Port details
kew Command-line music player with the terminal user interface (TUI)
4.4.1 multimedia Σ =1 4.3.6Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. Maintainer: yuri@FreeBSD.org Port Added: 2024-02-02 21:27:05
Last Update: 2026-10-22 07:52:13
Commit Hash: d7e81fe
People watching this port, also watch: w3m , keychain , drm-kmod , ffmpeg , meld License: GPLv2
WWW: https://github.com/ravachol/kew Description: # kew is a command-line music player.
Features:
* Search a music library with partial titles.
* Creates a playlist based on a matched directory.
* Control the player with previous, next and pause.
* Edit the playlist by adding and removing songs.
* Supports gapless playback (between files of the same format and type).
* Supports MP3, FLAC, MPEG-4 (AAC, M4A, MP4), OPUS, OGG and WAV audio.
* Private, no data is collected by kew. ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦
Manual pages: #
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist # USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines :
To install the port : # cd /usr/ports/multimedia/kew/ && make install clean To add the package , run one of these commands: pkg install multimedia/kew pkg install kew NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.PKGNAME: kew Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port. # distinfo: # TIMESTAMP = 1792652632
SHA256 (ravachol-kew-v4.4.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 944058049cf7b4c0a40358f5e41b07be062df8a775747a0698cb42629734f846
SIZE (ravachol-kew-v4.4.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 1450727
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC): #
Dependencies # NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered. Build dependencies: #
update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils gettext-runtime>=0.26 : devel/gettext-runtime gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
Runtime dependencies: #
update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
Library dependencies: #
libchafa.so : graphics/chafa libcurl.so : ftp/curl libfaad.so : audio/faad libfftw3f.so : math/fftw3-float libogg.so : audio/libogg libopus.so : audio/opus libopusfile.so : audio/opusfile libtag.so : audio/taglib libvorbis.so : audio/libvorbis libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20 libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
There are no ports dependent upon this port #
Configuration Options : #
No options to configure Options name : #
multimedia_kew USES: #
desktop-file-utils gettext-runtime gmake gnome pkgconfig
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message # Master Sites: #
Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
Commit Credits Log message
4.4.1 22 Oct 2026 07:52:13
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 4.3.8 → 4.4.1
4.3.8 11 Oct 2026 07:45:02
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 4.3.6 → 4.3.8
4.3.6 22 Sep 2026 22:56:16
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 4.3.2 → 4.3.6
4.3.2 06 Sep 2026 06:18:30
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 4.2.7 → 4.3.2
4.2.7 20 Jul 2026 01:48:18
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 4.2.3 → 4.2.7
4.2.3 15 Jul 2026 07:47:32
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 4.2.2 → 4.2.3
4.2.2 14 Jul 2026 07:00:26
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 4.1.8 → 4.2.2
4.1.8 09 Jul 2026 07:06:21
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 4.1.7 → 4.1.8
4.1.7 03 Jul 2026 06:31:10
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 4.1.4 → 4.1.7
4.1.4 02 Jul 2026 09:31:53
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 4.1.2 → 4.1.4
4.1.2 30 Jun 2026 07:12:16
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 4.0.0 → 4.1.2
4.0.0 30 Apr 2026 08:41:20
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 3.7.3 → 4.0.0
3.7.3 18 Apr 2026 03:07:02
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 3.6.4 → 3.7.3
3.6.4 05 Dec 2025 18:45:54
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: Not broken on i386
3.6.4 28 Oct 2025 15:33:46
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 3.4.1 → 3.6.4
3.4.1_1 31 Aug 2025 10:30:51
Rene Ladan (rene)
all: bump PORTREVISION after updating graphics/libyuv
Using the Tools/scripts/bump_revision.pl script
3.4.1 20 Aug 2025 06:46:22
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 3.4.0 → 3.4.1
Reported by: portscout
3.4.0 11 Jul 2025 06:54:48
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 3.3.3 → 3.4.0
Reported by: portscout
3.3.3 31 May 2025 02:06:12
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 3.3.2 → 3.3.3
Reported by: portscout
3.3.2 16 May 2025 06:30:35
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 3.2.0 → 3.3.2
Reported by: portscout
3.2.0 24 Apr 2025 07:33:40
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 3.1.2 → 3.2.0
Reported by: portscout
3.1.2 23 Mar 2025 21:42:23
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 3.0.3 → 3.1.2
3.0.3 19 Jan 2025 03:53:12
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 3.0.2 → 3.0.3
3.0.2 13 Dec 2024 11:28:47
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 3.0.1 → 3.0.2
3.0.1 06 Dec 2024 03:44:23
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: Add comment in patch
3.0.1 06 Dec 2024 02:11:38
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 3.0.0 → 3.0.1
3.0.0_1 25 Oct 2024 10:15:35
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: Update dependencies
3.0.0 25 Oct 2024 03:27:35
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 2.8.2 → 3.0.0
2.8.2 22 Sep 2024 19:29:55
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 2.7.2 → 2.8.2
2.7.2 04 Sep 2024 22:11:17
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: Update COMMENT and pkg-descr
2.7.2 04 Sep 2024 08:08:11
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 2.7.0 → 2.7.2
2.7.0 26 Aug 2024 08:20:19
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 2.6.0 → 2.7.0
Reported by: portscout
2.6.0 04 Jul 2024 16:18:43
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 2.5.1 → 2.6.0
2.5.1 04 Jul 2024 01:18:07
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 2.5.0 → 2.5.1
Reported by: portscout
2.5.0 17 Jun 2024 08:18:34
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 2.4.4 → 2.5.0
Reported by: portscout
2.4.4 03 Apr 2024 09:51:19
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 2.4.3 → 2.4.4
Reported by: portscout
2.4.3 10 Mar 2024 07:35:54
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 2.4.2 → 2.4.3
Reported by: portscout
2.4.2 06 Mar 2024 08:35:23
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 2.4 → 2.4.2
Reported by: portscout
2.4 18 Feb 2024 10:07:53
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 2.3.1 → 2.4
Reported by: portscout
2.3.1 13 Feb 2024 07:50:53
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 2.3 → 2.3.1
Reported by: portscout
2.3 12 Feb 2024 07:56:27
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: update 2.2-2 → 2.3
Reported by: portscout
2.2.2 04 Feb 2024 08:59:21
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: Broken on i386
Reported by: fallout
2.2.2 02 Feb 2024 14:58:57
Yuri Victorovich (yuri)
multimedia/kew: New port: Command-line music player