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🎵 Rok

Rok is a modern music player for Windows, built with the latest Microsoft technologies.

📖 About

Rok is a Windows desktop application for managing and playing your local music collection. Developed with .NET 10 and WinUI 3, it offers a fluid and modern interface that seamlessly integrates with Windows 11.

✨ Features

• 🎵 Audio Playback — NAudio-powered engine with queue management, gapless playback, crossfade, ReplayGain, a sleep timer, output device selection and bit-perfect WASAPI exclusive mode
• 📚 Library Management — Browse by albums, artists, genres, and playlists
• 🧠 Smart Playlists — Dynamic playlists built from rules
• 🔍 Search — Quick search across your entire collection
• ✏️ Metadata Editing — Modify tags, covers, and track information
• 🖼️ Automatic Enrichment — Fetch album covers, artist photos, and backdrops from the RoK Music API
• 🎤 Lyrics — Display song lyrics, with optional translation
• 📻 Internet Radio — Stream stations via Radio Browser
• 📊 Insights — Statistics and analytics about your listening
• 🕒 Listening History — Track what you play over time
• 🎮 Discord Integration — Show your current listening activity on Discord
• 🎛️ Windows Media Controls — System Media Transport Controls (SMTC) integration
• 🖼️ Taskbar thumbnail controls — Previous / Play-Pause / Next buttons on the taskbar thumbnail
• 🔗 Last.fm Links — Quick access to artist and album pages
• 🌓 Themes — Light and dark mode support
• 🎯 Compact Mode — Minimal player view

📸 Screenshots

🛠️ Technologies

Tech Stack

• .NET 10.0 — Modern and performant framework
• C# 13 — Latest language features (LangVersion=preview)
• WinUI 3 / Windows App SDK 2.2 — Native Windows UI framework and platform APIs
• NAudio — Audio playback engine
• SoundTouch.Net — Tempo stretching for Mix mode (LGPL-2.1)
• SQLite + Dapper — Local database and high-performance micro-ORM
• TagLibSharp — Audio metadata reading/writing
• CleanArch.DevKit.Mediator — Source-generated mediator (CQRS, validation, Result pattern, messaging)
• CommunityToolkit.Mvvm — Source-generated MVVM (observable objects and commands)
• Serilog — Structured logging
• DiscordRichPresence — Discord Rich Presence

Architecture

The project follows Clean Architecture principles, with a strict dependency direction Presentation → Application → Domain. Infrastructure and Import are plugged in at the edges — inner layers never reference outer ones.

src/
  Rok.Domain/           Entities, enums, repository interfaces. Zero dependencies.
  Rok.Shared/           Cross-cutting helpers (collections, extensions, validation).
  Rok.Application/      Use cases (CQRS via CleanArch.DevKit.Mediator), application
                        services (PlayerService, PlaylistService…), DTOs, decoupled messages.
  Rok.Infrastructure/   Dapper + SQLite repositories, schema migrations, TagLibSharp tag IO,
                        NAudio playback engine, HTTP clients (Last.fm, RoK Music, Translate,
                        Radio Browser), Discord rich presence, telemetry, Serilog.
  Rok.Import/           Library scan + import pipeline, running on a thread pool to keep
                        the UI responsive.
  Presentation/ (Rok)   WinUI 3 head: Pages, ViewModels, Dialogs, Converters, Services.

Layers and Responsibilities

🎨 Presentation

• WinUI 3 user interface with XAML
• ViewModels implementing the MVVM pattern (CommunityToolkit.Mvvm)
• Two-way data binding and page navigation
• Theme and style management

💼 Application (Rok.Application)

• Business use cases (CQRS requests and handlers)
• Application logic orchestration
• DTOs for data transfer
• Decoupled messaging between components
• Service interfaces

🏛️ Domain (Rok.Domain)

• Business entities (Album, Artist, Track, Playlist, Genre)
• Business rules and validations
• Repository interfaces
• Infrastructure-independent domain model

📦 Infrastructure (Rok.Infrastructure)

• Repository implementation with Dapper over SQLite
• Schema migrations
• Metadata reading/writing with TagLibSharp
• NAudio playback engine
• HTTP clients, Discord integration, telemetry, and Serilog logging

📥 Import (Rok.Import)

• Library scanning and the album/artist/genre/track import pipeline

Design Patterns:

• MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) — UI/logic separation
• CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) — Read/write separation
• Mediator Pattern — Decoupled component communication
• Repository Pattern — Data access abstraction
• Dependency Injection — Inversion of control with Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection
• Result Pattern — Explicit success/failure handling without exceptions

📋 Requirements

• Windows 10 version 1809 (build 17763) or higher
• Windows 11 recommended for optimal experience

📧 Contact

Mickaël François - @mickaelfrancois

⭐ If you like this project, feel free to give it a star on GitHub!

License

Copyright (C) 2026 Mickaël FRANCOIS

Rok is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Rok is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.