README.md

Important

After a long period, we're excited to say that Rise Media Player is back! The app is currently undergoing major changes and while contributions are welcome please be aware of merge conflicts.

Note

The app can only be installed from the store if you are an Insider. To become an insider, click here.

Introducing Rise Media Player, a powerful music platform that brings your media to a whole new level. If it's videos, music, discs or even your favourite streaming services - you're sure to love our player: with stunning design and an amazing storage layer that gives you the freedom of having one library for all of your content, combined with almost infinite customisability with settings that are second to none. Stream, browse and explore - RiseMP can do it all.

Created with WinUI and the latest design ideologies, Rise Media Player is modern while keeping all of the classic features people need. We use WinUI 2.8 Preview to keep our user interface, clean, modern and consistent with Windows 11 UI and UX - although, the app does work on Windows 10 too! Our own controls and icons give users a truly personalised experience, being able to choose their own icon packs and with features like compact mode, you can use it on any Windows device!

Features

• Music and video playback: Play music and videos from any source across your device and the internet in high quality
• Sorting for songs, albums and videos: Sort and find any track
• Now Playing bar: Stunningly designed "now playing" experience
• Fullscreen music experience: Comes complete with a beautiful fullscreen listening interface
• last.fm integration: Find your favourite tracks from last.fm in Rise
• Internet based artist images: Carefully curated artist images
• Playlists: Sort all your music into playlists
• Modern Settings UI: Customise your experience in RiseMP with themes, change the layout and modify your connected services
• OneDrive support: Browse music from your favourite cloud provider
• Properties window: View metadata attached to your songs
• Colourful icons setting: Customise your experience with icons with a Windows 11 style
• Casting to devices, repeat, shuffle: Cast music with ease anywhere in your home
• Insider exclusives: Exclusive wallpapers and feature sneak peeks for those enlisted in the programme
• Pick up where you left off support: Support for history and remembering exactly where you were when you last opened the app

Downloads

If you are an Insider already, just click the Download button and you'll be taken to a page to download 😁 In order to learn how to build RiseMP from source, check out the documentation.

Building from source

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2022 with the following individual components:
  • Windows SDK
  • Windows app development workload
• Git for Windows

git clone https://github.com/Rise-Software/Rise-Media-Player.git

Prepare credentials

Create a file called LastFM.cs in Rise.Common.Constants, and paste the following contents:

namespace Rise.Common.Constants
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Contains last.fm related constants.
    /// </summary>
    public class LastFM
    {
        public const string Key = "YourAPIKey";
        public const string Secret = "YourSecret";

        public const string VaultResource = "RiseMP - LastFM account";
    }
}

This will be enough to build the app, but if you want last.fm support, you should get a last.fm API key. After doing this, replace the value of the Key and Secret constants with your own API key and secret key respectively. After doing this, last.fm functionality should be enabled.

Build the project

To build Rise Media Player for development, open the RiseMP.sln item in Visual Studio. Right-click on the Rise.App packaging project in solution explorer and select ‘Set as Startup item’. Then press F5 or your selected build & deploy keybind to build the app and launch it.

Contributing

Want to contribute to this project? Let us know with an issue that communicates your intent to create a pull request.

Note

Looking for a place to start? Check out our plan for Beta 1, which details planned features and changes..

Credits

• Joseph Beattie (@josephbeattie): Started work on Rise Media Player
• Omar Salas (@YourOrdinaryCat):
• SimpleBear (@itsWindows11):

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