audio/kew 4.3.4 NetBSD

Terminal music player with album art

System: NetBSD
Repository: pkgsrc
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-10-19
Commit: 009806589d
License: gnu-gpl-v2
Categories: audio
Package size: 477.1 KiB, 1356.4 KiB installed

Description

Kew is a command-line music player. With Kew you can: Search a music library with partial titles; creates a playlist based on a matched directory; control the player with previous, next and pause; and edit the playlist by adding and removing songs. Kew supports gapless playback (between files of the same format and type) and MP3, FLAC, MPEG-4 (AAC, M4A), OPUS, OGG and WAV audio.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 4.4.1, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

NetBSD

audio/kew

4.3.4 behind since 2026-09-22

none known

[email protected]

2026-10-19

FreeBSD

multimedia/kew by name

4.4.1 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-10-22

DragonFly

multimedia/kew by name

3.1.2 behind since 2026-07-02

none known

[email protected]

GhostBSD

multimedia/kew by name

4.3.2 behind since 2026-09-13

no data

[email protected]

Compare across BSDs

Version history 10

4.3.4 2026-10-19 009806589d
4.4.1 2026-10-13 08fc076016
4.4.0 2026-10-12 3c2f85ef6f
4.3.8 2026-09-28 9e71fec26d
4.3.6 2026-09-22 df808d4e43
4.3.4 2026-09-13 c62da8daf5
4.3.0 2026-09-01 5bcf08763f
4.2.7 2026-07-24 7ceca6eb47
4.2.6 2026-07-17 f3e764b144
4.2.2 2026-07-14 b2d268f73c

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install kew

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/audio/kew && make install clean

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository	Version
NetBSD 10.1 x86_64	4.3.4
NetBSD 10.1 aarch64	4.3.4
SmartOS / illumos x86_64	-
macOS 15 arm64	-

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["audio/kew"]
  me --> d0["audio/faad2"]
  me --> d1["audio/libopus"]
  me --> d2["audio/libvorbis"]
  me --> d3["audio/opusfile"]
  me --> d4["audio/taglib"]
  me --> d5["devel/glib2"]
  me --> d6["devel/libatomic"]
  me --> d7["graphics/chafa"]
  me -.-> dmore(["3 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Run dependencies 11

No port depends on this one.

Commit history 18

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-10-19 009806589d ktnb kew: added temp dist dir to fix mismatched checksum

2026-10-19 bd6d2958ba ktnb kew: fixed distinfo

2026-10-13

08fc076016

ktnb

kew: update to 4.4.1

Fixed a bug for termux

2026-10-12

3c2f85ef6f

ktnb

kew: update to 4.4.0

Enhancements: - MP4 support, including fragmented mp4's - Spanish translation - Russian translation - Add xesam:url to MPRIS metadata - Add trackslist support to MPRIS - Flatpak package - Add ability to seek while playback is paused - Don't re-create device on song switching when the format is the same - Prettier landscape mode when there's no cover (cover area disappears) Bug Fixes: - Fix when clicking in the playlist view, the selection bar can go to the bottom of the playlist - Fix scrollbar unresponsive on very large terminal sizes - Fix library view position jumping, when expanding a folder, then scrolling down with the scrollbar, then expanding another one - Fixes several smaller issues with MPRIS implementation - Fixes issue with unicode string length of folders in library …

2026-09-29 7b5a3977f9 wiz *: recursive bump for pcre2 10.49

The latest 5 of 18 in the history this site was built from.