#1149121 ITP: argos -- Front-end for Mopidy music server

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2026-09-26 23:03:03 UTC
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* Package name    : argos
  Version         : 1.19.2
  Upstream Contact: Matthias Meulien <orontee@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/orontee/argos
* License         : GPL-3+
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Front-end for Mopidy music server

lightweight GTK client for the Mopidy music server

Argos is a graphical front-end for Mopidy, an extensible music server. 

Key features are:

 * playback state and tracklist view
 * volume control (depending on the mixer configuration of the server)
 * library browser
 * viewing and editing of playlists exposed by Mopidy-M3U
 * playing any stream supported by Mopidy-Stream
 * abstracts of album and artist pages from Wikipedia (based on
   MusicBrainz identifiers)

It targets both the GNOME desktop and single-board computers with a
small touchscreen.

Mopidy is already packaged in Debian, but there is currently no native
graphical client; users must rely on MPDclients through Mopid-MPD
or web interfaces. Argos is also available on Flathub, but Flatpak
does not support armhf, which is a common architecture for the
Raspberry Pi devices often used to run Mopidy.

It's a mature and actively maintained. The application is known
in the community of Mopidy users. I am its upstream author and
use it daily. It is not a dependency of other packages.

I plan to maintain it within the Debian Python Team. The packaging is
available at https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/argos.
I am looking for a sponsor.