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# What is MediaBoom?

What is this program?

MediaBoom aims to be a cross-platform music and video player that allows you to play almost all music and video files from any hard drive installed on your computer, your phone, or on your tablet.

MediaBoom CLI is a music player that uses the Basolia library as the backend, with Terminaux as the backend for display. It is also a video player that can render video to the terminal.

Additionally, MediaBoom provides you with its own backend library, Basolia, which handles all the heavy-lifting for playing music and video. It also provides a safe API for playing media, getting metadata information, and so on.