System Integration

What Namida can do outside of its own window.
For Tasker, scripts and scrobblers, see 🎉 Automation & Other Apps ↗.

Open With & Share

Any app that can “open” or “share” something can hand it to Namida:

On Android this covers the share sheet, “Open with” and NFC tags carrying a YouTube link, and Namida can be set as your default music player.

On desktop the same works through file associations, drag & drop onto the window and the command line (namida <files, folders or links>). If Namida is already open, the existing window plays them.

Voice assistants can open Namida and use the media controls below, but a spoken “play some artist” search is not handled yet, Namida just opens.

Media Controls

Namida shows standard media controls wherever the system offers them:

  • Notification and lock screen, with play, pause, next, previous, seek and favourite (or like, for YouTube). ⚙️ Configure Display Favourite Button in Notification ↗
  • Headset and Bluetooth buttons.
  • Android Auto and Wear OS, where Namida shows up as a media app with the current queue to play from (repeat and shuffle included).
  • Windows media keys and the media flyout (with a timeline).
  • Linux desktop media widgets and shell extensions, through MPRIS.

Other apps can read and control the same session too. 🎉 Automation & Other Apps ↗

Quick Settings Tile

💻 Android only

Add the Namida tile to your quick settings panel to play and pause without opening anything. The tile shows the current state, so you can tell at a glance if something is playing.

There is also a “Namida Shuffle” tile, it toggles shuffle and shows whether it’s on. 🆕 v7.4.0 🎉 Queue System ↗

Home Screen Widget

💻 Android only

A resizable player widget with its own settings screen, see the 🎉 Home Screen Widget feature ↗.

System Tray

💻 Windows+Linux only

Namida lives in the system tray while it runs. Click the icon to hide or show the window, right click it for a small menu with the current track, previous, play/pause, next, favourite, open, mini lyrics window and exit.

Closing the window minimizes to the tray instead of quitting, unless you tell it otherwise. ⚙️ Configure Kill Player After Dismissing App ↗

Mini Lyrics Window

🆕 v7.0.0 💻 Windows+Linux only

A small window showing the current lyrics line (good for keeping lyrics around while you do something else). Open it from the tray menu or with Ctrl + Alt + L, press Esc or the same shortcut to go back to the normal window.

🎉 Shortcuts feature ↗

System Wide Hotkeys

💻 Windows+Linux only

Control playback even when Namida is not focused, see 🎉 Shortcuts feature ↗.

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Writer: @claude