Show HN: FFI bindings for the Rockbox DSP, metadata, and playback engine

Category: library

Tags: audio, music-player, rust, zig, rockbox, multi-room, dsp

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Rockbox Daemon reimagines the classic Rockbox audio engine as a modern background service for Linux and macOS, exposing gapless playback, DSP, and 20+ codecs through gRPC, GraphQL, HTTP, and MPD APIs. It innovatively combines Rockbox's C core with Rust and Zig, adds multi-room audio output via AirPlay, Snapcast, and Squeezelite, and provides a rich ecosystem of clients from web to terminal.

Target audience: backend devs, audio enthusiasts, music lovers

Repository: https://github.com/tsirysndr/rockboxd/tree/master/bindings · C · GPL-2.0 · 280 stars

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