Forward

The universal music player.

Rationale

Coming soon...

Forward is highly inspired by the Meta music tag editor and Doppler music player.

Use

Note

Forward is in development and has limited feature support. Audio playback, for example, is currently unavailable (you can browse metadata, however).

Important

Forward has not been notarized by Apple. To run the app, open the app and follow these instructions.

You can either download a release of the app from the Releases page or build the project from source in Xcode.

macOS Sequoia (15) or later is required.

Install

The first time you build the project (as well as make changes to configuration, like building for release), it will take a significant amount of time to complete.¹ This is due to the project depending on FFmpeg and libopus. Subsequent builds should perform much better.

1. Clone the Git repository (e.g. git clone https://github.com/kyleerhabor/forward Forward)
2. Open the Xcode project (e.g. open Forward/Forward.xcodeproj)
3. Select Product > Archive to build the project for release
4. From the Organizer, select Distribute App > Custom > Copy App to export the app
5. Open the app

Screenshots

Future & Lil Uzi Vert — Pluto x Baby Pluto

Footnotes

1. An initial build on my 2019 MacBook Pro takes ~5 minutes to complete. ↩