Installing BassBoom on Windows!
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Before performing the installation, your Windows system must meet the following requirements:
Windows 7+
We advice you to use the terminal emulation software capable of displaying the VT sequences on systems older than Windows 10. BassBoom uses Terminaux to render its elements in the CLI music player.
There are several ways to install BassBoom on Windows systems. We recommend installing BassBoom using the Chocolatey package manager or the Windows installer for simplicity.
The Windows Installer method allows you to easily install BassBoom.
Download the latest Windows Installer EXE file from
Double-click on a single EXE file, and follow the instructions
Double-click on BassBoom in your desktop.
This step-by-step guide shows you how to install BassBoom using the package manager, , assuming that you already have it on your system.
Ensure that Chocolatey is installed to your system PATH
Open your favorite terminal emulator, like ConEmu, and execute the following command: choco install bassboom
Start BassBoom using bassboom
If you like to manually unpack the BassBoom packages, follow these steps:
Ensure that you have all the required software installed
Open your favorite terminal emulator, like ConEmu, and change the working directory to a folder containing the BassBoom executable
Execute bassboom or BassBoom.Cli.exe to start the kernel
Bleeding-edge builds usually come from building the development branch of the application, and they usually contain bugs and other untested features.
If you're a tester to such software, please follow the steps on your Windows machine. Please be sure that you're signed in to your GitHub account.
Select the most recent build
Scroll down to Artifacts and click on one of the bb-build buttons to download the ZIP file or one of the installer-ARCH-msi files for the installer version, where ARCH is either x64 or arm64.
Extract the file. Be sure that you have the latest version of 7-Zip or your favorite archive manager installed. After that, follow the steps:
SmartScreen may detect that BassBoom and its associated executables may not pass the SmartScreen attestation. If this happens, you'll see the below page:
or Windows 10 cmd.exe
Download the latest release ZIP file from .
Unpack the ZIP archive to any folder of your choice using
Open the
If you've used the bb-build output, follow the last two steps in the section.
If you've used the installer output, follow the last two steps in the section.
BassBoom will not put your PC at risk (except if you downloaded a copy from an unofficial software distributor, or from an unofficial source other than our official GitHub releases found , our Chocolatey page found , and our NuGet page found ). Click on More Info, then click on Run anyways.
