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The apps

tie-fm, tie-audio, tie-view, imgview and tie-browser: what they share, how to connect them to a library, and where each one is different.

Quickstart

All five apps are in one repository, uidbz/tie-gui. They build with Go 1.27+ and CGO, plus the native libraries for video, audio …

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Configuration

The apps share one idea: a tie config describes the servers and the collections, and each app has a small config of its own for …

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tie-fm

A twin-panel file manager for local disks and tie collections. Panes and tabs Each pane has its own tabs, history, breadcrumb …

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tie-audio

A tag-aware music player for a tie library. Start and connect tie-audio tie-audio -config ~/.config/tie/config.toml The first run …

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tie-view

A tag-driven image viewer for a tie collection, and a good local image viewer on its own. Open a collection, a tag or a URL …

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imgview

A local image and archive viewer that needs no library. imgview # the current directory imgview ~/Pictures/2014 imgview …

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tie-browser

A scene browser and visual designer. Preview: the scene format can still change. A scene is a directory …

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Album import

tie-fm’s Import as albums… and the CLI’s tie import audio-dir --albums share the planner. The difference is the UI: …

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Quick tags

Quick tags are the pills over the edge of the image in tie-view. They are configured in quicktags.toml (Settings → Quick tags …

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What Delete means

tie-fm’s Delete is deliberately conservative. A local row Delete removes the file from the local filesystem, after the usual …

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Architecture

The five apps share more than a look. The repository is one Go module with shared packages and one cmd/ directory per app. Shared …

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