What is remoplayer?

RemoPlayer is a desktop app for Windows that combines two things people often want separately: listening to internet radio stations and playing music files stored on your own computer. It uses the VLC playback engine under the hood, so it can play nearly any common audio format without extra setup. For radio, you can listen to dozens of built in online stations or add your own by entering a stream address. For local music, it plays mp3, wav, flac, and ogg files from any folder, showing the album cover, artist, and album name automatically, along with a progress bar for jumping around within a track. On the Windows side, RemoPlayer connects to the built in system media widget, so the currently playing song title, artist, and cover art show up in the same place native Windows media players appear, and the play, pause, and stop buttons, including media keys on a keyboard, work correctly. It also sends a Windows notification whenever a radio station switches to a new song, keeps a history of everything you have listened to, and can optionally launch itself automatically when Windows starts up. It supports routing audio streams through an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy if needed, and shows a live estimate of how much data you have used and how long you have been listening. Most people are expected to just download the finished RemoPlayer.exe from the releases page and run it directly, with no Python installation required. The only outside requirement is having VLC Media Player installed on the system, since that supplies the actual audio engine. Anyone who wants to run it from source instead needs Windows 10 or 11, Python 3.10 or newer, and VLC installed, then can clone the repository, install the listed dependencies, and run the main script. All settings, including saved radio stations, the music folder, proxy details, and notification preferences, are managed through an in app settings dialog and stored in a local configuration file.