --status) | %H:%M'
furumi --status-json returns the same snapshot as JSON, including playback
state, title, artist, album, position, duration, and volume. Both commands
print nothing when Furumi is stopped or no track is loaded. On Linux, Furumi
also exposes the existing MPRIS player cy.hexor.furumi, which can be queried
with tools such as playerctl.
Architecture
Furumi is a Rust application built with:
ratatuiandcrosstermfor the cross-platform TUI;rodiofor local audio playback;- SQLite for the personal library and synchronization state;
- a dedicated DHT for decentralized discovery;
- iroh-based P2P streams for client-to-client communication;
- an offline-tolerant operation log for trusted-device synchronization;
- Rhai for programmable audio visualizations.
More detail is available in ARCHITECTURE.md.
Contributing
Bug reports, design discussions, and patches are welcome. Before submitting a change, run:
cargo fmt --all -- --check
cargo check --all-targets
cargo test --all-targets
License
Furumi is released under the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2.
