Port of the week: cozy

Author: Solène

Date: 09 December 2021

Tags: portoftheweek

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Introduction

The Port of the week of this end of 2021 is Cozy a GTK audio book player. There are currently not much alternative outside of audio players if you want to listen to audio books.

Cozy project website

How to install

On OpenBSD I imported cozy in December 2021 so it will be available from OpenBSD 7.1 or now in -current, a simple "pkg_add cozy" is required to install.

On Linux, there is a flatpak package if your distribution doesn't provide a package.

Features

Cozy provides a few features making it more interesting than a regular music player:

keep track of your advancement of each book

playback speed can be changed if you want to listen faster (or slower)

automatic rewind can be configured when you resume playing, it's useful when you need to pause when disturbed and you want to resume the playback

sleep timer if you want playback to stop after some time

the UI is easy to use and nice

can make local copies of audio books from remote sources

Screenshot of Cozy ready to play an audio book