YM Pro

Bit-Perfect Audiophile Music Player for macOS

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YM Pro is a native macOS music player meticulously engineered for audiophiles. It bypasses the macOS system mixer entirely, taking exclusive hardware-level control of your DAC to deliver true bit-perfect playback — pure, untouched, exactly as the artist intended.

If you own high-resolution FLAC files and a premium external DAC, standard players silently resample your audio in the background. YM Pro doesn't.

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✨ Features

Feature	Description
Bit-Perfect CoreAudio HAL	Custom C++ engine talks directly to your audio hardware, completely bypassing the macOS system mixer.
Exclusive Hog Mode	Locks your DAC so no system alerts or other apps can interfere with your listening session.
Dynamic Sample Rate Switching	Automatically changes your hardware's sample rate on-the-fly to match each track (44.1kHz → 96kHz → 192kHz).
Native FLAC Decoding	High-performance C++ decoder with gapless, zero-latency playback on a dedicated background thread.
Hi-Res Badges	Automatically detects and displays bit-depth/sample-rate info with dynamic Hi-Res Audio badges.
Glassmorphism UI	Stunning dark interface built 100% in SwiftUI with ambient gradients, blur effects, and smooth animations.
Folder Hierarchy Browser	Navigate your music library exactly as it's organized on disk — no forced "Album/Artist" view.
Playlists	Create, manage, and drag-and-drop tracks into custom playlists.
Instant Search	Full-text search powered by SQLite FTS5 across titles, artists, albums, and file paths.
Touch Bar & Media Keys	Full playback control from your keyboard and MacBook Touch Bar with live track info.
macOS Widget	Now Playing widget for your desktop via WidgetKit.
Intro Splash	Premium animated logo intro on app launch.

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🏗️ Architecture

graph TD
    subgraph UI["SwiftUI Layer — macOS 13+"]
        CV["ContentView"]
        NPB["NowPlayingBar"]
        FSP["FullScreenPlayer"]
        HV["HomeView · LibraryView · ArtistsView"]
    end

    subgraph VM["ViewModel Layer"]
        PVM["PlaybackViewModel — Queue · Shuffle · Repeat · Gapless"]
        LVM["LibraryViewModel"]
        SVM["SearchViewModel"]
    end

    subgraph Engine["Playback Engine — Swift + C++"]
        HAL["CoreAudioHALEngine — Hog Mode · Sample Rate · Exclusive Access"]
        DEC["AVDecoderWorker C++ — libFLAC Decoder · Background Thread"]
    end

    subgraph Data["Data Layer"]
        MB["MetadataBridge C++ TagLib — Artwork · ID3v2 · Vorbis Comments"]
        DB["GRDB SQLite + FTS5 — Library · Playlists · Play Counts"]
    end

    subgraph HW["Hardware"]
        DAC["macOS CoreAudio HAL — Your DAC or Speakers"]
    end

    UI --> VM
    PVM --> HAL
    HAL --> DEC
    DEC --> DAC
    LVM --> DB
    LVM --> MB
    SVM --> DB
    PVM -.->|Track Metadata| DB

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Key layers:

• UI Layer — SwiftUI with NavigationSplitView, custom glassmorphism, and NSVisualEffectView bridges.
• Playback Engine — A Swift CoreAudioHALEngine class that configures AudioDeviceID, sets the hardware sample rate, acquires Hog Mode, and feeds PCM buffers via an IOProc callback.
• Decoder — A C++ AVDecoderWorker using libFLAC to decode FLAC frames on a background thread, piping interleaved PCM into a lock-free ring buffer.
• Metadata — A C++ MetadataBridge using TagLib to extract Vorbis Comments, ID3v2 tags, embedded artwork (FLAC Picture blocks, APIC frames, MP4 cover art).
• Database — GRDB (SQLite) with FTS5 full-text search, batch upserts, and play count tracking.

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📦 Prerequisites

Requirement	Version
macOS	13.0 (Ventura) or later
Xcode	16.0 or later
Homebrew	Latest
Apple Silicon	Required (arm64)

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🚀 Build from Source

# 1. Install dependencies
brew install xcodegen flac taglib

# 2. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yoneshmurugan/Player.git
cd Player

# 3. Generate the Xcode project
xcodegen generate

# 4. Open in Xcode
open "YM Pro.xcodeproj"

Select My Mac as the destination and hit ⌘R to build and run.

Note: The FLAC and TagLib libraries are linked from /opt/homebrew/lib. If you installed Homebrew to a non-default location, update the HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS and LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATHS in project.yml.

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🎧 Usage

1. Launch YM Pro.
2. Open Settings (gear icon in the sidebar).
3. Click the folder icon and select the directory containing your audio files (.flac, .mp3, .m4a, .wav, .aiff).
4. Your library is instantly scanned — browse by Albums, Artists, Tracks, or Folder Hierarchy.
5. Toggle Bit-Perfect Mode in Settings to enable exclusive DAC access and hardware sample rate switching.

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🗂️ Project Structure

Player/
├── project.yml                 # XcodeGen project definition
├── ytsplayer/
│   ├── App/                    # App entry point, bridging header, Info.plist
│   ├── Assets/                 # Intro video, Hi-Res badge
│   ├── Assets.xcassets/        # App icon, logo
│   ├── Engine/                 # CoreAudioHALEngine, AVDecoderWorker (C++), MetadataBridge (C++)
│   ├── Model/                  # Track, Album data models
│   ├── Utilities/              # ImageLoader, helpers
│   ├── ViewModel/              # PlaybackViewModel, LibraryViewModel, SearchViewModel
│   └── Views/                  # All SwiftUI views
├── ytsplayerWidget/            # macOS WidgetKit extension
├── ytsplayerTests/             # Unit tests
└── GRDB/                       # Local GRDB SQLite package

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🤝 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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_{Built with ❤️ by Yonesh}